Her Story
About Ruby
Ruby Neill serves as a recruiter at Pinnacle Recruitment Services, a local woman-owned firm based in Bakersfield, California. With four years of experience in executive recruiting, she focuses on technical executive-level positions in the agriculture and oil and gas sectors, partnering with CEOs, CFOs, and HR leaders across the nation through a consultative, relationship-based approach. Ruby earned her degree in Human Resource Management from Cal State University Bakersfield after managing her family's farm in agriculture. She has been a top producer at her firm since joining and was named Employee of the Year last year. Ruby serves on the board of her local Society of Human Resources chapter as Community Outreach Director, where she organizes events and volunteers her time with students in the human resources program at CSUB. She values honesty, loyalty, and transparency in both her professional and personal life and attributes her success to never giving up and staying motivated through industry ups and downs. Ruby advises young women entering the field to be confident, own the room, and trust their intuition as a superpower.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Ruby
01What do you attribute your success to?
I would say just never giving up, staying motivated. There's always going to be ups and downs in any industry, and it's just get back up and continue moving forward. Don't give up on yourself just because there was one low.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've ever received is from my boss. When I first started, I was intimidated to have those hard conversations. She would tell me don't ever say that. Don't put that out in the universe. Don't doubt yourself. You know, jump in and do it. So really just getting your feet wet, and then after that, you find out it's not that scary.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I think be confident in yourself. It could be really intimidating for women to go into this field because you are dealing with higher level executive leadership which is usually male-dominated. So just going in and owning the room and having that confident conversation, building those relationships, it's really important to give yourself the credit and just not doubting yourself, and using your intuition. I think as women that's like our superpower.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Honesty, loyalty, and transparency. Those all go a long way. We don't have to be perfect. If there's something that we don't know we can be resourceful, figure it out, and learn as we go.
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