ASHLEY SLOCUM

Talent Acquisition - TA Center of Excellence

Business Planning

Cross-functional collaboration across TA teams, business partners, and finance to ensure the alignment of recruitment efforts with overall organizational strategy.

• Work with TA Leadership Team to define annual goals. Oversee goal tracking and generate quarterly progress reports.
• Colloborate with leaders to develop the FY25 annual operating plan (AOP) and budget, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategy.
• Track headcount, generated monthly reports on workforce changes, and forecast hiring needs to support workforce planning.

Communications

Ensure the organization stays informed, aligned, and engaged.

• Lead global communications for an organization of 300+ employees, managing SharePoint and Viva Engage platforms. Develop and distribute key updates via a biweekly global newsletter.
• Coordinate, develope content, create presentations, and facilitate global org-wide meetings on a quarterly basis.
• Develop decks and content for regional and team-specific training sessions on a regular basis.

Operations

Skilled in improving TA processes for faster time-to-hire, reducing operational bottlenecks, and ensuring streamlined operations.

• Manage the change request intake process and review JIRA tickets for accuracy before submission to production.
• Contributed to a global project focused on consolidating offer letters for a new applicant tracking system (ATS).
• Ongoing collaboration in the development of a TA "Optimization Lab," using Agile methodology to improve and refine recruitment processes, strategies, and technologies.

• Supported in developing Visa's benefit education strategy.
• Researched and identified opportunities to improve the communication of benefits and wellbeing initiatives to new hires.
• Won first place in Visa’s Consult for Change Challenge by creating a social media campaign for a nonprofit.

• Assisted in expanding and improving the new hire onboarding program
• Created various internal surveys, prepared company communications, managed internal SharePoint site.
• Involved in the Aon United Intern Project, focusing on the future of wellbeing