Influential Woman · Manufacturing

Iveth Fiallos

HR Manager, Superior Glove

Spring, TX

31Years experience

Certifications · Degrees · Memberships

Degree Psychology degree Degree Graduated 1995-1996

Her Story

About Iveth

I started my HR career in 1995 as an assistant in the corporate offices of Fruit of the Loom in Honduras, where I put together information for special reports to send to corporate in the U.S. and organized motivational activities across all five facilities. I was responsible for everything in HR except payroll, coordinating with all the HR managers across the facilities. After taking a break from 2006 to 2015 to work as a homeroom teacher and teach psychology and elementary education while raising my young children, I returned to HR in 2016 or 2017. I worked as HR Manager for manufacturing companies including Dickey's, Russell, and Superior Glove, a Canadian company. I also spent three years as an office manager for a fruit and vegetable distributor, where I handled administrative work, confidential matters, and was the go-to person when the president wasn't in. My most notable achievement has been giving my team a sense of ownership and aligning our HR roles and responsibilities to the company's main goals, training my team to think about what's best for the company and not only for our team. I recently relocated to the U.S. in November of last year to be closer to my children and am currently seeking new HR opportunities.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Iveth

01What do you attribute your success to?

I think I'm a resilient human being. I'm not laid back, but I am the type of woman that has learned to choose her battles. There are battles that are not worth fighting, or they're not yours. You just have to try to stay focused on what's important and not let those little things get you off track.

02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

Work hard and don't do things for others to see you. I think it would be integrity - do what you have to do even if people aren't looking, because the rest will take care of itself. The applauses will come if you're hardworking and you're doing your job in a consistent way, with integrity. Everything is going to come into place.

03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

I would say learn. Learn from others, learn from mistakes. Even if you make a mistake, don't take it so harsh, because you need to make mistakes to learn. You need to fail at some point, because that's going to be like a trampoline - you go down, but then you go up. Learn from your mistakes, learn from others, don't think you know everything, especially now with technology and AI. There are things that are going to come that you're going to learn by experiencing them. It doesn't matter how much you know, how much knowledge you have, how much school you have, there are things that you're going to have to live and experience so that you can become that expert. Always be humble and learn from others.

04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

I think that HR is a very important department in a company, but sometimes it's underestimated. When things go wrong, it could be HR's fault, but when things go right and in a good direction, it's hard for others to share that with HR. Sometimes I've seen that it's not easy to get an acknowledgement of all the work that is done. I mean, we're doing our jobs, it's our responsibility to do it, but it's nice sometimes for other teams and other departments to acknowledge that we are a team, that you did not do that by yourself. It was a team effort, a team work result. That's one of the challenges I see.

05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?

Most definitely, integrity and honesty. There are many things in HR, especially in the labor relations area, that are not popular. They're decisions that corporate or management decides that are not completely beneficial for both parts. But you have to try and be the most honest possible with your team members, because they're the ones making that company grow and move. Try to be as honest as possible with them, and try to do the best for them without harming any of the company's goals or objectives, without interfering with the growth of a company. It has to be a win-win. I always try for everything, every outcome to be a win-win.

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