Candice Cornelissen

• Maintained human resources regulatory compliance with local, state and federal laws.
• Coordinated and engaged with leadership in planning and organizing calendars, events and activities.
• Directed job fairs to bring in local talent for long term and seasonal positions.
• Coordinated work activities for HR managers, specialists and recruiting agents.
• Participated at strategic and operational level to develop and strengthen human resources services, relationships and mission.
• Liaised between multiple business divisions to improve communications.
• Collaborated with stakeholders across organization to maintain proper flow of communication and execution of planned initiatives and projects.
• Interviewed potential hires, negotiated salaries and benefits and performed reference checks.
• Structured compensation and benefits according to market conditions and budget demands.
• Followed programs closely to assess effectiveness and make proactive changes to meet changing demands.
• Directed hiring and onboarding programs for new employees.
• Managed other HR staff and oversaw completion of tasks and initiatives.
• Conducted investigations and assisted with handling employee complaints involving Affirmative Action and EEOC to promote equitable workplace.
• Educated employees on company policy and kept employee handbook current.
• Spearheaded shared governance and collaboration on employee relations, HR administration, collective bargaining agreements and related HR topics.
• Evaluated human resources structure and plan for continual improvement and offered individuals professional and personal growth opportunities.
• Processed employee claims involving performance issues and harassment.
• Maintained optimal staffing levels by tracking vacancies and initiating recruitment and interview processes to identify qualified candidates.
• Directed job fairs to bring in local talent for long term and seasonal positions.
• Met with employees annually for progress reviews and performance assessments.
• Provided updates on HR policy changes to employees to satisfy compliance and state laws.
• Coordinated work activities for HR managers, specialists and recruiting agents.
• Developed succession plans and promotion paths for staff.
• Fostered cross-functional relationships to connect managers and employees and improve overall efficiency.
• Conducted company-wide town hall meetings to convey updates.
• Recommended appropriate resolutions to employee relations concerns and handled disciplinary issues and investigations of misconduct.
• Established critical strategic partnerships with several private equity agencies to provide full HR services to portfolio companies.
• Designed robust compensation and benefits packages to attract top employees.
• Wrote employee manual to cover company policies, disciplinary procedures, code of conduct and benefits information.
• Performed administrative and customer service functions by responding to general employee inquiries, addressing employee relations issues and scheduling meetings.
• Coordinated and engaged with leadership in planning and organizing calendars, events and activities.
• Designed and implemented region-wide recruitment, behavior-based interviewing and skill matching procedure, decreasing employee turnover.
• Short-term insurance for groupschemes
• Administration of all claims and daily updates
• Data processing
• Obtain healthy clent and stakeholder relationship via effective communication

• Drawing up letters and faxes
• Controlling of reports and statements during and after the Forensic Mortuary Process
• Completing of chain statements for court cases
• Receives phone calls and takes messages
• Request and arrange Pauper Burials for families in financial constrains and unknown deceased persons
• Liaising with different Municipalities to arrange Pauper Burials
• Responsible for Fingerprints and results of the unknown deceased persons at Paarl facility
• Enquire about unidentified bodies within 7 days or immediately after body was received
• Acting Facility Manager in the absence thereof
• Performing all tasks of the facility manager as delegated by him
• Part of Recruitment and Selection Process
• Short listing of applicants
• Appointing marks to applicants according to their CV
• Interview of selected candidates
• Appointing marks to applicants during interview according to their performance
• Appointing successful candidate
• Completion of Overtime and Standby Claim Forms, leave and IOD Forms
• Completing WCA forms
• Supporting and advising management on proper policies and procedures to deliver excellent staff experience
• Managing succession plans and employee relations
• Labour relations
