Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

Universidad Latina de Panamá

Centennial College

Senior Business Recruiter at DoorDash

Responsible for overseeing all Canadian and USA recruitment.

Roles include:

IT/Engineering
Sales/Business Development
G&A
Marketing

automotiveMastermind Inc.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Managing the recruitment team of East Canada

CanMar Recruitment

Recruitment Practice Lead - East Canada 

Your Leading Global Cannabis Recruitment Firm

CanMar Recruitment is uniquely positioned to meet the rising demand for jobs in the global cannabis industry. At CanMar, we understand that for your business to succeed, you need top-quality staff. Our team of cannabis industry recruitment partners use strategies based on a targeted and personalized approach, specific to your needs. We specialize in placing top-quality individuals in a variety of roles across the legalized cannabis sector.     CanMar Recruitment is dedicated to providing staffing and business solutions for Canada’s cannabis industry. With a keen understanding of the current Canadian cannabis market, CanMar helps both employers and job seekers navigate the job market.

Recruitment Partner

DoorDash

Senior Business Recruiter

Our mission is to disrupt the status quo by helping organizations successfully implement flexible recruitment strategies. Blend produces tangible results by providing innovative RPO support to our client's outreach strategies. Ask us how we can bring value to your organization through cost savings and our world-class support; or visit our website @ www.blend-hrm.com.

Blend HRM Inc

Senior Recruiter

Sister company to CanMar Recruitment- helped assist in their GTA recruitment ramp up project

bloo Recruitment

Senior Recruitment Partner 

•	Built the entire truMedic road show teams from start up of truMedic USA+ Canada during their transition to move internally, previously worked with third party marketing companies.
•	Recruiting and hiring Brand Ambassadors/Sales Representative’s to promote and sell truMedic massagers inside Costco locations in a Kiosk set up.
•	Staffing on a monthly basis of 20 different states/province’s on average of 50-80 reps per month.
•	Weekly/Monthly goals exceeded on a regular basis.
•	Managing and overseeing a team of 3 recruiters, projections and requisitions given weekly.
•	Running/scheduling team meetings between Recruitment and Logistics.
•	Directly reporting to the Director and VP of truCore Inc.

truMedic

Talent Aquisition Manager

Up Fundraising

Team Lead, Senior Recruiter 

Recruiting within Canada and US to hunt for full time/part time employees in various roles across North America: sales-credit card sales, promotional representatives, cable and internet services, door to door fundraisers, fundraising activist, animal welfare advocates, and environmental canvassers.

Major clients include: 

Sales: Bell Canada, Direct TV, Walmart, AMEX, BMO, truMedic, MBNA, Primus.

Fundraising:
Save the Children, ASPCA, The Nature Conservancy, Christian Blind Mission, Canadian Blood Services, Canadian Red Cross, St Michael's Hospital, Sunnybrook Hospital.

On boarding processes-contracts, background checks, file completion, scheduling orientations and training's for all new hires. Full cycle recruitment, job postings, head-hunting, prescreens, in person interviews, phone screens/interviews, completing contracts, file entering, shift scheduling, completing registrations application requirements (copies of photo IDs, SIN/SSN, permits)

Senior Recruitment Consultant

•	Full cycle recruitment for general labour positions within HBC distribution warehouses, Lead the Syrian refugee employment project.
•	Face to face interviews, application process assistance, distribution of weekly pay cheques, general human resource admin.

Hudson's Bay Company

Senior Recruitment Specialist (Contract)

Taught Basic English classes for the Political Party PRI -Government of Mexico. Worked directly with the Director of Human Resources for the President. Students ranged from ages 25-65 and a total class on a daily basis of 16.

Centennial College International Education Centre

English Language Teacher-PRI Political Party

Instructing and overseeing a class of 21 students, in grade 5 ages 10-11. Lesson planning and evaluating students’ performance, behavior (redirecting behavior), and social development. E learning programs used on a daily basis RAZ KIDS/REN WEB. Plan and conduct activities, maintain a safe comfortable environment for the students.

Agencia Panamá Pacífico

Grade 5 Homeroom Teacher

Taught English at a Corporate level B2C, working with Project Managers and CEO's of successful international companies as well Embassy training throughout Panama City. 

Managed out private 1 on 1 lessons with the Canadian Embassy.

Corporate Business English Teacher-Freelance

Liaison between schools (Elementary to University) to attend Centennial College for English classes and programs offered to Panamanian students to study in Toronto, Ontario.

Attending face to face presentations and meetings with the school Directors, recruiting students through seminars.

Attend job fairs at school campuses.

International Student Recruiter-Open Conract

• Managed a team of 12 Recruiters in the Toronto office location.
• Delivering ultimate results for the head office by recruiting skilled and qualified candidates to fill the managerial roles within the company nationwide.
• Create job advertisements, open the head office pipelines and build a thorough search engine in order to schedule in interviews and interview successful candidates.
• Reporting to the Recruitment Manager and Director of Human Resources on a daily basis, completing reports and filling out on line documents in order to track success record.
• Working close within the recruitment team, managing out weekly meetings, providing support for all regions in need of assistance.
• Setting up candidate profiles, scheduling face to face interviews located at the Head Office, reporting with the Account Manager.

GTA Program Coordinator
• Managing out a Recruitment Coordinator in order to achieve and deliver ultimate results for the programs within our most faced past projects.
• Overseeing 3 different programs with the company's most well-known clients.
• Responsible for weekly meetings with the Recruiter that works within the GTA region, helping vamp the program by providing support and delivering it to the management team.
• Assisting with the back end work such as sourcing, meetings with the managers of the programs, scheduling in interviews.

Kognitive Marketing

Corporate Recruiter

• Created job advertisements/postings, sourcing on all means of online avenues such as Government sites, school boards, and social media, in order to create visibility through different recruitment channels.
• Screen resumes and profile potential qualified candidates, lead candidates through the recruitment process by providing screening calls to help better match suitable applicants to job vacancies, then conducting Skype interviews.
• Proven track record of exceeding my weekly targets by continuous successful recruitment procedures; all postings are up dated daily/weekly, daily engagement with the Operations team as well as clientele.

New Hire Coordinator
• Congratulating the successful candidates of their new employment, by placing calls and sending over emails.
• Sending over NHP's for reps to fill out and email back.

Quality Control Officer- Bank of Montreal
• Daily review of applications completed by representatives across Canada for Bank of Montreal (BMO).
• Thoroughly screening applications making sure every field is filled in correctly.
• Tracking the completed applications from representatives by inputting them on the system using Microsoft Excel..
• Reporting to the Chief Executive of the BMO program, daily and weekly updates in regards to the amount of applications as well as the count of chargebacks.


Account Coodinator- Bank of Montreal
• Working with our largest client BMO, reviewing files for new employees and submitting them to the correct department.
• Organizing all files for hundreds of employees hire packages, by putting together employee's personal packages including contract agreement, diligently making sure all photo ID's are all eligible and clear, then moving the files over for police reference checks.
• Worked alongside KROLL in order to have new employee's files reviewed by the RCMP in order to have a thorough and complete reference check.

Recruitment Coordinator/New Hire Coordinator/Quality Control/BMO Account Coordinator

Fundader

English Teacher

• Down sized candidates by thoroughly screening resumes of those qualified for the hiring positions.
• Placed daily calls, provided candidates with a good understanding of potential employment opportunities.
• Scheduled interviews for head office.

Jessica Chester