Shaira Tiamson

I've been working in staffing and recruiting for about 6 years now. I started my career back in 2017 when I was still a college student in the Philippines. My family was facing financial problems and my parents couldn't send me to school anymore, but I had two more years of college left and I didn't want to stop. So I started working as a virtual assistant for an IT company based in Chicago. During the day I was a full-time college student, and at night I was a full-time employee. I had zero knowledge and zero background in recruitment when I started, but after a couple of months they promoted me to recruitment coordinator, and that's where my journey in the recruitment field really began. Since I started my career with an IT company, I liked recruiting people and interviewing people on the technical side, so I stayed in that field. My experience has been a mix of both agency and in-house recruiting, and both technical and non-technical roles, but it's predominantly within the technical side, like IT and software engineering. In five years, I see myself starting my own agency. I really like helping clients out and filling really hard-to-fill roles, so I kind of see myself doing the same thing with a mix of being a consultant and a business owner.