Carolyn Christie

ASCENDING Inc.

Director of Client Accounts

Carolyn Hawkins Consulting LLC

President

Addison Group

Addison Group is a leading provider of professional staffing and search services. Bringing the best to the best, Addison combines a national network and localized service for broad reach with a personal touch. Specialized practices deliver the right candidate at the right time in Administration & HR, Engineering, Finance & Accounting, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Information Technology. Addison received Inavero’s 2014 Best of Staffing award for both Client and Candidate service.

Senior Internal Recruiter

Internal Recruiter

BSI Financial Services Inc

BSI is the premier business process outsourcing provider specializing in mortgage subservicing, default management, loss mitigation, due diligence, REO and quality control services to over 240 lenders and investors. Leveraging its unique global delivery model and 22 year track record of success, BSI provides its clients with unique, customized solutions to improve service quality, lower costs and make its clients' loans worth more. BSI has earned its name in the industry by consistently exceeding client expectations and being a true partner in our client’s business plans. BSI is an approved servicer with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, HUD, VA and several private investors, hard money lenders and hedge funds. 

Our clients rely on us to make sense of the array of choices they face while trying to make smart changes to keep their organizations, lean, focused, and profitable. The operating model here can be summed up in one word – trust. Our clients know that we are in partnership with them for the long haul and that we have their interests in mind at all times. As stated in our management principles, we commit to client satisfaction as our most important business objective. We are in the business of adding value.

Recruiting Manager

HireStrategy

HireStrategy is a full-service professional staffing firm providing contract, direct hire and executive search solutions for employers in the Washington DC area. Our diverse client base represents a wide range of industries, including technology and media, financial services, professional services, energy & green technology, federal services, education and non-profit organizations.

Our recruiters specialize in providing candidates with personalized career management advice and placement services in the Technology, Finance & Accounting, Sales & Marketing, Recruiting & HR and Administrative fields.

HireStrategy has been ranked the No. 1 staffing firm in the Washington DC area, honored by Inc. magazine as one of the 500 fastest-growing firms in the country and named a "Future 50" firm by Washington SmartCEO magazine. We've also been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by the Washington Business Journal, as well as a "Best Place to Work" by Washingtonian magazine.

Our executives are recognized thought leaders in their fields, regularly contributing their insights on economic, employment and workplace issues to the Washington Post, USA Today, the Washington Business Journal, the Wall Street Journal and major broadcast and cable television networks, including NBC, CNN and PBS.

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Director in Finance and Accounting

Medix Staffing Solutions

Personnel Consultant

The Mergis Group

Executive Recruiter

Comtech Mobile

Accountant Assistant

Founder- Are you hiring? My team can help!

Top Social Media Networker with a demonstrated history of thinking outside the box to find top candidates for hiring companies.  

Check out my content, open to collaborations!

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Chief Executive Officer

I’m sorry. 

I’m sorry for the multiple hiring posts in one day.  

Actually I’m not sorry at all.   I’m ecstatic.  

Seeking 4 inside sales reps DC metro experience must have a call center type of background OR some kind of sales experience. Looking for attitude and hunger huge opportunity here to learn the exciting industry of real estate and mortgage.  

Seeking a junior real estate major or maybe finance/ business major with experience in real estate or mortgage.  Will take internships.  Perfect opportunity to learn from the best.  

Sales/Ops Manager needed in DC metro must have experience coming out of home services industry of some kind.  This individual will monitor and drive the sales team/technicians. 

Who wants a job because I’m not stopping. 

We are getting so many of you hired or SO HELP ME. 

Boost this post because hiring posts are the most important posts on LinkedIn.  

Comment for reach. Pretty please cherry on top 🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒

I help founders avoid paying contingency fees. WAITLIST for new clients.

Data-Driven Operations Leader | Digital Healthcare | Strategic Planning | Partnerships | Business Planning And Analysis | Servant Leadership

I have led transformative projects with small teams at startups and large global teams for a Fortune 15 company. I am passionate about empowering others and driving positive change in the world.

I'm a lifelong learner who knows that strong operations, solid strategic planning and a culture of good communication are the pillars for success. 

My team has been responsible for multi-million-dollar CRM/ERP implementations, creation of analytics frameworks, development of sales, marketing, and implementation playbooks, and 10+ Mergers and Acquisitions.

My career focus has been in the healthcare/medical device/digital healthcare space, but I am open to other industries. My experience spans sales, strategy, business development, marketing, operations and analytics providing me with a comprehensive understanding of the whole ecosystem.

Highlights Include:

* Developing a comprehensive enablement plan and revamping the sales and marketing processes and workflows, which led to a 45% improvement in forecasting accuracy.

