Royal Caribbean Group

Lead Talent Partner, Early Career Recruiting

Business Groups: Leadership roles for HR, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, IT, Medical, and Newbuild

Lead Talent Partner, Leadership Recruiting

Technical Sourcer

Wix.com

Recruiter and Talent Operations for the Sales and Account Management/ Customer Success organization. Led weekly meetings with stakeholders to strategically plan around funnel conversion rate, process length, and source of hire data. Experience in mass hiring (200+ AM growth in <6 months) as well as strategic and executive level searches. Managed hiring events for over 30 sales professionals to decrease our process length by 6 days. Worked with international TA team to research and execute on candidate experience projects. Led referral hiring strategy to increase referrals received by 15% over the past year. Created guidance on internal mobility programs. Advisor to WixRainbow ERG.

Recruiter

Surpassed yearly hiring targets for the world’s most profitable cruise by 150% by placing entry level to senior-level hires across 5 unique departments (Marketing, Revenue, Beverage, Housekeeping, and Shore Excursion Sales). Experienced in sourcing and generating a healthy pipeline through career fairs, LI recruiter, agency partnerships. referrals, and specialty job boards. Used talent market insights and industry benchmarking data to influence decisions within the leadership groups and cross-functional team. Managed data integrity process improvement for Talent Acquisition as the project lead. Partnered with the data analytics team to create recruitment metrics, implement a forecasting system, and gain access to 7 new reports to increase female and diversity hires. 
•	President of Young Professionals Employee Resource Group.
•       Onboarded candidates through monthly new hire ship tours.

Global Recruiter

Aflac

Implemented a strategy of consistent campus presence which led to a doubling of the number of candidates applying for the Sales Intern Program. Recruited over 500 agents throughout the southeast region.
Streamlined evaluation of recruiting metrics such as daily call volume, new applicants, new enrollments, and retention by switching from outdated data collection systems to Excel spreadsheets

Recruiting Manager

Lead Talent Acquisition Partner @ Royal Caribbean Group | Empowering candidates to Job Hunt Like A Recruiter

As a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner at Royal Caribbean Group, I am passionate about helping people find the next piece of the puzzle in their career journey. I lead the recruitment for leadership roles in various business groups, such as HR, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, IT, Medical, and Newbuild. I leverage data analytics, employer branding, and diversity and inclusion strategies to attract and retain top talent in the cruise industry. 

I hold a Master of Science in Management from the University of Florida, where I also completed a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. I have also obtained a Certificate of HR Data Analytics from Cornell University and participated in business and Spanish exchange programs at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and Universidad de Salamanca. I am fluent in English and Spanish and have a Bloomberg Certification and a Certified Gator Professional credential. 

Outside of work, I create content on here to help empower candidates to "Job Hunt Like A Recruiter". I host live webinars, coaching sessions, and provide templates for folks to recharge their search. Check out the link in my bio to learn more!

Nicole Fernandez-Valle

Intuit

The University Recruiter

Tech Path

Founder

Career Doctor

Year Up

Worked on the Employment Placement Program team supporting the full cycle of outcomes of students, interns and recent graduates by facilitating career development classes, organizing events and building hiring partnerships with staffing firms to help student get recruited.

•Partnered with 20+ recruiters and hiring managers to create solutions that meet their hiring needs
•Consistently met outcome goals tracking an average of 75% placement of recent grads within 4 months post graduation using Salesforce and Tableau
•Spearheaded the first ever virtual career fair across the bay area hosting 4 Year Up sites with 250+ interns and 400+ volunteers from across the country

Recruitment Program Manager, Meta

Tipping Point Community

Selected to participate in the Tipping Point Emerging Leaders Fellowship program. The program supports the growth and leadership skills of emerging underrepresented nonprofit leaders. The Fellowship brings together 12 mid-level managers from Tipping Point Community grantee organizations, who hone their own personal leadership style, build organizational management skills and cultivate a group of peers focused on alleviating poverty in the Bay Area.

Emerging Leaders Fellow

Coding Dojo

District Lead Career Services Manager

Career Services Manager

Anyone Can Learn To Code

Job Placement Manager

Jobspring Partners

Technical Recruiter

SF Clubs

Social Media Manager

Probably the ONLY University Recruiter creating kinda funny kinda serious content 😛

*All opinions are my own and all career coaching services I provide are separate from my current employer* 

If you've come this far chances are you're a student, SWE, or job seeker.

Students: I recruiter for SWE + AI, ML, Data Science interns at Intuit

SWEs: Since I'm a University Recruiter I do not recruiter for anything outside of interns or new college grads

Job Seekers: If you'd like to connect please add a note to your request, and send me a message once we connect

Fun Facts:
- I have over 30 Funko Pops
- I one wheel
- I Love Anime
- I have a 2 y/o daughter & a baby boy
- Love to read poetry
- Retired festival goer
- Love Halloween

MY STORY
I struggled alone SO MUCH when I was in college.

I'm a first generation college graduate who went from being homeless to working in a dream job in tech.

I’ve experienced all of the challenges that come along with being first generation including not having mentors or anyone to talk to about what I was going through. I worked multiple jobs while in school and felt like I wasn't good enough for internships so I never applied.

I realize now that mentorship plays such a key role in our journey. It can help us grow to our full potential and it's what helped me break into tech.

But mentorship isn't easily accessible and I believe it's not because people don't want to help others, It's because there are not enough people who have experienced mentorship and know how to give that gift back to others.

That's why my MOTTO is Lift While You Climb.


MY PURPOSE
🎯 My goal is to empower diverse young professionals and first generation college students to break into tech. I believe the key is mentorship.

WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLE
📖 For the past 5+ years I've worked in workforce development as a recruiter, career services, facilitator, and conduit supporting 1000+ diverse talent find employment at top companies.

📖📖 I've had the opportunity to be in multifaceted roles such as a Recruiting Consultant at two respectable coding schools and I’ve worked in the non-profit sector developing young diverse talent by creating pathways for them to be noticed by recruiters and hired at top companies like Meta, PayPal, Amazon, Apple, LinkedIn, Tesla, Lyft. 

🔥 Highlights
-I've built communities with 10k+ job seeker members
-30+ Speaking engagements/ professional development events
-24k+ attendees at my events
-Collaborated with 150+ recruiters, career coaches and hiring managers
-Helped 10+ job seekers land jobs through audio events

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