• Personnel management
• Effective communication with regards to employment regulations, policies and procedures
• Handling of complaints
• Maintain confidential filing
• Assisting line manager with all functions
• Personnel Training
• Finance & Supply Chain Management:
• Knowledge of the PFMA
• Sound Knowledge of the Treasury Regulations
• Knowledge of Public Finance
• Knowledge of Logis
• Banking of funds
• Appointed as a cashier by Head of Department of Health
• Monthly Statistics:
• Bodies received
• Postmortem completion
• Handing over of bodies to Undertakers
• Vehicles Used
• Kilometers travelled for body collection
• Unidentified Bodies
• Unknown Corpses
• Pauper Burials
• Response Time
• Leave Taken, etc
• Autopsies
• View and Grants
• Cases opened
• Days on standby
• Leave taken
• Stock & Stores:
• Dissecting, cleaning materials and stationary storerooms
• Issued stock to staff members and ensure that all stock is signed for:
• Forensic Officers on Standby weekly (body bags, gloves, dissecting equipment and airtime for their standby phone)
• Issued cleaning materials to our General Assistant
• Stock taking on a monthly basis
• Kept record of all stock in stores on a spreadsheet as well as hard copy
• Kept record of all receipt of stock handed over to staff
• Archives
• File dockets in archives as needed
• Assets
• Signed off Assets that were moved to other facilities
• Vehicles:
• Compilation of files for all GG Vehicles and facilities with members of the Region (Created files myself as well as Spreadsheet for all info regarding Drivers and Vehicles)
• Verifying of Log Sheets
• Compilation of Log Sheets for the Control Transport Officer
• Issuing of Trip Authorities to members of Paarl facility
• Issuing of vehicle and keys to designated drivers
• Record keeping of Services on GG Vehicles
• Taking GG Vehicles for services
• Arranging repairs on GG Vehicles
• Taking GG Vehicles for repairs
• Collection of Licenses
• Requesting of Licenses from GMT
• Collection of new vehicles at GMT
• Allocating of vehicles within the Region
• Safety
• Health and Safety:
• Health and Safety Course done
• Ensure laboratory Safety
• Inform the Pathologist of cases that are a health risk for all who’s handling the body, i.e
• Deadly diseases, viruses
• Keep my work area clean and safe for myself and colleagues
• Make sure equipment is in a working order
• Do all my functions according to the Health and Safety Policy and Standard Operating Procedures
• No deviations from the SOP’s
• Report faulty and broken equipment
• I request stock from the stores to assist with my daily tasks
• Report health and safety risks to the OHS Representative, immediate supervisor and/or Facility Manager
• Completing WCA forms for injuries on duty
• Reporting incidents in the Occurrence Book
• Reporting injuries to the OHS representative, immediate supervisor and/ or facility manager
• Give ideas and suggestions on how to keep safe in the laboratory
• Taking Health and Safety as my own responsibility
• Assist Investigating officers visiting our laboratory with their protective clothing
• Keep unauthorized people out of areas they aren’t authorized to go
• Exercise may right to a safe work environment
• Administration duties:
• Answering telephones
• Handling of enquiries pertaining to cases
• Customer Service
• Making copies
• Sending of faxes
• Receiving of faxes
• Dealing with Clients and Stakeholders
• Sending out letters to Investigating Officers regarding the outcome of their cases
• Writing of Affidavits for Court
• Safekeeping of confidential documentation
• Filing dockets of closed cases
• Typing of Reports
• Typing of Post Mortem Reports making use of a Dictaphone
• Typing of Histological Reports
• Typing of Bones Reports
• Typing of documentation with regards to Medico- Legal Enquiries
• Typing of Scene attendance reports
• Keeping track of laboratory reports
• Transporting blood and histology samples to laboratory

• Operational:
• Ensuring a safe work environment
• Reporting of injuries
• Recovery of, storage and processing of deceased information, exhibits and property of incident scenes
• Collection and dispatching of exhibits eg
• Blood for alcohol analysis at the Forensic Chemistry lab in Woodstock and DNA analysis at the SAPS Biology Unit in Delft and Ballistics Unit in Somerset West
• Safekeeping of projectiles for Ballistic analysis in a safe, lockable place until collected by investigators
• Assisting with training for new members on the collection, dissection and identification of bodies
• Taking fingerprints of unknown deceased persons on a SAPS 91(a) and sending it to Paarl Local Criminal Record Center (LCRC) and Pretoria
• Dissecting of corpses
