As the market continues to spiral with a looming recession, job seekers find themselves with lots of uncertainty. Despite what you may feel, startups are still hiring like crazy! Join Gaggle's founder + CEO, Jeff Patterson, along with HigherPeople’s CEO, Katy Stover, for an exclusive, small group roundtable and AMA session where we’ll host a thoughtful conversation around navigating a career move for mid- to senior-level tech professionals.
Jeff and Katy will answer questions about what they’re seeing in the market in terms of compensation, evaluation tests, trends, and more. You’ll also have the ability to get advice from peers, mentors and fellow seekers. Come ready with all your hot questions!
***Hiring managers + recruiters are welcome to join!
About the Speakers:
Jeff Patterson, Founder & CEO of Gaggle
Jeff Patterson is the founder and CEO of Gaggle since 1999. Jeff has successfully bootstrapped the privately held company to more than 160 employees, located across the country. Gaggle provides an early warning system to identify students in crisis and helps protect nearly 6 million students.
Jeff has held every conceivable job at Gaggle including system administrator, salesperson, customer service rep, database administrator, and party-planner. Recently, Jeff has taken on the role of edtech investor and mentor, while he waits for his stand up comedy career to take off.
Katy Stover, Founder & CEO of HigherPeople
Katy is a learner, teacher, problem solver, hustler, networker, and entrepreneur. She started her career teaching Geometry in Washington D.C. as a Teach for America Corps Member. After seeing the inequities in education, she became passionate about teaching students and adults real world skills necessary for the workforce. She worked at Pearson and then General Assembly running massive educational programs.
While at GA, she partnered with Fortune 500 companies, including Booz Allen, Bloomberg, Capital One, The Department of Defense, and Disney, to up-skill and re-skill their teams. After realizing that GA was only solving one piece of the talent puzzle, she sought to learn more about recruiting. She then spent two years learning the ins and outs of recruiting at an executive search firm. Seeing a need to help companies in a 360 fashion, Katy founded Higher People to help companies recruit, re-skill, and retain top talent.
When she’s not working, she’s rock climbing, hiking with her dogs Johnny Cash & Bleu, re-exploring LA, listening to live music, and working on her "adulting skills."