Amanda Westenskow
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Scott Chandler
Amanda brings dedication to everything she does. She worked with me on a pilot program testing a hypothesis, with a rather ambiguous execution plan. One thing we knew is that we had to get learnings quickly and that meant a ton of outbound attempts to compile data. Amanda bought into her role, put her head down and outperformed the rest of the team on her metrics. Her attitude was awesome. Her willingness to make adjustments was great. She's a team player and a lot of fun to work with.
Brian M.
Amanda is a stellar recruiting talent and strong business partner. She allowed our teams to move faster, which was especially impressive given how challenging it can be to bring on great talent in highly competitive areas like Data Science and ML.
Scott Chandler
Amanda brings dedication to everything she does. She worked with me on a pilot program testing a hypothesis, with a rather ambiguous execution plan. One thing we knew is that we had to get learnings quickly and that meant a ton of outbound attempts to compile data. Amanda bought into her role, put her head down and outperformed the rest of the team on her metrics. Her attitude was awesome. Her willingness to make adjustments was great. She's a team player and a lot of fun to work with.
Brian M.
Amanda is a stellar recruiting talent and strong business partner. She allowed our teams to move faster, which was especially impressive given how challenging it can be to bring on great talent in highly competitive areas like Data Science and ML.
Scott Chandler
Amanda brings dedication to everything she does. She worked with me on a pilot program testing a hypothesis, with a rather ambiguous execution plan. One thing we knew is that we had to get learnings quickly and that meant a ton of outbound attempts to compile data. Amanda bought into her role, put her head down and outperformed the rest of the team on her metrics. Her attitude was awesome. Her willingness to make adjustments was great. She's a team player and a lot of fun to work with.
Brian M.
Amanda is a stellar recruiting talent and strong business partner. She allowed our teams to move faster, which was especially impressive given how challenging it can be to bring on great talent in highly competitive areas like Data Science and ML.
Scott Chandler
Amanda brings dedication to everything she does. She worked with me on a pilot program testing a hypothesis, with a rather ambiguous execution plan. One thing we knew is that we had to get learnings quickly and that meant a ton of outbound attempts to compile data. Amanda bought into her role, put her head down and outperformed the rest of the team on her metrics. Her attitude was awesome. Her willingness to make adjustments was great. She's a team player and a lot of fun to work with.
Brian M.
Amanda is a stellar recruiting talent and strong business partner. She allowed our teams to move faster, which was especially impressive given how challenging it can be to bring on great talent in highly competitive areas like Data Science and ML.
Experience
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ConnectedWell Talent & Recruitment Advisors
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United States
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Staffing and Recruiting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Talent Advisor
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Jul 2021 - Present
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Axiom
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Recruiter
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Sep 2019 - Present
o Hired as their first Lead Recruiter, Recruiting Coordinator, and HR Generalisto Met with our CEO and COO on a weekly basis to discuss the needs within the companyo Built and implemented a hiring plan that was created specifically for a smaller international teamo Collaborated with our COO to build and implement an Onboarding Process that is geared to ensure we’re providing exceptional careo Coordinated with the team to plan our first Team Sprint in Amsterdam ▪ Booked all travel and hotel rooms, coordinated with the hotel staff to schedule meeting roomso Researched and conducted our first successful Strengthsfinder exerciseo Partnered with different companies to build out necessary tools to use within HR (greenhouse, CultureAmp, SequoiaOne)o Drafted all offer letters and sent any additional documentation to all potential hireso Ensured all documentation was correct and gathered together prior to employees first day
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Chime
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Technical Recruiter
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Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
o The first in-house Recruiter when the company was ~40 employees in totalo Built the recruiting process from scratch by collaborating with our HR team ▪ Executed our partnership with different vendors (Greenhouse, Goodtime, Best Place to Work)o Partnered with our Lead Recruiting Coordinator to develop an effective hiring process ▪ Created and implemented Chime’s very first Hiring Manager trainingo Partnered with our Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Risk ▪ Successfully built both teams from the bottom up and hired their first Director of Analyticso Took the initiative to build specialize projects within the recruiting team ▪ Projects include: Diversity & Inclusion, Building the culture of Chime, Evaluating and Implementing ways to provide a great candidate experience
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Thumbtack
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Recruiter
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Apr 2014 - Feb 2019
o Partnered with VP of People to hire & close G & A roles (People Business Partner, People Programs Manager) ▪ Full-cycle recruiting which included: sourcing, interviewing, coordinating travel, closing▪ Closed both roles in a matter of 2 – 3 months o Partnered with both of our Sr. Director of Business Analytics & Director of Product Analytics▪ Built the Business Analytics team from scratch (0 – 6) within 3 – 4 months ▪ Doubled the Product Analytics team size in Q4 2018 (14-28) with a close rate of 88%. o Partnered with Director of Data Science & Infrastructure ▪ Doubled the team from (3) to (6) & was able to close the role ∙ Sourcer (2014 – 2015) o Actively sourced engineering candidates o Sourced an average of 1k of profiles a week; reached out to (250) candidates a week with a 60% response rate
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Rooms Controller
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Jul 2012 - Apr 2014
∙ Assigned rooms to every guest/accommodate their needs ∙ Coordinated different events with vendors & ensured their rooms were properly blocked ∙ Lead a team of (4) front desk agents ∙ Followed up with guests to ensure their requests or problems have been met to their satisfaction ∙ Reviewed & tracked requests for room / checkout changes when possible; communicated status to appropriate staff
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Education
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2014 - 2014
Salt Lake Community College
Certificate, Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic)
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