Her Story
About Stacie
Stacie Garlieb is a career skills coach based in Phoenix, Arizona, who has provided career skills coaching since 1991. Her path began with corporate recruiting for PepsiCo and Drackett Products, a division of Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she recruited college students in Northern California. An opportunity to write a career fair manual for the University of the Pacific in Stockton led her to launch a consulting business focused on preparing students for interviews and career fairs. Today her professional work centers on teaching a four-year career skills curriculum to high school students from August through April and collaborating with business leaders on career fairs. She balances this with extensive volunteer leadership, serving on the board of Special Olympics Arizona where she chairs a major annual fundraising event in Northern Arizona, acting as president of the Women's Golf Association at Continental Country Club, and serving as Panhellenic delegate for the Phoenix Panhellenic Alumni Association representing Kappa Delta after four years as past president. Stacie emphasizes staying current on hiring trends including the impact of AI on resumes and interviews while advising young professionals to build thoughtful, strategic networks and to pause before career-impacting questions, advice she received from her first boss Janice Bower.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Stacie
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I received was from my first boss Janice Bower (spelled B-O-W-E-R). She told me to always take a breath before I asked a question or answered a question that could affect my career. This has helped me pause and reflect, give others space to lead, and avoid overstepping or misinterpreting situations.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Build your network most importantly, and be open to people you might not at first glance think would be a fit. Protect your network - don't just connect with everyone, make it thoughtful and strategic. Baby-step, ask questions of your network about best ways to approach things rather than rushing in as a walking Broadway show.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The number one challenge is staying on top of hiring trends and making sure the curriculum reflects current practices, especially with AI evolving and affecting interviews, resumes, and how hiring managers conduct interviews. The second challenge is balancing volunteer work and industry work, and learning to say no when needed.
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