Consultant at Job Search Consulting for Executives
Greater Seattle Area
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- Job Search Consulting for Executives at Devon James Associates
- CEO at InterviewStudio
- President & Hall Monitor at Devon James Associates, Inc.
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- Contract Lead at "Onsite Recruiting War Room" at several NW companies
- Executive Recruiter at Houser, Martin, Morris
- Regional Director at GEAC Computers
- Director, Eastern Region at Carlyle Systems
- Sr. Account Manager at Comshare
- Sr. Sales Representative at D&B Computing (Dun & Bradstreet)
- Technical Representative at D&B Computing Services
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Colleen Aylward’s Summary
With a business degree from University of Washington, followed by 24 years of high tech sales and management experience in large and small companies, including NCSS, Dun & Bradstreet Computing, Comshare, Carlyle Systems, and GEAC, Colleen came to the Recruiting industry in 1990 on a soapbox of Change.
Having been an executive focused on Client Solutions for years, she made a point to meet with every client company she dealt with. What she found in that down market of the early 90s was a typical Catch 22—clients who needed to ramp up couldn’t afford to. They needed to spend their seed or Series A funding on salaries, not headhunter fees. So she dug back to the "solution selling" training of her background and created one of the first RPOs (Recruitment Process Outsourcers) in the country and called it the Onsite Recruiting War Room model which took off immediately, and has earned Devon James Associates a steady stream of referrals since she founded the firm in 1992.
Colleen and her forward-thinking ideas have been featured in such magazines as Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Washington CEO, Puget Sound Business Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Office.com.
Since 2005, she founded a new venture that will solve even more issues for hiring managers and candidates alike: InterviewStudio -- a bleeding edge software platform that captures everything about a candidate that a hiring manager/recruiter would need to know in order to determine whether to spend the time and dollars to bring him/her in for a round of serious interviews. On one screen in one place, a viewer can see the Resume, a Video Interview, Endorsements from collegues, the results of a 5th-generation online Assessment test, Profile information, LinkedIn profile, and whatever Google has to say about that candidate.
Now running two companies, DJA and InterviewStudio.com, she is doubly dedicated to providing world class services and products to the recruitment industry.
Colleen Aylward’s Experience
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Job Search Consulting for Executives
Devon James Associates
(Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
As part of the Devon James practice, we have begun a series of seminars regarding the necessary and proactive steps in today's world of Job Search for executive candidates.
In addition, we have an intensive one-on-one program in which we walk each executive through a 9-step approach to job search:
- Your Internet Presence and its importance
- Your LinkedIn Profile rules and content
- Leveraging LinkedIn contacts
- Facebook, Twitter, and Blogging
- How to work with Recruiters now
- Joining Resume Databases
- Scanning Job Boards
- What your Resume Should Contain
- About Cover Letters
- Video Interviews
- Online Portfolios or Profiles
- The Devon James “Candidate of the Week” program -
CEO
InterviewStudio
(Privately Held; Human Resources industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
A spinoff of Devon James Associates, Inc. born out of the need for a product that captures everything about a candidate in one place on one screen. We are marketing this to Employers, Recruiters, and Candidates (or would-be candidates). A GREAT leap forward in using progressive technology to save time and money for all parties and move the recruiting industry forward in making much richer and sustainable matches.
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President & Hall Monitor
Devon James Associates, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
October 1992 — Present (17 years 2 months)
Colleen's days are spent heads-down in retained searches for clients needing senior level problem solvers OR throwing private networking parties in a down economy OR monitoring the halls of clients where her professional recruiting teams reside onsite to aid in start-up or scale-up hiring projects. Her startup clients have included such industry pioneers as Amazon, Visio, Spry/Compuserve, Rhapsody Networks, Avenue A, Cranium, InfoSpace, Bocada, Cray, and many others who have depended on her recruiting "war room" model to kick start or restart their revenue machines.
Colleen and her forward-thinking ideas have been featured in such magazines as Forbes, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, Washington CEO, Puget Sound Business Journal, Human Resources, Inc. Magazine, and Office.com. Author of "How to Write a Resume to Save Time and Deoderant During Interviews", Colleen is a writer, speaker, artist, scuba diver, single mom, control freak, and promoter of forward thinking. -
Contract Lead
"Onsite Recruiting War Room" at several NW companies
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
1992 — 2009 (17 years )
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Executive Recruiter
Houser, Martin, Morris
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
1990 — 1992 (2 years )
Executive Recruitment - Started their High Tech Sales & Marketing Practice
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Regional Director
GEAC Computers
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1990 (3 years )
Sales of library automation software/hardware systems to major public and university libraries.
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Director, Eastern Region
Carlyle Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
1984 — 1987 (3 years )
Sales of library automation software/hardware systems to major public and university libraries.
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Sr. Account Manager
Comshare
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CSRE; Computer Software industry)
1982 — 1984 (2 years )
Sold Financial Software to Fortune 1000 companies from base office in NYC until recruited into new library automation market startup by former boss at Dun & Bradstreet.
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Sr. Sales Representative
D&B Computing (Dun & Bradstreet)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DNB; Computer Software industry)
1978 — 1982 (4 years )
Positioned originally in Seattle, WA, sold computing timesharing access to the company's Relational Database (NOMAD) applications on IBM mainframes. Began as Technical Support Representative for partner products in the crosstabulation market. Promoted to Sales Rep and then Sr. Sales Rep. Closed large accounts including Boeing and Puget Power on the West Coast.
Relocated to Philadelphia market and did same there for 2 years until recruited by Comshare and moved to NYC. -
Technical Representative
D&B Computing Services
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
1977 — 1979 (2 years )
