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Tessa Morgan

Talent Acquisition Partner
Nashville, United States

Professional Summary

Talent Acquisition Partner with 7+ years building high-volume hiring pipelines across healthcare, retail, and SaaS. Partner with hiring managers to fill 40–80 roles per quarter while cutting time-to-fill and improving offer acceptance. Skilled in structured interviewing, diversity sourcing, and ATS-driven process design.

Employment History

Talent Acquisition Partner
Cumberland Health Network · Nashville, TN
Jan, 2021 · Present
• Own full-cycle recruiting for clinical and corporate roles across 6 facilities; average 55 hires per quarter with 18-day median time-to-fill. • Redesigned intake and structured-interview scorecards with hiring managers; lifted first-year retention of new hires by 14%. • Built sourcer + recruiter playbooks for hard-to-fill nursing and revenue-cycle roles; cut agency spend 28% year over year. • Partner with DEI and People Ops on inclusive slate goals; maintained 45%+ diverse candidate representation on finalist panels. • Administer Greenhouse ATS workflows, offer analytics, and weekly hiring dashboards for CHRO and facility VPs.
Senior Recruiter
Music City Retail Collective · Nashville, TN
Mar, 2018 · Dec, 2020
• Recruited store managers, district leaders, and HQ merchandising roles supporting 90+ locations in TN/KY/AL. • Ran campus and community hiring events that filled 120 seasonal roles in under 3 weeks for peak holiday seasons. • Implemented skills-based screening for frontline roles; reduced early attrition in first 90 days by 11%. • Coached 25 hiring managers on behavioral interviewing and bias-aware selection.
Recruiting Coordinator
Rivergate Staffing Partners · Nashville, TN
Jun, 2015 · Feb, 2018
• Coordinated multi-stage interviews for light industrial and administrative placements averaging 30 openings at a time. • Owned candidate scheduling, reference checks, and onboarding packet prep in Bullhorn. • Improved candidate NPS on process communication from 62 to 81 within one year.

Education

B.S. Human Resource Management
Middle Tennessee State University · Murfreesboro, TN
2011 · 2015
Human Resource Management; graduated 2015.
SHRM-CP (Society for Human Resource Management)
Society for Human Resource Management · Nashville, TN
2019 · 2019
Professional certification earned 2019.
Talent Acquisition Certificate
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management · Nashville, TN
2022 · 2022
Talent Acquisition Certificate, 2022.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting
LinkedIn Recruiter
Diversity sourcing
Structured interviewing
Workforce planning