* Implementing operational workflow changes in marketing, professional services, and sales, saving over 20 hours per week and $500k annually in administrative costs.

* Overseeing the integration of 10 M&A projects resulting in annual operational cost savings of over $2M by eliminating redundant processes.

* Introducing a cross-functional whitespace tool that identified $20M in overlooked pipeline opportunities.

* Establishing a telehealth care model that increased patient volumes by 30%.


My skills include:

Operational Leadership
Business Planning
Healthcare and Medical Device sectors
Expertise in building Sales/Revenue Operations infrastructure
CRM, CPQ, ERP Implementation and Business Leader
M&A management
Project management
Data Analytics
Change Management 

I can be reached at sherri.carpineto1@gmail.com

Sherri Carpineto

Don’t work for one company too long. Dont job hop. Don’t be laid off. Don’t have job gaps. Don’t show your gray hairs (yes that’s a thing).  

Don’t ask for remote work or hybrid work and maybe not in-person. At least be willing to work in any part of the world. 

Also only apply online but not easy apply and not on LinkedIn maybe Indeed but company websites.

Network but don’t reach out to recruiters. Maybe hiring managers, but only once a year. 

Write cover letters but complain that they’re useless but also say they’re good. 

ATS isn’t real but it’s also very real.

Oh and forget the green banner on Tuesdays but it’s good on Wednesdays. Or when someone wants to rage bait and get impressions. 

Don’t do projects without pay but also don’t say no because you need a job. 

6 rounds is bad, 5 rounds is borderline, 3.5 rounds is perfect 

This basically sums up the state of job searching these days.

It’s exhausting. Debilitating. Unstable.

And if you’re laid off or looking for a new job, it’s your reality. 

Just never give up on YOU, and control how you show up every day. 

Be a good human

Nothing reminds you that you’re unemployed like Thanksgiving dinner.
The questions.
The side glances.
The “you’ll bounce back” pep talks from someone who’s been at the same job since 2004.

It’s not just the layoff that hurts.
It’s being expected to smile through it.

The truth is, layoffs don’t take holidays.
They follow you to the table.
They sit quietly beside the cranberry sauce.
They echo in every “So what’s next?” from a cousin you haven’t seen in five years.

You don’t need to perform gratitude just because it’s November.
You’re allowed to feel the grief, the fear, the fatigue.

Not everything needs a silver lining.
Not every loss needs to be “a blessing in disguise.”

Sometimes it’s just hard.
And that’s the most honest thing you can bring to the table.

Be a good human

My husband called me early this morning to pick him up, his car was undrivable after a bad accident.

Not the 7am call anyone wants. Or the call anyone wants ever. 

When I arrived his whole front end of his car was gone. The car likely totaled. The rubber brake pad came slipped off the brake and he hit another car. 

Not on our 2025 bingo card or in our financial plans. 

After a year of incredible challenges - losing our dog, my husband hospitalized and struggling with medical issues, my son injured, stitches in my toe, damage to our home…. 

It’s just….not what we needed. 

It’s been a horrible year of challenges.

But we were able to pay the tow truck driver. We will, with some challenges, be able to get a car with insurance money. 

He is ok, the most important thing. 

And we both have jobs to go to this week.

So many do not. I remember in 2023 when I was in a car accident, hit from behind, when I was laid off. 

The anxiety was even worse. 

If you are so inclined, please help my holiday drive for laid off workers. 

I am happy to provide receipts. 

And target (yes I know we don’t want to support them) has a gift card sale right now if you’re so inclined - that’s great too)

I have many more families to help… but 2025 you’re giving me a challenge 

Please consider giving. 

Please consider sharing your story.

Please comment on this post for more engagement. 

And please let’s hope 2026 is the best year for all of us 🥰

Be a good human

If you are laid off with kids, I’d like to offer help.

If you need some magic and  presents this holiday season we are ready to find ways to support. 

With some wonderful donors (more to come here) and my desire to bring some magic please comment below.

I’ll get to as many as I can.

And if you want to be a helper and donate please comment as well.

Just a gift to LinkedIn community to keep the magic going. We all need it these days. 

No need for embarrassment just pay it forward someday.  We all need to support each other 

Be a good human 

Comment below who we can help and who wants to help. Lists start now. (Can DM too)

PS: I am offering free 15 minute coaching sessions with an emailed plan at the end through the end of the year to those in need — just comment below and I’ll open up as many times as I can in between mom’ing, paid coaching and my busy FT job.  💕

My new job and toilet paper together. 🧻 




You may be wondering why my new job consists of a large box of toilet paper…

Well today we finished our last box from the COVID-era. Yes 2021-ish time frame.

