Sr. Recruiter - I build the teams that build the satellites. Recruiting Truth Teller & Mythbuster. Somehow, LinkedIn Top Voice 2022

Recruiting Manager - Amazon Leo
Job Search Strategist - www.recruiterauntie.com
YouTube Creator - AMA Friday with Amy Miller

***I work at Amazon, but these comments and opinions are my own***

TL:DR - interested in roles with my company? The FASTEST PATH to consideration is to apply directly. You can also follow up with the recruiting team at amazonleojobs@amazon.com  

Read on for more "about me"!

After 20+ years in recruiting, hunting everything from truck drivers to CFOs, I'm currently a Recruiting Manager at Amazon Leo. I've spent the last several years in big tech (Microsoft / Google) after many years in various agencies learning how "real" recruiting is done. I'm passionate about client AND candidate experience, and I believe that good consulting sometimes looks like bad customer service.

Feel free to connect with me at amy@recruitinginyogapants.com. 

Looking for TEMPLATES and REFERRALS?

On my website www.recruiterauntie.com you'll find a link to Career Coaches and Resume Writers I personally recommend, as well as my Networking, Salary FAQ and Recruiter FAQ templates - all designed to help empower job seekers. 

Salary FAQs - how to address all things compensation at every stage of the recruiting/interviewing process

Recruiter FAQs - questions you can ask your recruiter at any part of the process

Networking - 3 way networking (Recruiters/Peers/Hiring Managers) insights and templates you can modify

Specialties: sourcing, recruiting, employment branding, blogging

Amy Miller

The notion that recruiters have to be experts in the field they recruit for is silly goose stuff. 

Y'all I promise you if I was a trained as a rocket scientist I'd be doing THAT. 

Full video drops tomorrow but enjoy this lil sneak peek!

Recruiting Manager - I build the teams that build the satellites. Recruiting Truth Teller & Mythbuster. Somehow, LinkedIn Top Voice 2022

Many moons ago I sat with a new (to me) hiring manager who had spent 25 years at our (at the time) employer. I was newly in role/company, and had been a bit of a job hopper prior. After we did all the usual introductions, what are you hiring for, etc I asked a very nosy question:

"Mike, you've been here for YEARS - what makes you stay? Aren't you BORED?"

(super tactful as always 🙃)

His answer surprised me and reframed my thinking in a huge way. 

He looked at  his career in 3 year sprints. He would take on a new project, move to a different team, start scaling a new idea - and commit for 3 years. If he was winding down that internal clock, he started looking both inside and out. If he was enjoying it and there was more to accomplish, he'd commit for another few years. He hadn't up to that point found an external opportunity that was as compelling as whatever new thing he was moving to inside.

He had lived so many professional lives without ever updating his work email address. 

It made me think of MY career in a whole new way. I ended up staying at that company longer than any other before - until now. As I am coming up on 6 years next week, I have lived several professional lives in that time. Huge thanks to that engineering manager who helped me see growth differently, and enabled me to give myself permission to find it right where I was.

Hot take -  Recruiters are not technical experts. Blaming them for that is missing the point.

Recruiters aren’t hired to *do* the job.
They’re hired to 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙣 - at scale, under pressure, with imperfect information.

The hiring manager owns technical depth.

The recruiter owns:
🎯  translating vague business needs into real humans
🎯 spotting patterns across hundreds of hires
🎯 keeping bias and ego from wrecking the process
🎯 making sure “non-traditional” candidates don’t get filtered out

If recruiters had to be experts in every role they touched, career pivots would disappear, transferable skills wouldn't count, and hiring would grind to a halt. Because we'd be doing YOUR job - not ours.

Your job as a candidate isn’t to out-smart the recruiter.
It’s to clearly show you can do the work the team needs done.

Watch here --> https://lnkd.in/gPfe5cYg
Because this myth is creating way more job search frustration than it deserves.

#RecruitingTruths #JobSearchAdvice #HiringReality #Careers #Recruiters #RecruitingAuntie #RecruitingInYogaPants

Spicy Saturday! This one’s gonna sting just a little.

I see this EVERY DAY on social media. 

“I worked so hard for X years!”

“I have so much experience in Y!”

“It’s not FAIR that I’m expected to cut down my resume!”

“Recruiters just want a unicorn!”

Y’all. I’m gonna hold your hand and get real close to you while I tell you this. 

Your. Resume. Is. NOT. About. YOU. 

Change your mindset on this. 

When you view your resume through the lens of a decision maker, you see it differently. 

Understand that the recruiter AND hiring manager share the same goal: identify enough of a fit that it warrants an interview. 

That’s it. 

You could be the world’s best baker, capable of the sweetest treats and the most elaborate cakes - but if the hiring manager is looking for BBQ?

