Nicole (Nicki) Blasi

Managed the full recruitment cycle across a variety of teams, including technical and corporate roles, ensuring we attracted and hired top talent. I led key initiatives in employer branding, diversity hiring, and process optimization while driving recruitment best practices, providing interview training, and enhancing the candidate experience Key Achievements: - Technical and Corporate Recruitment: Conducted phone screens and managed roles simultaneously across GTM, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, IT, Finance, Operations, and HR, utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter and Interseller for proactive sourcing and engagement. - Employer Branding Partnership Project: Led Foursquare’s partnership with BuiltIn to create employer branding content, which resulted in a 140% increase in job board views and a 13.8% rise in applications. - Diversity Hiring Strategy & Partnership: Spearheaded a partnership with Microsoft Software & Systems Academy (MSSA) to enhance veteran diversity, integrating diversity initiatives into recruiting processes and resulting in a 15% increase in diverse candidates. - Training Program Development: Developed and delivered behavioral interview training for 60+ interviewers, enhancing interview quality and candidate assessments. - Standardized Recruiting and Onboarding: Created a recruiting process and team onboarding guide, standardizing best practices across the People Team of 35, improving consistency and efficiency. - Referral Program Management: Launched a new recruiting referral program for 425+ employees, resulting in a 40% increase in internal referrals and streamlining the referral process. - Candidate Experience Documentation Project: Led the creation of a comprehensive document outlining role-specific interview processes and employee benefits, improving candidate experience and retention.

Managed scheduling, coordinating interviews, and optimized recruitment processes for the recruiting team. I worked cross-functionally to improve communication, streamline workflows, and ensure smooth transitions, including an HR system migration and process improvements across recruiting operations. Key Achievements: - Scheduling and Coordination: Coordinated over 1,800 interviews across corporate, technical, and Serbia recruiting teams, maintaining an efficient recruiting process for roles at all levels. - Training Program Development and Implementation: Designed and led onboarding training sessions for new Recruiting Coordinators, reducing training time by 25% and increasing onboarding effectiveness. - HR System Transition Management: Played a key role in transitioning from BambooHR to Workday, overseeing the migration of documents and records for 425+ employees, ensuring data confidentiality. - Process Improvement & Communication Enhancement: Led a project to redesign candidate email resources and communication templates in Prelude and Greenhouse, reducing response time by 48 hours and enhancing the overall candidate experience. - Visa Management & Process Optimization: Managed visa-related processes with Fragomen, ensuring compliance and improving recruitment workflow efficiency. - Cross-Functional Scheduling & Event Planning: Coordinated complex scheduling for internal/external meetings, interviews, offsites, and team-building events, working across global time zones.

Facilitated high-volume scheduling for candidates across multiple time zones, collaborated with recruiters and hiring teams to optimize interview processes, and played a key role in streamlining onboarding. My focus was to improve operational efficiency, enhance candidate experience, and ensure smooth interview logistics within the Marketplace Recruiting team. Key Achievements: - Interview Scheduling & Onboarding: Coordinated interviews across multiple time zones, optimizing scheduling processes to improve interview velocity and candidate experience. - Strategic Sprint Planning and Prioritization: Successfully managed multiple hiring sprints and deadlines, resulting in a 30% increase in operational efficiency by prioritizing effectively and maintaining meticulous attention to detail. - Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with recruiters and executive assistants to manage high-level candidate schedules, ensuring alignment across departments. - Enhanced Interview Practices: Led pre-brief meetings with hiring managers and interviewers to standardize best practices, improving interview effectiveness and candidate experience. - Onboarding & Training Leadership: Onboarded new Recruiting Coordinators, developing training materials and reducing ramp-up time by 40%.