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Job Seeker Q&A + Roundtable with Erin Lewber

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 job search strategist, Erin Lewber, and 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.

Erin 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:

Erin Lewber, B2B Sales Leads at Amazon + Resume + Job Search Strategist

Erin is a resume, job search, and interview strategist, award-winning recruiting industry leader, and current hiring manager leading a top strategic sales team at Amazon. Erin uses smart, simple, proven methods to help career changers (especially transitioning teachers and return-to-work moms) remarket and rebrand themselves to land a new role in a new industry. Erin has helped 15K+ job seekers via her free resume template (available on her website) and has successfully helped more than 1K job seekers land new roles they love.

Outside of work, Erin is a big outdoor enthusiast, beekeeper, novice crochet-er (this may not be a word), and spent over 18 months traveling the US in an RV with her husband and two kids. She and her family in the Metro-Detroit area with their two dogs, Coco and Stitch.

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."

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