I'm motivated by helping people change their lives for the better. I have a knack for trusting my intuition and taking leaps of faith as well as being pleasantly persistent. :) For Ex: Who else leaves a decade long successful career in Advertising to shift into Recruitment or gets laid off and buys a one way ticket to Sydney, Australia with only a Visa in hand and finds a dream job. It was all scary but with a risk, it yields a award - whether it's a great story or a learning lesson. :)Currently, I'm a recruiter hiring Go to Market - Enterprise level Solution Engineers and Solution Architects (Pre and Post Sales) at Twilio. It's been a dream to work with such talent here at Twilio and have such amazing conversations with candidates. Previously, I hired online Educators (Teachers, Principles, Nurses etc) you would find at a brick and mortar school for K12.com. It was incredibly rewarding to have the impact knowing that I'm hiring well qualified educators to help shape the future. I started my recruitment career as Tech Recruiter at Computer Futures where I was for almost two years until Covid came crashing the world to a halt. I learned the ups and downs of contract recruitment and was constantly fueled by knowing I can make a difference in someone's life by finding them their dream job. I learned a lot about the USCIS guidelines and felt passionate about ensuring that the most qualified candidates gets the job regardless of Visa status such as H1B/OPT/CPT. I started my advertising career in 2007 by working at Universal McCann and Initiative Media in Media Planning for companies such as Sony and Hyundai for 3 years and then realized I was a "people person" and switched to Advertising Sales. For 8 years I sold, planned and strategized media campaigns for Fortune 500 companies in Los Angeles, CA, Sydney, Australia and Austin, TX. In my last job in advertising, I was a Sr. AM at Ad Action, a mobile ad tech start up, where I managed 15 to 30 campaigns with a strategic and analytical mindset to ensure our customers not only had traffic but quality users. Basically, I was a glorified digital campaign analyst where I made sure to optimize mobile streams of traffic to profitability based off CPA (cost per action). Recruiting Skill-sets: Recruiting Tools: Boolean, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, CareerBuilder, Zip Recruiter, Dice, and repository sites like GitHub. I loved other creative ways such as using Facebook, Meet Up events, or even Blind to find candidates.