Jake Powell is a Recruiter at Bloomberg Philanthropies. He is proficient in Chinese. Colleagues describe him as "Jake is one of the best recruiters I have ever had the opportunity to work with and manage. Jake and I worked together on the Leadership Recruitment Team at The Trevor Project which was a new team under the recruitment function at the organization. Jake, immediately upon joining the team hit the ground running, building trusting relationships with executive hiring managers, providing recruitment and hiring recommendations, pivoting quickly and efficiently with frequent organizational priority shifts, and managing complex executive recruits and communications between executive hiring teams. Jake also has incredible recruitment instincts and is, by nature, a problem solver. When Jake would face a challenge they would always bring the challenge to my attention and then a few possible solutions they had already thought up, looking more for thought partnership than anything else. Every time the solution Jake was leaning towards was the best approach to take in the end. Jake managed up with confidence and tact and became a beloved and respected resource amongst the executives they worked with at the organization. Jake can excel in recruiting at a high volume and fast pace but is also an excellent strategic thinker and innovator, frequently providing recommendations for recruitment improvements at the organization such as proposing a new internal recruitment process for existing staff. They are a wonderful recruitment professional and I would be so lucky to work with recruiters like Jake in the future and any recruitment function at an organization would be lucky to have a resource like Jake on their team." and "I worked with Jake for over six months at The Trevor Project, and they were the recruiter I worked with directly while interviewing for a very niche role within the organization. In November 2021, Jake reached out to me on LinkedIn and offered to meet regarding a position at Trevor. I was very impressed by Jake's understanding of the needs of the position, as it required very specific experience and skills that they were able to identify on my profile. Jake managed the interview process with many stakeholders very efficiently. Additionally, they checked in with me often and I felt they sincerely cared about my experience as a candidate. While I ultimately wasn't selected for the role, the professionalism and compassion that Jake exhibited during the interview process gave me the confidence to re-apply for a different position at the organization. I knew that, if Trevor employed people like Jake, that was a place I definitely wanted to work. In my experience, inspiring job applicants in this way is very rare but very needed, especially in today's job market. If not for Jake, I would have walked away after being rejected. Thanks to them, I pressed on, and accepted an offer for another position at Trevor just three months later. I wish every job candidate had a recruiter like Jake in their corner."