Gabrielle Mineroff

I would say there's a couple things in terms of attributing my success. One of the biggest things is learning from great managers early in my career. Because I didn't really know much about the recruitment space, I absorbed everything like a sponge, whether that was feedback, just learning about the insights, observing strong leadership, and then building off of that. I would say consistent work ethic is another major factor. One of my biggest things is showing up consistently, doing the work, even when results aren't immediate. It's easy to get discouraged, specifically in the recruitment field, because of the sales life cycle. But really just powering through that, the results will pay off. So I would say those were the two biggest things - learning from great managers and maintaining a consistent work ethic.

I would say confidence is key, and the good thing is you don't need to know everything to be confident. It's okay to ask questions. I feel like a lot of the times, specifically women, or just in general, are afraid to ask things because they can seem as a weakness. But I always say that you don't need to know everything to have confidence. It's simply being comfortable asking the questions, really being curious about the answers. Confidence is something you build over time through experience, and so as long as you just keep holding on to the fact that you don't need to know everything, that'll come, you'll be great.

I'd say really just don't be intimidated. Everyone has their own learning styles, and it will take a little bit of time for you to get there, but once you find what works for you, take it and run with it, and then you'll be able to be successful. Don't be intimidated by the others. Use the other people's strengths to your advantage and learn from them.

Right now, I would say, which I'm sure a lot of people are seeing as well, AI has been rapidly changing the recruiting landscape. One of the biggest challenges is just maintaining that human level of recruiting. AI can help really automate tasks, but then it also takes over the risk of everyone relying on technology. But you can also use it to your advantage, so with AI, it helps make my job more efficient. I'm able to reduce time on different tasks that take away from other things that I have to do. So it helps with the insights and market trends, and so as long as you're able to use it to your advantage, then it's been a positive help within the organization. You have to stay on top of it, or it can be so overwhelming.

I would say really just having that strong work ethic. I really pride myself on that. Being able to be financially independent, not having to rely on anybody for that. But also really just having that work-life balance is so important. It's easy to really just get so involved in the day-to-day and swooped up into it, but having something that you're excited about outside of work, whether that's being with friends and with family, and just keeping that center at everything that I do really helps with the values for me.