Join the Vantage Executive & Career Services at our next Empower! Hour, where Claire Giancola-Belmares and Annette Villamil will present on “From Outreach to Offer: Navigating Recruiters and Search Firms”
Working with recruiters can be one of the most powerful — and misunderstood — parts of a career transition. Not all recruiters operate the same way — and understanding those differences can transform your job search. This workshop will help you understand the differences between in-house recruiters, agency partners, and executive search firms. We’ll uncover how each type operates, what they look for in candidates, and the best ways to build productive relationships. We’ll also discuss the realities of working with search firms — including what they can (and can’t) do for you — so you can approach every interaction strategically and confidently from outreach to final offer.
Come with your questions!
Claire Giancola-Belmares is a Certified Career Consultant with Vantage Career Services, where she is an outplacement coach and talent management consultant. Claire is a seasoned leader in Human Resources, specializing in human capital acquisition and leading transformational change at the individual or enterprise level to bring out the potential in everyone. She is recognized as a collaborative problem solver and valued business partner. Whether advising executives on complex issues or supporting employees in working through concerns, she listens first, builds relationships that are rooted in mutual respect, and delivers on commitments.
Claire has been exposed to all facets of human resources, talent acquisition, talent management, and HR operations. She has a diverse background in building dynamic teams, strategic workforce planning, developing market/function DEIB specific sourcing strategies, HR technology implementation and optimization, digital and social media recruitment marketing, as well as greenfield start-ups.
Claire started her coaching and consulting firm, True North Talent, after 20+ years inside large organizations in a variety of industries. She has held roles in numerous Fortune 500 organizations, including Regis Corporation, CHS Inc., Thomson Reuters, Target, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, and more.
Annette Vilamill has been helping leaders develop and engage their teams for 35 years, as a C-Suite executive, global transformation leader, consultant, and human resource professional. She has experiences in manufacturing, engineering product development, international M&A, railways, and financial and legal services. She led organizational capability builds in the United States, Great Britain, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. Clients often comment that she can more easily connect to some of the workplace challenges they face, based on those experiences.
She was grateful for the early experience of briefly working with Edward Deming, a quality pioneer, after the organization she served won the Malcolm Baldridge and Minnesota Quality Award. It was during that time she strengthened her understanding of how people and organizations can systemically transform themselves with intention through authentic leadership.
She helps clients clarify their intentions, develop confidence in their abilities, and commit to act. Their coaching journey begins with a partnered discovery process to identify their strengths and natural tendencies that then fold into a leadership roadmap to guide further growth and support personal accountability. This work is followed with regular coaching sessions to support learnings and actionable insights along the way. Clients come away with new ways to balance their own drive for results with a healthy ego and relationships that lead to higher levels of trust and followership.
Claire Giancola-Belmares
Annette Vilamill
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