I am a 2x best selling award winning author and the world’s leading authority on helping her clients uplevel & recession proof their career while landing $53,000 - $100,000+ salary raises for unpublished jobs through her proprietary Intentional Career Design blueprint. Formerly, I spent 20 years in Human Resources was the most visible employee of Amazon and has hired 10,343 personally and reviewed over 1,000,000 resumes. At Amazon, led Talent acquisition and Recruiting strategy to find, recruit, and hire the most elusive talent on the planet. My program's blueprint was created after reverse engineering the same process used to seek out the world's most desired talent. I use this process to teach my clients how to increase their candidacy value and position yourself as the candidate of choice (aka purple squirrel) so recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers BEG you to come and work for their organization. It is my mission to help high performance leaders, executives, and professionals to take control of their career trajectory and do work that truly matters so that you have more freedom and flexibility to go to work energized, excited, and motivating while coming home to a live a life that you (and your family & loved ones) truly love.The average client who completes the Intentional Career Design blueprint lands 2.1 job offers in only 9 weeks and receives $53,000 - $100,000+ salary increases for their dream job at their ideal employer. I have now supported over 20,000 clients in 121 countries and 6 continents across thousands of industries and has been featured in Business Insider, CNBC, Forbes, Yahoo, Entrepreneur, MSN, Well+Good, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Acorns, The Ladders, Create & Cultivate, Small Biz Daily, The Globe & Mail, Go Banking Rates, ERE Media, & SHRM.

Amazon's most visible employee on Linkedin. I led efforts to source and recruit the most elusive executive and senior talent on the planet to work at Amazon Corporate. During my time at Amazon, I supported talent acquisition and employment branding strategy for sourcing and recruiting talent across 3 continents, HR4HR, Lab 126 (R+D for Amazon devices & tech), and North American Fulfillment Ops.

Responsible for oversight for full cycle West Coast Region hiring for all positions geographically located in region. Lead a team of talented Recruiters, Sourcers, and Coordinators to support hiring in Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho. Responsible to oversee and provide strategic solutions to hiring managers with competitive hiring needs. Lead a variety of projects and programs to elevate both the strategic and tactical aspects of talent acquisition. Partner with the Talent Acquisition team, Human Resources and Leadership teams to determine strategic recruiting direction, develop innovative strategies, process improvements, risk mitigation, long term workforce planning, and talent pipelining.

Initial member of full cycle teacher recruitment team for Knowledge Universe in support of the KinderCare teacher recruiting launch. Supported Seattle and Puget Sound region with sourcing, screening, and scheduling teacher candidates to meet with the strategic field leadership team. Responsible for identifying target recruiting and center location, recruiting launch, coaching and training field and recruiting team members in creative sourcing strategies and best practices. Engaged outreach to local early childhood education program coordinators to establish employer branding for students within each schools’ teacher training program. Identified local education focused career events for networking conversations about Knowledge Universe opportunities.

Maintained full accountability for the effective and efficient staffing of largest division of organization with responsibility and ultimate accountability for more than 500 hires annually in three states. Oversee and supervise a Recruiting Process Outsourcing team and model for front line positions along with two contract recruiters. Serve as OFCCP compliance authority and ATS subject matter expert. Provide consultation to hiring managers on position launch, recruitment strategy, and coordinate time delivery for position fill date. Evaluated department recruiting process for opportunities to improve process and experience and created updated interview evaluation guides and scoring. Created candidate and hiring manager experience processes to increase candidate offer acceptance and improve hiring manager satisfaction. Responsible for veteran outreach and recruitment planning targets. Designed hiring manager training for new and existing hiring managers on recruiting life cycle and successful interviewing basics.

Oversaw Washington state recruiting for operations positions. Served in a strategic role through the RFP and onboarding process of an RPO (recruiting process outsourcing) model. Worked with hiring managers and determined workforce planning strategies to manage high volume and scalable recruiting model. Responsible for relationship management and oversight for hiring managers and recruiters through RPO model. Identified key areas of opportunity and provided feedback to RPO recruiters and leaders through all aspects of the hiring process. High volume recruitment for three technical repair call centers located in Everett, Fife and Lynnwood, Washington. Oversaw a team of 1 contract recruiter and 2 coordinators in support of large hiring volumes. Support regional recruitment of leadership and professional positions. Supported a total team of over 1000 agents and supporting departments. Responsible for posting, sourcing, screening, phone interviewing, assessments and coordination of in person interviews at multiple locations. Created performance based sourcing and interview strategy to target high caliber candidates resulting in 40% decrease in new hire turnover in first six months. Initiated employee referral campaign; employee referrals hired represented 35% of total hires in 2009. Successfully implemented community outreach program utilizing local resources and on-site job fairs. Built relationship with hiring managers to create strategies for reducing time to fill and turnover. Maintain Applicant Tracking System and OFCCP compliance.

Responsible for full cycle, high volume recruiting for over 100 locations in Washington and Oregon and supported Corporate Office recruitment and training. Managed the recruitment selection process for open requisitions including sourcing, screening, phone interviewing, face to face interviewing, hiring, background screening and reference screening, and new hire check backs. Developed internship program.. Developed training classes on recruitment, customer service, advanced managerial training, foreclosure law, employee benefits, and initial new hire development. Provided recruiting support to all management levels as needed and collaborated with hiring managers to develop and execute recruiting strategies. Worked with hiring managers to complete monthly workforce succession planning and ensure market compliance with hiring policies and state employment laws. Trained and mentored virtual recruiting team members. During my time with Shurgard I was also responsible for a mini territory of REIT locations in North Puget Sound with more than $6M in annual revenue . Oversee 7 store managers and 14 managers-in-training. Training of new hires, scheduling, and working with P&L statements to identify opportunities for revenue management and ROI.