It’s a no from them. 

Give the people what they WANT. 

Clear indicators through your background and accomplishments that you can solve their problems. 

What do they want? Got a long form video on that - How to read a resume like a hiring manager: https://lnkd.in/gki93yWB

Recruiters don’t guess your age.

I honestly can't think of a single recruiter who CARES how old you are.

A lot of folks worry about ageism. I get it. I'm over 50 so BELIEVE ME - I am well aware of the disparity between me, my peers, and my potential competition on the job market. 

Here's the thing - the REAL problem with your resume? It's not your AGE. It's your FRAMING.

Your resume is still doing things like:
🛑  Listing graduation dates
🛑 Showing 25+ years of roles in detail
🛑 Highlighting tools nobody uses anymore

Ageism is real in hiring. It's also a bigger issue well beyond the resume. How we show up in interviews, biases about our looks, (hahahaha I'm a woman you think I don't have that clocked???) you name it. I get it. BIG ISSUE.

But THIS week? I'm talking purely resumes.

A lot of people are getting screened out BEFORE that bias even has a chance to show up.

That’s what this video breaks down:
✔️ The resume signals that accidentally age you
✔️ What to remove (without erasing your credibility)
✔️ How to look experienced, current, and still learning

You are not “too old.”

But your resume might be stuck in a different decade. THAT part is fixable.

Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gJeFrafw

If you know someone who’s been told they’re “overqualified,” do them a favor and share this.

#RecruiterTruth #JobSearch #ResumeTips #Ageism #CareerAdvice #ExperiencedProfessionals #RecruiterAuntie

🎉 4 years at Amazon Devices & Services! Let's celebrate Natalie who's been hard at work hiring Mechanical Engineers AND Learning & Development Architects for our Amazon Leo recruiting team.

Natalie, THANK YOU for your hard work this year! You've seen lots of change (managers, business alignment, sourcing strategies) and handled it all with grace. Love working with you!!  

Want to join our team and work with awesome people like Natalie? Check us out: https://lnkd.in/gHrP-FQS

#TechRecruiting #WomenInTech #AmazonLife #Recruiting #TalentAcquisition

Spicy Saturday! 

Y’all are about to find out how many of your connections are suddenly experts in political science, international law, and special forces. 

🫣

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Coming in hot with the first video of 2026! 

How exactly do Big Tech Recruiters WORK? Y'all the truth is, there are as many variations inside these large companies as there are outside. That said, there are some common best practices I've seen over and over.

I break them all down this week. 

We are spilling ALL the tea about how recruiting happens (happened?) at my previous employers. Your best source of truth of course is ALWAYS the recruiters doing the work at the companies you want to apply to. That said - I have some insights and I'm not afraid to share them.

So before you fall for a magic course or pay for a hack, WATCH THIS VIDEO. Save your sanity and your money.

Watch here - https://lnkd.in/giV8QTm3

If there were such a thing as a perfect resume, you'd already have the template. Recruiters, hiring managers, coaches, ANYONE AND EVERYONE involved in hiring would all agree on it.

We don’t.

Because perfect resumes don’t exist.

What does exist?

Resumes that are clear, relevant, and good enough to start a conversation.

In this week's AMA Friday, I break down why chasing perfection keeps job seekers stuck - and what actually moves the needle with hiring authorities.

If you’re rewriting your resume for the eleventy billionth time wondering why you're STILL not getting calls… this one’s for you.

Watch here - https://lnkd.in/e6_n2rRu

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Fractional Executive Assistant 

Providing support for HNW, celebrity, C-Suite & startup clients. 
Responsibilities include multiple special projects and large accounts including all confidential matters as well as operations, recruiting and training staff, reviewing the work of junior contractors. Some examples:

•	Improved a 40-year-old company’s efficiency by transitioning from MS Office to Google Suite, resulting in an annual savings of $75,000 per year
•	Reduced travel expenses by 20% annually by increasing efficiency in scheduling and travel planning for an Orange County tech startup

Fractional C-Suite Executive Assistant / CoS - Open to FT

Macrometa

Provided exceptional support to the CEO and Co-Founder, expertly managing complex calendars, meeting planning, projects, and initiatives. Proven ability to respond to shifting priorities and deadlines with efficiency and effectiveness.
•	Improved senior executives' efficiency by transitioning from Google Spaces to Slack, resulting in enhanced communication, better performance and productivity
•	Achieved a 15% cost savings for the company by negotiating with vendors and suppliers to reduce monthly operating expenses
•	Reduced travel expenses by 30% and saved the company $50,000 annually by increasing efficiency in scheduling and travel planning
•	Reduced overall expenses for the executive team by 20% by developing and implementing a new expense tracking system (Concur)
•	Contributed to a 25% increase in revenue by assisting the EVP of Sales in the creation of a new sales strategy that was launched in the second quarter 2021

Executive Assistant to the CEO | Chief of Staff | Director of Recruiting & People Operations

InterDigital, Inc.

