After years of surviving loss and trauma, I finally asked myself what I truly wanted and realized I had to lose myself to find myself. My story is still unfolding.
Bernadette Taddie · In Her Own Words
Her Story
About Bernadette
Bernadette's Recruiting career started in 1995 in Silicon Valley, California. Having led and managed Teams, as well as locations, she thrives in a high pace, high energy environment, and her driving force always has been exceeding expectations, as well as driving customer service.
An Organizational CULTURE of who she represents, and or work for displays her in every aspect of Networking, Advertising, and Professional engagement. Integrity, Empathy, and Creativity is her gas in not just self-value, but professional value. Building Relationships within every aspect of her professional and personal life requires her to not just be authentic, but to earn trust as a foundation to build success.
Within her wheelhouse of 25 plus years of career experience, Bernadette has not been limited to any part of recruiting. She has worked high volume accounts, contracts, temp-hire, and direct. Working closely with both managers, company owners, as well as applicants. She has skill marketed resumes, head hunted, generated B2B, implemented and created SOP, as well as KPI’s. Spending multiple hours setting up job fairs, attending company events, saturating hard to fill markets, and kicking off new creative ideas to drive traffic, and build business relations. Thriving on platform programs with news, celebrations, upcoming opportunities, as well as LIVE media to share knowledge, and set the tone for success. Her passion is service on any level that supports a company, a person, as well as the empathy of knowing how trust is built through consistency, as well as follow through.
Over the years, she has held a wide range of leadership roles including Onsite Recruiting Manager, Branch Manager, Director of Recruiting, District Manager, and Multi-Unit District Manager. She is widely recognized for her ability to step into challenging environments, stabilize operations, implement SOPs and playbooks, and build ore rebuild teams and systems from the ground up. Throughout her career, Bernadette has developed a strong reputation for building high-performing teams and coaching individuals to reach their full potential. Her leadership style is hands-on and deeply personal—she thrives on working directly with team members, providing mentorship, shadowing performance, and identifying opportunities for growth and improvement. She has consistently been trusted by organizations to transform underperforming operations into structured, efficient, and successful teams. In addition to her extensive recruiting background, she expanded her expertise into the fitness industry, serving as a District Fitness Manager and earning her NASM certification as a Fitness Nutrition Coach. Currently, Bernadette works remotely as a Global Contract Recruiter while also launching a new business venture aligned with her passion for service and impact
She is now co-creating an amazing NEW Chapter of Entrepreneurship to build a LEGACY of MENTORSHIP in giving back to what she can, a prior life of SURVIVING. To not only be the BEST version of yourself, but to FALL in-love with living your life, is the HEART of her business. Within the SOURCE of what she calls, the HEARTBEAT, it will not only provide the necessary tools to overcome and LIBERATE individuals in DRIVING to be their own light of SELF VALUE and WORTH, but it will also be there GREATEST PROJECT of Phycological Integrity.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Bernadette
01What do you attribute your success to?
My success is and will never be measured within a materialistic Value, my attribute to my success is SELF - LOVE, and within Saving my Own Life, I have been able to discover: Self Discipline, Self-Motivation, Self Value/Worth, and finding the Strength and Courage to do what most individuals cannot, and that is to PERSEVERE.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
The best advice I would give anyone is to believe in yourself always. To believe you can do anything, you have every tool within your reach to pull from to co-create any life you want. If you choose to be a Recruiter, understand you are entering into a Service Driven profession. You will not only service your clients, but your applicants are just as equally important. Communication and building trust should always be your foundation. Follow up and follow through will create an amazing pipeline of reference building, as well as your own integrity. The juggling act is real, so ensure you create a daily/weekly plan to follow to ensure you are balancing all areas of Recruiting. Hard to fill positions with applicants can be tricky, it will require you to think outside the box, as well as find the spotlight of features and benefits for those harder applicants of choice.
Have an enthusiastic mindset and remember that you always want more in your pipeline!
03What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
My future ahead as well as what I am leaving behind is the most important thing for me at the moment. Creating a legacy to be proud to leave behind that centers around our generations to come filled with purpose, self-love, success, hope, learning, growing, and most importantly giving back to others.
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