• Performing Specialized Dissecting Techniques; Removal of the Spinal Cord, Neck Dissection, Murder-Rape Cases and Removal of the Pituitary Gland- Hypophysis
• Removing and weighing of organs
• Suturing of corpses
• Washing the Bodies after autopsies
• Cleaning of lab equipment
• Reporting of faulty and broken equipment
• Maintenance of laundry- counting and packing it away on its dedicated area
• Collecting bodies on crime scenes
• Performing Death Scene Investigation
• Transporting of corpses to the facility
• Safeguarding of corpses and store in a cooling fridge
• Assist the Pathologist with taking of samples from corpses, eg
• Blood, Histology, Toxicology and Sexual Assault Kits
• Assist the Pathologist with Rapid Tests within the Dissecting Room: HIV Tests, Pregnancy Tests and Drug Screen Tests
• Managing and administering the personnel within the dissecting department
• Photographing of crime scenes
• Photographing of deceased persons
• Assisting neighboring facilities with dissections
• Conducting and maintaining Lab
• Assisting the Forensic Pathologist with autopsies through performing specialized dissecting techniques and all laboratory related duties; in order to include or exclude a suspect and determine the cause of death
• Delivering Expert Witness Testimony regarding evidence in court and working hand- in- hand with all other stakeholders to serve the Public
• Efficient support to my manager and all relevant Parties
• Administrative:
• Ensuring Office Security
• Frontline Receptionist and switchboard operator (Keeping the reception area neat and welcoming)
• Identify call needs and transferring calls to correct extensions
• Taking messages
• Handling enquiries
• Data Controlling of my own cases and colleagues
• Ensure that all information is on the FPS System
• Ensure that all information is in the Registers
• Ensure that all information is correct
• Obtain case numbers
• Enquiries concerning case numbers
• Prioritizing work as Urgent and Important or Both
• Receive, send, and sort e-mails
• Process & type documents in relation to functional activities
• Ensure an effective flow of information and documentation
• Receive & dispatch files, as well as file documents in applicable files
• Take minutes during staff meetings, & process thereafter
• Typing Minutes and Agendas
• Control access to all files & documentation, as well as ensure safekeeping thereof
• File identification of deceased documentation
• Numerical and alphabetical filing
• Interview bereaved family members and relatives
• Dispose of property to next of kin in the prescribed manner
• Hand over deceased person’s necessary documentation to funeral undertakers and next of kin
• Maintain “Dead-Line” system ensuring documents are dealt with effectively before date of expiry
• Liaise with Public and other Stakeholders
• Admin Review of dockets
• Compiling of Standby List
• Case Capturing on the FPS system
• Scheduling shifts on the FPS System
• Assign doctors to cases on the FPS System
• Scanning of dockets on Livelik
• Processing data on Livelink
• Recording information on Livelink
• Human

* Coordinated and collaborated with other faculty members during lesson plan development.
* Communicated with students and parents regarding academic progress, assignments, and behavior.
* Encouraged student interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and participation in middle and high school national science competitions.
* Demonstrated positive and effective classroom management skills.
* Planned, prepared, and taught lesson plans, giving students individual support.
* Collaborated with other teachers to integrate science into other curricula.
* Cultivated positive relationships with students, parents and staff to optimize instruction and support learning outcomes.
* Supported student comprehension of scientific principles through individualized instruction.
* Delivered interactive lessons to help students comprehend complex concepts.
* Provided individualized feedback to support student learning and development.
* Used exams and standardized assessment tools to measure student progress.
* Utilized diverse instructional approaches to accommodate different learning styles.
* Assessed and evaluated student performance through use of standardized testing.
* Established and maintained professional relationships with students, staff, parents and community members.
* Supported students in development of skills and strategies to become independent and successful learners.
* Promoted culture of inclusion, respect and collaboration in classroom.
* Produced engaging lesson plans and activities to help students master learning objectives.
* Encouraged students to take active role in learning and academic success.