Valerie Watson-Smith Sr. Career Consultant
Throughout her career, Valerie Watson-Smith has recruited for all types of positions, including software developers, operating systems engineers, networking and communications experts, managers, marketers, operations analysts, and many more. She specializes in high-tech professional positions, but her expertise covers nontechnical recruiting as well. Valerie Watson-Smith has also worked in the health care industry at Kaiser Permanente, where she hired personnel in medical records, training, project management, registered nursing, data consulting, and many other areas.
Entrepreneurial and goal-oriented, Valerie Watson-Smith has over a decade of experience building teams for high tech companies. She joined the staffing industry after graduating from California State University, Fresno, with a B.A. in Social Welfare. Her position as a Technical Recruiter at Cisco Systems, Inc., introduced her to the field of human resources (HR). At Cisco, she learned many of the basic skills that still serve her today, including recruiting, prescreening, and hiring, not to mention more general HR responsibilities. After Cisco, Valerie Watson-Smith moved on to more specialized technical recruiting jobs at Compression Labs, Inc., and Electronics for Imaging. Ms. Watson-Smith has also worked for DBM, Intuit, and Tellabs. At Tellabs, she filled 60 critical positions in just 10 months by collaborating with senior executives and HR personnel to hire key engineering staff and managers.
Valerie Watson-Smith decided to take the entrepreneurial path and opened her own consulting company. In this capacity, she served as a team leader for a project shared by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Working with the newly created Transportation Security Administration, Ms. Watson-Smith recruited passenger screeners for airports across the country. Other companies that Valerie Watson-Smith has recruited for include AOL Inc./Netscape Communications Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Inc., BEA Systems, Inventa Technologies, Inc., and LifeScan, Inc.
Entrepreneurial and goal-oriented, Valerie Watson-Smith has over a decade of experience building teams for high tech companies. She joined the staffing industry after graduating from California State University, Fresno, with a B.A. in Social Welfare. Her position as a Technical Recruiter at Cisco Systems, Inc., introduced her to the field of human resources (HR). At Cisco, she learned many of the basic skills that still serve her today, including recruiting, prescreening, and hiring, not to mention more general HR responsibilities. After Cisco, Valerie Watson-Smith moved on to more specialized technical recruiting jobs at Compression Labs, Inc., and Electronics for Imaging. Ms. Watson-Smith has also worked for DBM, Intuit, and Tellabs. At Tellabs, she filled 60 critical positions in just 10 months by collaborating with senior executives and HR personnel to hire key engineering staff and managers.
Valerie Watson-Smith decided to take the entrepreneurial path and opened her own consulting company. In this capacity, she served as a team leader for a project shared by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Working with the newly created Transportation Security Administration, Ms. Watson-Smith recruited passenger screeners for airports across the country. Other companies that Valerie Watson-Smith has recruited for include AOL Inc./Netscape Communications Corporation, Silicon Graphics, Inc., BEA Systems, Inventa Technologies, Inc., and LifeScan, Inc.