How I Got Hired
Hey there! Welcome to ‘How I Got Hired’: a show about ordinary people like you and me, and how they created extraordinary success in their career. We uncover how they got hired in those career defining roles, whether it's by companies, whether it's by their very first paid clients and we are all about fully practical strategies and tactics; who’s got time for fluff? Not us! So if that is what you are about, you are in the right place. My name is Sonal Bahl, International Career Strategist and Founder of SuperCharge and here I am, every single week to help you to supercharge your believability, networkability, marketability and hireability, so you have a career and life that you are proud of. Now go in and listen with an open heart and an open mind and believe really believe if they could do it, you can do it too. Now let’s get you supercharged! Reach out to us: www.SuperChargeYourself.com. (Podcast music credit: Teamwork by Scott Holmes, under Creative Commons license.)
How I Got Hired
29. Lee Andrese: Teacher, Trucker, Rancher, Recruiter
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was a famous book written by the great novelist John le Carre.
Inspired by that title, today's episode has a special guest who has hired talent for the Intelligence community and has reinvented her own career many times over.
Lee Andrese has had a phenomenal career as a secondary school teacher, a cowgirl and tractor trailer driver, before moving to Talent Aquisition!
Over her career, Lee has personally filled 3000 positions at Fortune 100 companies and trained 2000 recruiters.
Previously, she served as the head of the Aquent Studios’ Government practice introducing innovative solutions to attract talent for the US Federal Government, Civilian and DoD agencies, including the Intelligence Community.
So, how did Lee get there?
Listen to learn all about career reinvention.
In this juicy episode, Lee talks about:
- an incident that changed her career outlook, very early in her life
- what made her change her name in college
- how she made the change from high school teacher to heading a staffing business
- why she showed up to an important interview in crutches (and what followed)
- how she carved a niche in hiring for the intelligence community
- what prompted her to leave her employer after 21 years and start out on her own
- and much more
Don't even think about missing this episode!
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/landrese/
Here she is jumping off a plane!
Lee's website:
https://www.akathame.com/
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