Donna-Marie Burrell

• Collaborate with hiring managers to assess current and future recruitment needs.
• Facilitate full recruitment lifecycle, enhancing candidate and stakeholder experiences.
• Advise hiring managers on sourcing, interviewing, and equitable selection processes.
• Sourcing high-quality candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and networks.
• Guide candidates through compliance and onboarding processes, ensuring accurate documentation completion.
• Generate employment contracts and onboarding materials for new hires, ensuring clarity and accuracy.

Achievements

• Currently contributing to the creation of Afford’s Employer Value Proposition (EVP) to strengthen candidate engagement and enhance employer brand visibility.
• Recognised as a Gallop Engagement Champion, actively promoting a culture of engagement by supporting managers and teams in understanding and applying Gallup’s engagement principles.
• Was honored to be featured on the front cover of our Values in Action Handbook, showcasing my dedication to living and promoting the company’s core values.

• Consulting with hiring manager to ascertain their specific recruitment needs
• Responsible for writing and posting advertisements on appropriate job boards
• Screening and sharing candidates with hiring managers
• Book interviews for shortlisted candidates
• Conduct phone, video and/or face to face interviews
• Coordinate all pre-employment checks
• Collection and filing of new employee paperwork
• Generating new Contracts
• Answer day to day recruitment enquiries
• Setting up new starters in the payroll system
• Generate regular reports for hiring managers
• Built solid rapport and trust with Stake holders
• Positively contributed to increases in candidate experience

• Liaising and influencing hiring managers to determine recruitment needs
• Preparing, sourcing, screening, presenting, candidates, selecting and hiring new recruits (metro and regional)
• Participation in job ad design and placements
• All aspects of on-boarding new starters
• Facilitating face to face fortnightly inductions
• Liaising with and supporting new community workers in metro and regional areas
• Regular business reporting
• Issuing contracts and new hire system data entry and management
• 2 years of end to end high volume recruitment
• Campaign resulting in 400% more hires than previous campaigns
• Receiving “Gold Dove” – Recognition of Leadership/Excellence Award

• Leading a team of community workers
• Facilitating community worker meetings
• Approving and processing leave applications, changes in availability and contracts
• Providing/assisting with levels of in house training
• Inspiring community workers to provide the highest level of care to our vulnerable clients
• Communicating strategies to assist workers dealing with difficult client behaviours
• “Values in Action” Award

• Providing personal care, domestic assistance, respite, social support, palliative care, transport and medication services to home based clients
• Liaising with coordinators and other service providers to ensure excellent and consistent care of clients
• Providing regular and comprehensive feedback re client services
• Selected to coach through buddy shifts for new starters
• Promoted to Senior community worker to provide support and training
• Receiving four Silver Dove Awards for “Excellence” and “Values in Action”