Y Scouts

As CEO of Y Scouts, I highlight the connection between purpose and leadership in the recruiting process to transform how people and companies connect through a shared sense of purpose. Over the past 9 years, my efforts have brought this conversation to the forefront in the boardrooms of some of the most highly respected companies across the country.

I’m proud to lead a team of fully-committed recruiting and leadership development experts who find and hire exceptional, deeply-aligned leaders.

Founder and CEO 

Prevail Recruiting

Co-Founder

TruPath Search (formerly Job Brokers, Inc.)

Started my own business with another co-founder called Job Brokers, Inc. which we rebranded to TruPath Search. We offered a full range of recruiting services including: Retained search, executive search, contingent search, contract, contract to hire, direct placement and a full array of research recruitment and market intelligence information gathering.

Grew to over $50M in revenue with clients like University of Phoenix, Goodrich, OMCO Solar, and others.

CEO and Founder

HUNTER Technical - htrjobs.com

In charge of getting new businesses and build sales pipeline for the recruiting team.

Account Manager

Aerotek

Learned from the best on how to recruit great talent in telecomm through seamless operations, professional development, and skills assessment.

Recruiter

CEO | We Find Purpose Driven Executives For Value Aligned Companies

I’m on a mission to change how we hire leaders in this country. Our employees and customers deserve to work with executives who are aligned on the values and the mission of the company, as well as being highly capable. 

The traditional hiring system is broken. Job boards and AI have created an unholy mess of the recruitment process and no one is winning. Candidates are anxious and over-applying, employers are drowning in applications and paralyzed by choice. 

At Y Scouts, we lead with purpose. We don’t advertise roles — we use our covert discovery process to handpick outstanding candidates for your leadership role. We obsess about 3 key characteristics: 

- Relentless learning
- Developing others
- Delivering results

If a candidate has all 3, they fit our Leadership Model and only then do we progress to assessing their experience and capabilities. We look for soft skills, culture alignment and an expectation of excellence.

My early career in recruiting started at Aerotek, one of the biggest aerospace recruiters in the country. A few years later, I started my own firm, Tru Path (formerly Job Brokers Inc.), a company that grew 100% year-over-year for eight years, scaling to $50 million in revenue. 

We hired over 50,000 people across many different industries. Churn was often high, and I realized that to drive real growth in a company's culture, you have to start at the top.

So in 2012, I co-founded Y Scouts, the world’s first purpose-driven executive search firm. We work with dozens of industries, from fashion to fitness, medicine to manufacturing. 

My philosophy is simple: hire like your business depends on it — because it does. 

Ready to find the leaders who are going to take your business further than you could have imagined? Let’s talk.

Max Hansen

Jennifer Bookspan

Bookspan Search Partners

Search Firm dedicated to helping best-in-class companies find next level leaders. With extensive experience in executive search, corporate talent strategy and start-up company leadership, we bring a robust strategy and skillset to connect company leaders with exceptional talent.

Founder

Forbes.jobs

Forbes.jobs is revolutionizing the way that we career. We are building a next generation career platform, connecting the world's top companies, recruiters and talent with endless opportunities for personal and career development. Role includes vision, creation and execution of business plan as well as formation and leadership of initial team during founding phase.

Chief Executive Officer

Zillow

Led the executive recruiting team at Zillow Group with responsibility for overseeing the strategy, leader partnership and team plan for all executive talent roles across Zillow Group. Team strategy includes building a diverse talent network, anticipate future needs and opportunities, cultivate relationships and move with speed and quality while delivering a "best in class" experience.

Senior Recruiting Manager

Recruiting Team Leader for Zillow Home Loans and Zillow Offers Divisions of Zillow Group. 
Responsible for strategy, executive partnership and driving innovative hiring initiatives through continued growth. 
 
Led recruiting team that hired over 1000 people nationally in 9 months to meet business demands
Responsible for architecting strategy and overall plan to drive and execute results to include reviewing business forecast, headcount planning and team demand planning to meet hiring goals
Led a team of 21 with 3 recruiter promotions into leader roles

Created and led the recruiting function for Zillow Offers, a start-up division of Zillow Group. 
Division grew from 10 people to 1000+ and from 2 locations to 22 in 18 months.
Hired, led and developed a team of 10 who brought cutting edge innovation to recruiting including playbooks, diversity initiatives, hiring sprints and continuous process improvement. 

Zillow Group is the leading real estate and rental marketplace dedicated to empowering people with unparalleled data, inspiration and knowledge around homes to help them make better, smarter decisions about where they choose to live.




Glassdoor Awards
Best Places to Work: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
Top CEOs: 2017, 2016, 2014

Recruiting Manager

JMB Consulting

Consulted with organizations to drive recruitment strategy, employment branding and talent infrastructure. Worked with Zillow Group as a recruitment consultant to help them build out a new business and ultimately joined them full-time.

Recruitment/HR/Branding Consultant

Govig & Associates

Partnered with organizations to help find top talent  
Direct involvement in the placement of 1000+ people in career opportunities at various levels.
President’s Platinum Club 16-time award winner out of an office of 70+ peers, top 10% of all recruiters.
Career achievement of driving over 6.5M in revenue.
Proactively helped mentor and lead recruiters and team members across the organization.
Voted “Most Inspiring" in 2016, 2017 and “Most Persistent” in 2015.
Developed and managed clients ranging in size from $5 Million to $34 Billion.
Areas of expertise include sales, operations, accounting/finance, human resources and marketing.
Serviced a diverse group of industries including business & financial services, real estate, technology,   solar, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, aerospace and building products.

Account Executive, Vice President

Company Builder, Talent Innovator, People Leader, Recruitment Strategist, Diversity Champion

With more than 20 years of recruiting experience, Jennifer is fiercely committed to finding the BEST people to create and develop incredible teams. People and company culture matter. Those two ingredients create magic in organizations. 

She is known as a builder and connector and has been involved with new business creation, executive search, multi-role projects, national sales expansions, start-up launches and new leadership roles.

Jennifer also enjoys mentoring and developing her team. She believes in working with people’s natural strengths to bring out their best work and creating opportunities for growth through experience. She is committed to their success and will continue to listen, coach, have empathy and be transparent. 


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