Gabriella Bowers

As a 'sparring partner', I support our managers and employees in all personnel-related topics and provide daily HR guidance.

• Technical recruiting, coordinating and conducting interviews for various roles. • Planning of corporate events, brainstorming ideas, coordinating logistics, and communicating event details to employees. • Responsible for HR Generalist tasks, including company culture initiatives, policy writing, and improvement to employee experience. • Providing general accounting support, including expense reimbursements and reconciliations.

• Supported HR operational tasks throughout the employee lifecycle (from onboarding to offboarding) • Responsible for application management, including planning and coordinating interviews, and applicant correspondence. • Revised and posted job openings on various platforms. • Assisted in conducting interviews. • Prepared reports to analyze data from the HRIS. • Participated in personnel marketing activities, including maintaining social media accounts. • Organized and supported HR events, such as career fairs, new joiner events, and trainee events. • Coordinated and planned company-wide internal trainings and presentations. • Enrolled new employees in workplace safety instruction. • Assisted in preparation of employee performance reviews. • Updated and maintained employee and applicant data in the HR management tool. • Provided assistance in various HR projects, including learning and development.

• Responsible for co-op and intern recruitment, including revising job descriptions, posting jobs, short-listing candidates, scheduling interviews, conducting reference checks, and writing and extending offers. • Involved in all areas of the employee life cycle. • Utilize the company HRIS to update information and run reports. • Lead HR onboarding presentations for all new employees. • Schedule training and development for employees by creating training schedules, enrolling employees in appropriate courses, and tracking progress. • Participate in the social committee to assist in organizing company-wide and team events.

HRSA connects students to the HR industry by providing them with networking opportunities, agency tours, and workshops. In the external relations role, I: • Secured ~30 professional attendees for HRSA’s Spring Soirée networking event by contacting them through LinkedIn and developing a rapport with them. • Collaborated with 10 other committee members throughout the semester to plan the event. • Created a professional speaker package to outline the benefits of attending the event. • Maintained communication with all professional attendees, including keynote speakers and panelists, and answered their questions in order to highlight expectations and goals. • Adapted to the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, changing the event from in-person to an online feature through the HRSA website and social media pages.

• Tutored students in French Immersion reading, writing, and math, thereby improving their grades. • Responsible for progressive weekly lesson planning and sourcing appropriate material. • Built connection with students and parents based on reliability, tailoring communication based on student needs, delivering results, and managing schedules and payments.

Exchange semester at ESCP Business School in the Master’s in Management program.