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Embracing New Beginnings 🌟 Last week, I received the news that my position at Amplitude has been eliminated. After 5+ incredible years, it’s bittersweet to say goodbye, but I’m profoundly grateful for the journey and the mission of helping companies build better products. Amplitude transformed my life, bringing my family and me to the Bay Area and allowing me to grow in ways I never imagined. More importantly, it introduced me to some of the brightest minds and most wonderful people in the industry. At Amplitude, I thrived by learning, experimenting, iterating, and growing. To everyone I worked with, shared coffee with, and greeted every afternoon with a “good morning” – thank you. You’ve all contributed to who I am today. Now, I’m excited to turn the page and start a new chapter. Here’s a quick snapshot of my journey: 👥 Leadership: Led a team of recruiters across various departments including Customer Success, Marketing, G&A, People, and Early Careers. Led Talent Sourcers, Recruiting Coordinators, and our first Talent Operations Coordinator. Developed the Talent Acquisition org’s first Career Ladder. 📊 Recruiting Operations: Built team-wide metrics reporting, a recruiting capacity model, and streamlined offer templates in NAMER from 40+ to 2. Passionate about dashboard creation and recruiting analytics. 🎓 Early Careers: Created Amplitude’s first Early Careers program, increasing diversity and inclusivity in our candidate pools and interview process through cross-functional collaboration. 📈 Employer Brand: Developed and executed the #LifeAtAmplitude campaign with a $0 budget, partnering with Marketing to bring our vision to life. 🌍 DEI: Founded and co-led the Black Leaders at Amplitude Creating Change (BLACC) ERG. Drove our first Diversity Recruitment strategy and implemented advanced hiring manager interview training to make our process more predictive. 👖 Denim Day: Organized Amplitude’s first (and legendary, depending on who you ask) Denim Day with 9+ Ampliteers showcasing as much denim as possible. I had a blast writing this chapter, but as Natasha Bedingfield sings, “today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.” Here’s to new adventures and opportunities! 🚀 #CareerJourney #NewBeginnings #NextPlay #OpenToWork #Leadership #TalentAcquisition #EarlyCareers #EmployerBrand #DEI #Recruiting

I'm happy to share my latest article published in The European Business Review. ✍🏼 "Loyalty and Layoffs" explores the complex intertwining of personal identity and corporate loyalty. As employees are encouraged to immerse themselves in company culture, what are the risks when layoffs abruptly sever those ties? Read more about reclaiming self, building resilience, and finding a balanced approach in the modern job market. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e9QPRrYQ #CorporateCulture #EmployeeWellbeing #PersonalDevelopment ______________________________________ Fusion Associates - Executive Search with Purpose, Sustainability and Influence

✨With Gen Z workers estimated to make up one-third of the workforce by 2030 and a volatile economic climate causing layoffs and job uncertainty, your recruitment and retention strategies need to account for the youngest working generation to attract top talent and keep them engaged.👍 3️⃣ Here are three things Gen Z wants in a company to help shape your recruitment and retention strategies: https://lnkd.in/g9A3ggvP

2023 has been a challenging year for employees. It kicked off with a wave of layoffs and concerns of an imminent recession. Learn more below! #glassdoor #year #2023 #yearinreview

In only 2 years, German tech company 1NCE went from 120 to 450 employees 🔥 With big growth, comes big challenges. With over 150 open roles to be filled within a year, 1NCE needed to level up their global hiring strategy. Our VP Marketing Bastian Eichler sat down with Janika Rueger, Global HR Business Partner at 1NCE to discuss how they did it—in partnership with WorkMotion 🌎 Watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/esE4fuJY

I recently read a report that the voluntary employee retention rate at companies nationwide was just 57% last year. That’s means nearly half of all employees changed jobs in the past year, which is wild to think about! 😬 I imagine it’s much higher in the political and nonprofit space, even discounting all the layoffs we’ve seen this year. Knowing that… I decided to calculate what it was at Authentic over the last year, and I was really proud to see it was nearly 90%. That means 9 out of 10 of our employees from last cycle, where we arguably had our greatest impact, are still here doing incredible and creative work for Democratic campaigns and progressive nonprofits. What a testament to all the work our leadership team and managers, especially Loren Merchan and our friends in the ACI union, have done to build an amazing company culture. 💐 We’re far from perfect, of course — but we’ve built something special and it’s why our strategy, creative, and results are second-to-none industry wide.

⚡️Responsible Restructuring ⚡️ a #workforce term coined by Ruben Harris that I absolutetly love. What is it? Take the workforce population that you might be laying off.. the humans that know your business, know your industry, and have great transferrable skills... and reskill them and redeploy them into hard to fill tech jobs after 3 months of full-time training. For example, our General Assembly partnership with The Walt Disney Company. Look below for results: Do good by your people ➡️ Innovative approach to talent pipelines ➡️ Cheaper than staffing budgets ➡️ Greater diversity of tech teams ➡️ Faster ROI. ⚡️The data says folks that will be reskilled and redeployed will stay in the roles 2x longer than those that you hire externally. #techtalent #tech #workforceplanning

This is not about “tips” to get your next role fast. Platitudes would be an insult to the many colleagues, clients, friends, and family who are working their butts off to land their next role. We know that work has long changed. If we understood this intellectually but not in our hearts, after the wave of layoffs that began in 2023 we certainly feel it in our hearts. For many, the sense that work as a family was shattered. There is so much pain and anxiety. After the informal survey I conducted a few weeks ago https://lnkd.in/e2zsPzZu , I processed my thoughts in this article. My hope is that each of us regains our power in the labor-compensation economic transaction. Work is not a family. Work has changed. The people we work with may be family, but a company is not a family. As a part of the workforce, I still miss the days when I thought of work as a family. Many of the people I work with are family, still. ❤️ As a leader, coach, and friend, I feel a responsibility to support individuals around me in becoming empowered participants in the new labor economy. Each of us has power within. I also hope that somewhere in the rapid rate of digitalization and change to how work works people will be able to once again feel safe to have a healthy attachment to their places of work. However, this may not be where we are now. I suggest some strategies that can help us be empowered in today’s labor economy, by thinking like a consultant. This is for anyone between roles, taking a break, or even currently employed. #leadershipcoaching #careerdevelopment #empowerment #powerwithin #peoplefirst https://lnkd.in/ej8ENtzm