As a true business partner, transformed HR staffing and onboarding functions from cost center into primary driver of bottom line business improvement. Prevented and resolved employee performance and retention issues that often arise in a turbulent economy of reduced staffing and increased workloads. By maximizing ROI from employee overhead, a major business expense, enabled profit-minded companies to boost employee productivity, build leadership, slash costs and improve operational capability. Utilized Oracle Taleo Enterprise cloud-based recruitment, employee performance, learning, development, compensation and talent management software to offer enhanced level of candidate and employee insight. Facilitated management of risk, finance and technology-related HR issues. Developed tracking and reporting tools. Established recruiting strategies to meet business and resourcing team goals. Particularly effective in creating business cultures that help build the positive customer experience that drives business growth and success.

1. GILDA SMITH NEWMAN, SHRM
West Babylon, NY 631-375-1465 gnewman29@optonline.net
DIRECTOR / MANAGER - TALENT ACQUISITION
Recruiting / Onboarding / Program Design / Training & Development / Performance Management
Retention / Employee Relations / Acquisition Integration / Compliance / HRIS / Negotiation
As a true business partner, transformed HR staffing and onboarding functions from cost center into primary driver of
bottom line business improvement. Prevented and resolved employee performance and retention issues that often
arise in a turbulent economy of reduced staffing and increased workloads.
By maximizing ROI from employee overhead, a major business expense, enabled profit-minded companies to
boost employee productivity, build leadership, slash costs and improve operational capability.
Utilized Oracle Taleo Enterprise cloud-based recruitment, employee performance, learning, development,
compensation and talent management software to offer enhanced level of candidate and employee insight.
Facilitated management of risk, finance and technology-related HR issues. Developed tracking and reporting tools.
Established recruiting strategies to meet business and resourcing team goals.
Particularly effective in creating business cultures that help build the positive customer experience that drives
business growth and success. Skilled in:
 Aligning HR and business goals
 Recruiting and onboarding new team additions
 Matching employees with jobs and career paths
MA in Human Resources Management and post-grad work in Organizational Development from New School
University. BS in Sociology from Hunter College.
SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
Led successful diversity hiring and training. Introduced tools and training that enabled legally blind candidates
to succeed as Customer Service Representatives with Time Warner. Facilitated successful re-entry into work force
as Time Warner Customer Service Representatives of previously incarcerated women.
Expanded management team diversity. Broadened Amalgamated Insurance management training opportunities.
Worked actively with historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and other schools. Developed program’s
framework, timelines, curriculum and compensation plans. Successfully launched initiative within six months.
Developed company’s new US organizational structure. With the creation of a new US-focused implementation
team, launched a high urgency Adecco initiative that quickly structured compensation and benefit plans, and
defined IT’s role in the new unit. Met 45-day deadline to meet budgetary and compensation plan requirements.
Facilitated new business culture. Enabled creation of more robust sales focus at TD Bank. Maintained
competitively powerful "retail-tainment” “WOW!” culture of predecessor bank to build business by surprising and
delighting customers. Led team in 1559 hires. Met 100% of financial service rep hiring and licensing goals.
CAREER SUMMARY

2. HR Resourcing Project Manager, Barclays Bank, 2015. Undertook limited term assignment to apply Dodd-Frank
Act stress testing (DFAST) in complement with the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR)
process, ensuring that the bank’s new Intermediate Holding Company for the Americas was in alignment
with federal risk management requirements for resourcing. Led initiative to get relevant information systems
into compliance.
VP Talent Acquisition Management, TD Bank, 2012 to 2014. Led team of six recruiters for one of the ten largest
banks in the US, with 26,000 employees. Planned and directed high-volume recruiting in an aggressively
growing market with 171 retail banking store fronts in Long Island, suburban New York and northern New
Jersey.
Director / HR Business Partner, Adecco US, 2007 to 2012. Provided strategic employee issue guidance to client
business leaders for the world’s largest provider of HR solutions, and winner of Total Cost of Ownership
(TCOOTM) Supplier Award. Offered business outcome-focused consulting services through Adecco’s
Center of Excellence.
HR Manager, Amalgamated Insurance Company, 2005 to 2007. Led diversity initiatives, employee programs,
performance management, employee relations, and training / orientation / onboarding programs. Played active role
in union negotiations. Headed team of five.
Prior: Recruiter with Time Warner Cable.