During Covid I was laid off after 15 years. Home-schooling kids, and fearful of what was next for me. 

I landed a new job 5 months later and in 2023 the same year my dad got ill and died, I was laid off again. 

Same anxiety. 

But during Covid so many helped, there was so much community and kindness amongst the fighting about masks 

And this is why this holiday drive means so much to me. 

My new job for the next few weeks consists of making magic for those who don’t have any this year.

And with SO many amazing donors… we are doing just that 

Because the world is upside down. People fight daily but parents and the kids who didn’t ask for layoffs deserve help.

I still have 20+ families I can help. Likely  more I haven’t answered.

If you’d like to donate, ways in comments. 

One more week to get all the gifts delivered on time 

And if not, please just comment and support. 

Because in Covid times it was hard and scary  but people were in together 

Be a good human

https://lnkd.in/efA656g2

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A man commented on my post and told me I’m a “scam” because I coach people in life and careers.

Honestly?
If helping people untangle their burnout, their self-doubt, their Sunday dread, and their “why am I crying in the laundry room again” moments is a scam,  then adulthood is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.

You think I’m the threat?
Buddy, have you seen real life?

People are juggling:
	•	jobs that drain them
	•	kids who need something every 4 minutes
	•	aging parents
	•	a sense of purpose that evaporated sometime in 2019
	•	and stress-snacking behind a closed pantry door

But yes.
My 60-minute Zoom calls are apparently the danger.

Meanwhile the internet is like:
Just manifest!
Just be grateful!
Just hustle!
Just take a bubble bath!

Okay, thanks “experts” that fixed absolutely nothing.

Here’s the truth:
People don’t need perfection.
They don’t need toxic positivity.
They don’t need another corporate buzzword.

They need support.
They need direction.
They need someone in their corner when everything feels heavy.
They need a plan, some accountability and to be seen. 

If that makes me a scam?

Then I’m the nicest scammer on LinkedIn.

And at least I’m out here “scamming” people into believing in themselves again.

Be a good human

Here’s the truth no one wants to admit on LinkedIn:

Gratitude isn’t always inspirational.
Sometimes it’s messy, angry, and born from pure survival.

I’m not grateful because “everything happens for a reason.”
(That’s a lie we tell people so they stop talking about their pain.)

I’m grateful because I lived through things I shouldn’t have had to.

The burnout that companies call “a busy season.”
The layoffs that hit people who gave everything.
The pressure to be a perfect parent, perfect employee, perfect human all while running on empty.
The moments I kept working through heartbreak, exhaustion, and fear because life didn’t give me a choice.

I’m not grateful for any of that.
I’m grateful I didn’t let it harden me.
I’m grateful I held onto kindness when the world wasn’t kind back.
I’m grateful I didn’t become bitter, even when I had every reason.

Everyone posts the polished version of gratitude.

Here’s mine:

I’m grateful I didn’t break.
I’m grateful I didn’t quit.
And I’m grateful I don’t pretend the hard parts didn’t happen.

If your gratitude this year feels complicated, uncomfortable, or a little bit angry, 
you’re not alone.

Some of us are saying “thank you”
not because things were easy, 
but because we survived them

Be a good human

Crazy thought here:
You’re allowed to love your job and still count down to Friday like it’s a national holiday.

Both things can be true.
And honestly?
Most weeks… they are.

Be a good human

“I am embarrass to ask but I have been applying to jobs since June of this year and no luck. 

I take care of my 2 grandchildren boy turning 4 yrs old December 30th and girl turning 3 in May. 

I did not want them to go through the system and my granddaughter was recently diagnosed with autism and I fell on hard times. 

I  get $546 a month for snap and I have exhausted my savings. I have $16 in my account and my rent for December is not paid, car note is 2 months behind. I do some deliveries to try and get some cash on hand but it’s not enough. 

I refuse to put up the Christmas tree because there’s no way I can put any gifts for them. I am also open to work. God bless you and your family.” 

I got this DM from a woman in need.

This is the next family I’m trying to help. 

Please donate to help them and about 20 others in my inbox.

Or please comment to bring attention 

We all deserve holiday magic 

Be a good human

It’s the holiday season aka the busiest time of year to layoff or fire people. 

Goes to show how humanity is just not a part of the work world for so many. 

So the next time a company says, we’re all family. 

Think if your family would fire you and ruin your holidays (they may ruin your holidays but that’s different!) 

Be a good human

Sometimes you just need to grab what you want and hold on tight… even if others don’t think you should have it..

That’s what Cooper believes anyway. 

