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 HigherPeople’s CEO, Katy Stover, and Scott Asai, a professional coach and speaker helping managers become leaders through soft skills, 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.

Katy and Scott 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:

Scott Asai, Keynote Speaker & Coach of scottasai.com

Scott Asai is a professional speaker specializing in teaching soft skills. He focuses on improving communication, leadership and emotional intelligence. Scott’s brief, conversational and practical style makes it easy for audiences to implement new strategies. His experience includes: B.A in Psychology, M.A. in Organizational Leadership, Certified Professional Coach, Certified Strengths Coach (Clifton Strengths) and TEDx Speaker. In his free time, Scott enjoys spending time with his wife and two kids, working out and playing sports.

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."

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."

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."

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!

Have you ever felt like Goldilocks in your career? You found yourself in a role that didn’t quite feel like a fit, and you can't seem to find the one that's "just right"? Size matters!

Join HigherPeople as we dive into the pros and cons of working at small, medium, and large sized tech companies and how to identify where you'll excel most. We’ll talk through the differing cultures of companies in high-growth stages vs aiming for profitability and how that impacts your compatibility. You’ll walk away with the framework to identify your right company fit and role, along with out-of-the-box tactics for finding those opportunities.

Take the first step in finding a job that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.

Are recruiters reaching out to you daily with job opportunities that sound right up your alley? If not, it may be time to give your profile a makeover. Join HigherPeople for a free workshop teaching you how to optimize your LinkedIn profile that will have job opportunities flooding your inbox.

We’ll share best practices for your LinkedIn profile and how to stand out from the competition. You’ll learn how LinkedIn’s Recruiter platform searches your profile and how the use of keywords, hashtags and backlinks to improve your ranking. We’ll also touch on how thought-leadership and your participation on the platform may boost your profile.