
Colleen Epp
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Hobsons
Hobsons
Talent Acquisition Specialist
I manage all things related to the recruitment of talent for my organization.
Updating systems and status reports, talking to hiring managers and potential candidates, screening resumes, posting jobs, ensuring we are compliant with government requirements, managing third party staffing agency relationships and contracts, editing job postings, and always looking for ways to make things run more efficiently for the company, managers and candidates that are applying.
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There tends to be a lot of writing in this role that I didn't anticipate. Classes I would have taken had I known this would be my profession are Organizational Communication classes and more writing courses. I find myself sending company wide emails, updates to our intranet system and not to mention job postings. All of these things need to be well thought out with no errors. Also, I would have loved to take a class on social media though it didn't exist when I was in school.
"You should go to school to do something that will make you a lot of money, unlike teaching."