Ashley is an Account Manager with Avenica, a staffing firm that specializes in “building a bridge between qualified, recent college graduates and employers with open career track, entry-level positions.” As an Account Manager, Ashley’s role is to oversee the hiring process from the employer side. She will meet with new clients’ HR team on-site and discuss available positions and goals. Ashley’s number one priority is to not only fill positions, but to fill them with candidates that will turn into long-term employees.
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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.
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