I am passionate about helping organizations optimize their recruiting processes.

I knew I could make a bigger impact and be more fulfilled by helping others do what I loved doing.  My typical recruiting roles were quite complex.  Recruiters always have multiple balls in the air and my roles were no different.  In addition to the normal recruiting challenges, I sought out organizations that needed additional help developing processes, efficiencies & systems.  The goal was to help create more productivity and reduce time lost on manual steps.  

These roles helped teach me something very profound.  I loved the industry.  I love the variety and unpredictability of the day.  In one position, the recruitment KPIs were set up to create an unhealthy level of competition within the team.  In time, this competition was hurting our productivity and wearing down the compassion for our teammates.  After months of hard times, we all decide to lean in and solve the disconnect.  We simplified the steps, defined boundaries, created synergy and in 6 months we had our most successful quarter of the company!  Through this experience, I started to realize that so much of the recruiting team’s success was in the foundation of the process. This was a huge moment for me. 

 I learned that I genuinely loved solving that challenge.  In that moment I realized the root of my passion stems from the behind the scenes infrastructure of hiring – specifically the processes and system configurations. I realized I was recruiting just so I could solve the biggest challenges around optimizing the recruiter’s output by streamlining their input.  It became clear to me that recruiting optimization was not just about finding talent.  It was deeper.  Those things are what helps bring a team together, creating synergy and a clear path to create success.  So simple – yet profound.  This was my turning point.

We all have moments like this in our journey when we experience an opportunity for a turning point, and we have a choice to face it head-on or shy away.  I recommend facing it. Sit with it. Journal about it.  My final turning point when I transitioned from recruiting to consulting was when I was working a dual role of recruiter and optimizer.  The organization saw my success in recruiting and felt the time I spent simplifying processes & building strategy from data was better spent just filling jobs.  As with many organizations the “non-money generating” activities are less of a priority.  From my previous experiences, I knew this was detrimental to the organization, TA team as well as my sanity, so I decided to follow my passion and help other organizations see there is another way to recruit.  

Since taking the turn, it has had a profound impact on how I see each challenge I face.   Doing something hard but something you love every day makes the challenges less challenging and successes more fulfilling.