Interdigital, Inc. is a $280M technology and research & development company that provides wireless and video technologies for mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide.

Senior Executive Assistant to CTO

Provided both executive and personal support to CTO and his division of over 300 technical and non-technical staff executing AI, ML, Mobility and IoT initiatives in US, Finland, Germany, UK, and France. 
•	Reduced team's travel expenses by 30%, resulting in an overall savings of $357,000 in 2021
•	Successfully launched the company's first-ever Environmental, Social Governance Program, leading the steering committee which saw a Year One savings of $65,000
•	Reduced CTO's workload through the implementation of prioritization and delegation, resulting in increased productivity by 21%
•	Achieved significant YoY cost savings and service enhancements by auditing and negotiating with key vendors. In the first six months, the company recognized a savings of $142,000

Senior Executive Assistant to CTO

Digital Media Management

Digital Media Management is a full-service digital agency, content studio, and incubator.

Executive Assistant to CEO

As employee number four, I supported the boot-strapped CEO and his global, digital start-up and helped grow it 600 people in five years using my people and HR, accounting, operations, organizational and administrative skills. With a seat on the leadership team, I also contributed to company strategies and partnerships.

•	Closely collaborated with CEO to develop what became an ongoing strategic partnership with a social media personality that led and brand partnership that led to a 15% increase in revenue 
•	An early hire, I was tasked with researching, creating and negotiating automation processes for the company. This included the introduction of Brex, Gusto and other appropriate platforms for startups
•	Provided administrative and operational support in years two and three to the CFO and CTO as well as the CEO with calendar management (including a dozen time zones), global travel arrangements (both commercial and charter) and managing three email boxes that averaged 800 emails per day
•	My new processes for all three executives freed their time to focus on revenue-generating activities and strategic initiatives. Following an analysis in Q4, they were able to reclaim 25% more of their time
•	Acted as company accountant and HR Manager for the first two years saving the company at least $250,000

Executive Assistant to CEO

Mary Ann Butcher Contracting

Mary Ann Butcher Contracting provided executive and personal assistance while traveling to various locations.

Executive & Personal Assistant | Operations Manager
Gained a reputation as a world-class administrative professional capturing high-profile clients across the globe. Oversaw initiatives to streamline daily efficiency, coordinated travel arrangements, planned schedules, and managed calendars. Directed communication that included responding to emails and corresponding via social media platforms.
⬥	Captured high profile clients including executives, reality TV cast members, entertainers, athletes, media & legal professionals, and highly successful entrepreneurs across diverse industries
⬥	Won service contracts with top enterprise companies such as Intel, Cisco, and Pepsi
⬥	Traveled across the world to support clients’ media, analyst, pitches, and industry meetings

Executive & Personal Assistant | Operations Manager

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a multinational entertainment and media conglomerate. ABC Television is an American multinational commercial broadcast television network that serves the flagship property of Walt Disney Television.

Executive Assistant to President of National TV Sales

Managed projects, scheduling, active calendar, and expense report preparation. Prepared confidential communication. Arranged detailed travel plans, itineraries, and agendas. Coordinated meetings, took minutes, and prepared action items
•	Responsible for all administrative duties from multi-time zone and email management as well as personal assistance
•	Streamlined Processes: I evaluated department's workflows and identified areas of improvement, eliminating redundant and inefficient steps. By having fewer and shorter meetings, he was personally able to accompany our senior sales members to client meetings and we saw an increase in his productivity by 25% and increased revenue by 19% because he was able to attend and close the sale
•	Contract & Vendor Review: Leveraged relationships with outside vendors to secure better pricing on supplies and discounts - saving 15% per quarter compared to other divisions as well as departmental travel by 22%
•	Relationship Management: Acted as my executive's delegate in staff meetings for the 250-person department with 11 sales offices and clients like: Coca Cola, McDonalds, Delta, Budweiser, etc. Represented the company at all events including Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden VIP boxes
•	Managing Expenses: In addition to preparing the president's expenses, I audited all that came to him for approval to ensure policy compliance
•	Data Analysis: Provided a daily summary of Nielsen prime time overnight ratings and distributed to the department
•	Event Management: Responsible for employee and client events in 11 cities. In my first year, I shaved 20% off venues by negotiating better contracts. Department's lead on the Academy Awards Governor's Ball

Executive Assistant to President of National Television Sales 

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