We all need a little bit of unapologetic determination and grit in our lives 

Be a good human. Or a good bloodhound.

If you’re willing to donate to laid off parents who need some presents this holiday season please comment 

If you need help with presents please comment and I’ll get back to you for details 

Thanks for giving starts now 

Be a good human

Thank you LinkedIn. Thank to this amazing community. 

YOU all are the magic.

Hoping to keep it going for the next week.

Together it’s possible.

If you’re laid off… there IS hope 

There is kindness.

There is help 

Be a good human 

https://lnkd.in/efA656g2

More links in comments 

Still more wish lists to fulfill 

Anyone have connections to get a Switch 2 for a single mom with special needs kids? 

A giant beanbag chair for an autistic boy who wants to read? 

PlayStation gift cards?

New sneakers for teenagers?

Lots of arts and crafts?

graphical user interface, text, application

Anyone else still not used to the time change?

Because every day at 4:58 PM my body politely informs me that we’re done here. 

Shut it down. Bedtime. But…….

 My responsibilities are thinking something else. 

I still have emails, homework help, dinner, laundry, and a sudden existential crisis to handle.

This season is exhausting. But at least we’re all delusional together.

Be a good human

If you post an open to work post PLEASE make sure it’s set to allow everyone to comment not just connections. 

I see so many who have it set to connections only (I have done this accidentally) and it can greatly limit your reach.

Oh and use that Open to Work post to let yourself shine. Don’t waste time and space on your previous company 

S - share what you’ve done 

H - Highlight the impact you’ve made with metrics 

I - Invite others to connect and network with you 

N Niche down instead of saying open to anything and everything 

E - Elaborate on what you want, who you are, and why you matter 

SHINE 

Be a good human

Somewhere along the way, women were told that ambition expires once you have kids.

That choosing flexibility means you don’t care about growth.
That wanting a bigger career makes you selfish.
And wanting a slower season makes you “unmotivated.”

I reject all of it.

Working moms are allowed to want more.
More leadership.
More money.
More time.
More joy.
More balance.
More purpose.
More flexibility.
More LIFE.

You’re allowed to want a promotion.
You’re allowed to want to be home for dinner.
You’re allowed to want to build something of your own.
You’re allowed to dream of a different path entirely.

You’re allowed to want BOTH stability and excitement.
Both rest and ambition.
Both motherhood and career growth.

It doesn’t make you less committed.
It doesn’t make you unrealistic.
It doesn’t make you ungrateful.

It makes you honest.

I wish more women heard this:
Wanting more doesn’t mean you’re failing where you are. It means you’re growing.

And we deserve workplaces and lives that let us grow without guilt.

The Good Human Project
“Coaching with a Conscience”

Be a good human

😢 it’s been an emotional week 


Showing the biggest struggles and the most amazing generosity all at once.

Thank you Feast & Fettle PlayMonster toys and SO many amazing donors.

We will be able to help many…

But stories like yhjs… so many more to help. 

If you need help please reach out… I will do my best 

If you can help please see my comments for donations 

OR please COMMENT AND like and share too

Engagement is hard 

I am also free coaching to anyone laid for before and of the year as time allows before Istart paid coaching again next year 

Thank you for helping 

Thank you for trusting me with your stories 

Thank you for renewing my faith in humanity 

Be a good human.

There is light where there is darkness 


We can’t help everyone but for one more week I am determined to help more 

Even $10 or $20 donation for every person that sees this will help.

No scams. No strings. Just humanity. 

Be a good human 

Ways to help in comments 

OR please COMMENT to increase visibility

https://lnkd.in/efA656g2

“My husband and I both lost our jobs this year and we are still looking for a new positions. I am trying to stay positive but it has been very difficult year for us. 

This Christmas definitely feels a little bit different. We decided not to do any gift exchange but try to get something for our son. I am hopeful 2026 will be better for everyone”

Another DM today. 


I am halfway to my first GoFundMe goal and SO many more inbox like this family waiting to be helped.

If we can get 250 people to donate $25 I could help SO many children this holiday season 

Let’s bring hope and magic to those struggling thanks to corporate decisions 

Be a good human

Stop shaming people who don’t want to work for themselves. 

People who want to work in a company still “bet on themselves.” 

They bet that they know their priorities, desires, and what makes them happy. 

I applaud entrepreneurs as much as I do corporate workers.

You can be laid off at any time just as your business can fail. 

Instead of shame or pretending you’re better than..  let’s meet people where they are.

Some people want meaning, what their own thing, want a job with purpose. 

Some just want a paycheck to find their purpose outside of work. 

Less judgement more help makes the world better. 

Be a good human

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