A little bit about me. I'm originally from Central California, where there was a lot of farmland it's a very, very small town. My parents actually own a small sporting goods business that has been in my family for four generations. So almost 100 years were 97 right now really do attribute my work ethic and just the way that I look at things from growing up in that store and watching my dad worked really, really hard to maintain this business and keep it afloat. From there, I actually went to UC Berkeley. I started Media Studies there and got my bachelor's. I also was a student-athlete, so I was a part of the Cheer team for three years and captain for my last two, so really, really great experience. I was able to do a lot of things, meet a lot of really great alumni and put myself out there. Then after college, I really wanted to get into tech. My older sister had been in the software industry in sales for about five years or so at the time and it really advised me to consider getting into tech. My Aunt also worked as a recruiter at Google, so I had a few family members in the industry to sort of advise me. I had never really considered getting into recruiting. It's not usually something that a lot of people say is absolutely what they want to get into initially. I think a lot of people fall into it with certain characteristics; people oriented kind of personalities etc. so I ended up two months out of college joining of the Lions, which is a software sales recruiting firm based in San Francisco. We typically worked with about over 100 start ups in the software as a service industry, hiring for everything from entry level sales right out of college, all the way to VP of sales. So it was a really big shock for me joining and just kind of jumping into this really, really big industry and software and trying to hire. So from there like I said, placing a lot of different types of salespeople and then eventually became an account manager, and ended up closing my future boss as a recruiting partner. I'm currently a recruiter at Insightly and have been for about a year and a half now and I hire for pretty much everything since I'm the only recruiters. We're also a startup as well, about 120 employees or so. So, I hire everything from sales, like a mentioned; customer support, customer, success, marketing, and a little bit of engineering. And then I'm actually working now to do full stack engineers too. I do a lot of different things, for sure, really, really happy to be at Insightly at a startup that allows you to wear a lot of different hats so that's basically me in a nutshell.

So obviously, as a recruiter, I do a lot of hiring; so that means that I go through all active applications that we get in our ATS, I do resume screening, hop on phone calls. Typically, any given week, I could be interviewing, you know, a handful of candidates all way up to 15 candidates per week; 30-minute conversation each so it's definitely a lot of talking. I typically work 9 to 5 very standard hours. Um, and so as of COVID and this pandemic, that we're currently in, our entire company is remote right out. We've been remote since March, and it will be remote at least until the end of 2020. You know, given just sort of monitoring the pandemic and how were playing out there. So, other things that I do in my job is well, so beyond just recruiting, I also managed all of our talent branding websites: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, um, as well a posting on posting about different roles were hiring for, culture initiatives were working on, you know, whether that be creating posts about yoga, or meditations were doing, really just how we're keeping our work culture now that we're all working from home, you know, on our computers. A few other things that I typically do are other culture initiatives within people operations. Our team is small, but mighty were about five us doing culture for an entire company, so you know the difference initiatives, events, things like that to really make sure that everybody feels like they're appreciated and you can help with work-life balance.

So Insightly is a CRM and marketing automation tool. If you haven't heard from heard of us, we typically cater to small and mid sized businesses. Obviously, we do use Insightly using our own tools is helpful. I also used Linkedin recruiter like most workers do. I also used in Entello, which is a diversity and inclusion sourcing tool so that can help us find candidates that maybe aren't on Linkedin to I make sure that we're trying to value hiring diverse candidates, especially in today's society. I think it's really important to make sure that you're using different tools and trying to have a diverse pipeline. But those are a few tools that I used besides GMail but that the pretty standard. Other than that, that's pretty much it. I also do some creative boolean strings on Exalead and Google to help find people. I took a course for that to help understand how to find certain people and filter so I do it every once in a while, but typically no LinkedIn recruiter and then our company also uses Jobvite as our ATS.