-: My name is Ashley Fogarty, and I'm an account manager.
My role here in the Twin Cities is to
help build relationships with our existing client base
and help expand those for future opportunities,
and then to also help provide guidance and support
to our recruiting team so they know
what kind of candidates to look for.
We work with a wide variety of clients
in a ton of different industries, so for us personally,
we work on general business entry-level positions.
So instead of being siloed into one industry
like IT for example, we kinda flip that
and we focus on all sorts of companies.
So we work with marketing companies,
startups, tech firms, some IT positions,
insurance brokerages, all at the entry-level.
So if our sales team brings in
a new client, then they come to me
'cause I manage all of our existing clients.
So the first step that I do is I go on site with them
and sit down and have a meeting with the hiring manager,
maybe members of the HR team, members of the team
that the person's gonna work on,
and really just get to know them first.
Get to know the department, what their personalities
are like, what the culture of the company is.
Then we dive into the position
and what that's gonna look like day to day.
And then we talk about the type of candidate
that's gonna work well, so really just
getting to know the company as a whole.
There could be two job descriptions
that are really really similar,
but two totally different people
are gonna do well in those positions.
So that's what I'm really trying to find out
is what's gonna be the best person for a long-term fit.
So we partner with over 900 different colleges
and universities across the US,
and so we get people in from all of those different schools
through career fairs and their career services departments,
through online job postings and applications
and a really strong referral network.
So candidates apply to us and come in that way,
we take them through a series of different interviews
starting with a phone interview,
then if they go well through the phone interview,
then they come in for a second round
in-person interview with our team.
From there, if we feel like they're a great fit for us
then they join our talent network and that's when they're
considered for roles with our clients.
It's a typical Monday through Friday eight to five,
there's some flexibility in that,
we have a pretty small team in our Twin Cities office
on the operations side, there's four of us
so we're flexible with each other,
we understand life happens and sometimes when there
isn't the right fit, I have to let someone go
and I can't do that in the middle of their work day
so I have to wait 'til after work.
There is some travel involved,
not a ton in our region because we're mainly focused
on the Twin cities area, but I'll travel a lot to
client meetings around the Twin Cities metro.