Open To Work
Leslie Franco
Fremont
Summary
HR/ Recruiting Professional with a background in Human Resources Operations, Talent Acquisition and administrative work. Experience working in a corporate environment, supporting a high volume of candidates and new hires in the recruiting and onboarding processes. Team player with excellent time management and problem solving skills. Driven, detail-oriented and able to collaborate with employees of all levels.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Talent Acquisition Coordinator
Recor Medical
06.2023 - 09.2025
- Company Overview: Medical technology company specifically focusing on the Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation (uRDN) System for hypertension management.
- Coordinated recruitment processes, ensuring timely communication with candidates and hiring managers.
- Streamlined onboarding procedures, enhancing new hire experience and reducing time to productivity.
- Managed applicant tracking system, maintaining data integrity and facilitating efficient candidate sourcing.
- Facilitated a smooth onboarding process for new hires by collaborating with HR partners to prepare necessary paperwork and orientation materials.
- Conducted initial screenings to assess candidate qualifications and fit for various roles.
- Supported hiring process by scheduling interviews, conducting reference checks, and completing various paperwork.
- Collaborated with recruiters to improve talent pipeline, ensuring a steady flow of qualified candidates.
- Identified high-quality candidates through targeted research and proactive networking.
- Streamlined application process, improving efficiency in candidate selection and placement.
- Partnered with hiring managers and HR leadership to coordinate and execute a summer internship program, resulting in the successful onboarding of 10 interns across multiple departments.
- Led the end-to-end internship process, including resume screening, sourcing candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter and job boards, scheduling interviews, postings, candidate pipeline management and orientation support.
- Served as a primary point of contact for candidates, ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
- Coordinated high-volume interview scheduling for multiple hiring managers across different time zones.
Talent Acquisition Assistant
Sangamo Therapeutics
06.2022 - 04.2023
- Company Overview: Zinc Finger Genomic Editing Technology
- Worked closely with hiring managers and recruiters to plan, schedule and manage interviews across all departments.
- Successfully hired 40+ employees including Senior Engineers, Scientists and interns.
- Participated in projects to continuously improve HR systems and documentation.
- Proactively managed the HR interview and recruiting calendars, resolving conflicts with quick efficiency.
- Assisted with the recruitment process, ensuring hiring managers and interviewers were following protocol and processes as outlined by the Hiring Process.
- Responsive to candidates, especially during interviews and worked with managers to ensure positive candidate experience.
- Scheduled reference checks between listed references and managers.
- Gathered candidate experience feedback from new hires.
- Served as point-of-contact for all onsite interviews, including greeting candidates, travel arrangements, room reservations, setting up and facilitating virtual interviews and providing tours of the office.
- Responsible for posting jobs across multiple platforms.
- Managed the contracting and purchase order requests for the HR department.
- Built strong partnerships with US-based and international departments to ensure that interviews are executed in an efficient and timely manner.
- Updated HR portals with new employee information, updated information or terminated employee information.
HR Recruiting Coordinator/ HR Operations Coordinator
Adverum Biotechnologies
03.2019 - 09.2021
- Company Overview: Gene Therapy
- Assisted the lead recruiting team by scheduling a high volume of interviews; company doubled its headcount (75 to 150+ employees) in a span of 2 years.
- Supported key HR processes such as I-9 compliance, background checks and employee data management.
- Coordinated recruiting and onboarding related training sessions.
- Cohosted new hire orientation.
- Provided administrative support to key HR programs, including commuter benefits, service awards, employee recognition/gifts, and wellness program.
- Worked with the Payroll team to ensure new hires were paid according to their start dates and received any relocation/signing bonuses.
- Owned new hire onboarding activities, including maintaining employee personnel files, initiating and reviewing background checks, processing new hires through HR systems, all while ensuring compliance with processes and policies.
- Maintained data integrity by accurate data entry into a number of HR systems such as Bamboo HR, Uber, LinkedIn, SmartStart Employment Screening and HireRight.
- Coordinated employee termination process by preparing required documentation, updating files, internal tracker and checklist.
- Provided content for HR marketing and communications, including HR newsletter, emails and company intranet.
- Led engagement initiatives, such as happy hours, employee gifting, new hire swag orders and employee recognition.
- Scheduled candidate interviews for the R&D and G&A functions, team debriefs and reference calls.
- Arranged travel for candidates as needed.
Education
De Anza College
Cupertino, CASkills
- Outlook 365
- Paycor
- Concur
- Lever
- Workday
- MS Teams
- Coupa
- Docusign
- Greenhouse
- Zoom
- BambooHR
- HireRight
- Oracle
- AdobeSign
- Novatus
- LinkedIn Recruiter
Timeline
Senior Talent Acquisition Coordinator
Recor Medical
06.2023 - 09.2025
Talent Acquisition Assistant
Sangamo Therapeutics
06.2022 - 04.2023
HR Recruiting Coordinator/ HR Operations Coordinator
Adverum Biotechnologies
03.2019 - 09.2021
De Anza College