Professional Experience

When I graduated from the University of Washington in 2011, I had a master plan. My goal was to work for a few years, save up some money, and go to law school. With that in mind, I sought out and obtained a job with a local staffing agency that specialized in legal placements. My hope was to work in legal recruiting for a few years, get contacts within the major Seattle law firms, obtain my JD, and then have inroads to a new lawyer job.  

Instead, I ended up really liking recruiting and, after placing some lawyers at Weyerhaeuser, was asked to go in-house for their recruiting department. In my current role, I manage all recruiting efforts for Weyerhaeuser’s Western Region (WA, OR, CA, ID, UT, CO, AZ, TX). This includes jobs ranging from log truck drivers and millwrights, to accountants and IT professionals, all the way up to strategic business leaders reporting to Weyerhaeuser’s Senior Management Team.   

After five years at Weyerhaeuser, it was announced that we would be opening up an IT System Manager role for our recruiting platform, Taleo. I didn't have a lot of technical IT experience, but I had worked in the system since I started at Weyerhaeuser and I understood the internal team that the role would support as well as the needs of external candidates as they applied. I expressed my interest, went through the interview process, and ended up landing the role. There was definitely a learning curve for me, but through the support of our team and my own determination, I was able to master the technical ins and outs of Taleo. I've since completed multiple technical updates, process upgrades, and day to day technical support for both internal and external users.