Well, first of all, I am a talent acquisition scout for State Farm Insurance here in the U. S. Dallas, Texas, Bloomington, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia and Phoenix, Arizona or where we're based out of. What my job looks like, essentially, is I'm a part of the HR function so I basically look for a talent, I'm hiring for State Farm but I hire for very hard to fill positions. For instance, I'm hiring pilots, lawyers, really high proficient software developers, data scientist. I hire some hackers not to just here recently so a lot of different types of positions. There's only four of us in the organization so how I got to this role was a little unconventional. My career started in insurance and I've just got out of college so I just wanted the job so I was in claims and that really didn't speak to me. So I really didn't care for that piece of the insurance industry so I went into retail management and I thought, hey, I want to help people but the dynamics of the job. I like the people who are developing my teams but just the hours and the customer service. So through my journey, I kind of found out how am I going to narrow down what my focus is and what my purpose is going to be and so I started networking really hard, trying to utilize my transferrable skills to get into HR focused opportunities. I didn't know that was gonna be recruiting, I thought, maybe sometimes hr generalist or different things, I guess I wasn't thinking big enough and so I was able to get into transition. My hiring, my previous hiring experience and development experience into recruiting so I got into recruiting wasn't exactly the HR recruiting role that I wanted at State Farm because I went into agency recruiting which is essentially you're out there trying to sell an opportunity about four State Farm looking for people to open businesses and it definitely is a fun and challenging role but it prepared me for this role because essentially I'm going out into the market trying to find those uniforms and the market that have a specific skill set to partner with State Farm. I hope that answers your question.

This is the great part about my job so after all those years, I worked over a decade in retail management and traveling all over the state opening stores, remodelling, building up teams doing things. Now I get to work at home most the time so it's a really great opportunity and recruiting, you have a lot of flexibility, I am based out of our office in Dallas but we do have a flexible type work schedule so the best part of my job is the flexibility, it has a great work life balance in the role that I'm in. So as far as work-life balance and work hours, it's great, it’s the best part of the job. What responsibility decisions do I make, basically, I'm part of the hiring team, I'm going out, I'm picking candidates or evaluating proactive candidates to be presented to the hiring manager or the hiring team, preparing them best as possible to be competitive if they are and then it doesn't just stop there. There's a retention piece to it as well so I still keep in contact with people that I bring on that organization because I want to tap back into those goals they told me that they had and I'm gonna help them achieve those goals if I can, in my capacity.

In my function, you're going to use a lot of different applicant tracking systems, we'll have our own within state farm on how we track applicants, how we review everyone, how we keep our candidates aligned to each opportunity but then we also use things to source passive candidates LinkedIn of course, that's a really big one. So if you're not on LinkedIn, you probably should be there. I'm on LinkedIn, you could find me there, I live there and then also dice is a really, really good one that I've been speaking to students about and a lot don't know about its focus mainly on technical positions. So I'm currently working with the team to hire some guide wire developers and data scientists and I'm like, hey, if you don't technically have experience that we're looking for, get on dice because there are a lot of organizations out there looking for specific niche technical experience so get a dice profile. I LinkedIn probably the most because it's the easiest to use and that's the one that we invest the most in as an organization so they kind of make it to where it's easy for us to use with the different licenses and things that we have but I'm always open to new things, joining new groups, meet ups, things like that as well, too but LinkedIn’s probably the preferred method right now but I'm looking for something new.