Vanessa Ruiz

Cypress, TX 77433
(832) 555-8888 | vane000@email.com

OBJECTIVE
Highly motivated student, seeking a Human Resource internship position at XXX where I can apply my organizational,
logical, and analytical skills while working for the company dedicatedly.

EDUCATION
College of Technology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas December 2021
Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Development
Cumulative GPA: 3.6

EXPERIENCE
Human Resource Intern at Perry Homes June 2019 – August 2019
 Implement effective HR policies to ensure all practices are in compliance with labor and employment regulations.
 Increased employee retention above 90% by rigorously maintaining a positive work environment.
 Develop targeted outreach recruitment programs to recruit more minorities and meet affirmative action
requirements.
 Created a website with an embedded database and FTP functionality to enable online recruitment for the
organization and reducing recruitment costs by 10%.
 Develop user friendly application forms and questionnaires to be used by the organization during staff recruitment
and interviewing.
 Arbitrate labor disputes in collaboration with the legal department.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Training and Development Strategies Fall-2019
University of Houston
 Assigned as project team leader. Guided and motivated a group of 4 students by setting weekly meetings,
developing strategies and carefully reviewing the team ideas to make the final decisions.
 Simulated a bicycle business plan and competed against other teams in maximizing training time and productivity.
 Applied marketing and business concepts such as recruiting and training salespeople, assigning new sales territories,
selecting strategy and development plans.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Transfer Excellence Scholarship from University of Houston 2019

ACTIVITIES
Lone Star Study in Africa program-Volunteer
Houston Food Bank, Volunteer 2019
Shell Future Business Leader Summit, Participant 2019
Covenant House Texas, Volunteer 2019
Finance Association (FA), Member Spring 2019 - Present
American Cancer Society, Fundraiser for Relay for Life Event 2018
Children with Down Syndrome (Mexico), 7k Run Participant 2015
March of Dimes (Houston), 8k Run Participant 2014

SKILLS
Bilingual: English, Spanish
Microsoft Excel (Excel Tables, Pivot Tables, Lookup Functions, Logical Functions), Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access,
SharePoint, MS-DOS (Trueline).