Jeanette Maister
Jeanette Maister is Managing Director and Head of Americas at Oleeo. At Oleeo, Maister drives growth, influences the product and helps customers leverage technology to transform their recruiting efforts. Prior to Oleeo, Jeanette spent most of her career as a recruiting practitioner holding leadership roles at Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, IBM, and Gartner. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with an MBA in Management from Columbia Business School, Jeanette was recognized as a 2018 IT Women of the Year finalist. She also received the Stevie silver 2017 Female Executive of the Year and the 2017 SmartCEO Brava Award.
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Content authored by Jeanette Maister
Doing More with Less: How to Embrace Volume and Emphasize Experience
“Doing more with less” is one of many buzzy phrases being bandied about in 2020. At the same time, as organizations commit to running leaner in this “new normal,” the… Read more
Break the Student Barrier: 8 Lessons Learned
We’re recruiting in a proactive, ethically-minded climate, where initiatives like diversity, inclusion, and belonging take precedence over merely filling reqs. At the same time, talent acquisition teams are already thinking… Read more
Break the Student Barrier: Solving the 1 Percent Problem
If we’re being honest: every industry has its issues. Those unique, deep-seated challenges that seem nearly impossible to uproot, no matter which way the disruptors and agitators approach the… Read more
Break the Student Barrier: Tech, Trust & Management
When it comes to hiring, today’s employers have a lot on their minds. There are skills shortages to contend with, low unemployment rates putting limits on the number of… Read more
Student Outreach and Social Media: Staying Connected
Looking back, it’s easy to associate the most recent generations with significant advancements in media and technology. Gen X sometimes gets called the “MTV Generation,” while Gen Y and… Read more
Student Outreach and Gender: Closing the Gap
In talking about recruiting today’s students, the issue of diversity inevitably enters into the conversation. So much that we already went over the state of the state, calling out… Read more
Student outreach and diversity: The state of the state
to effectively recruit students and younger populations, there needs to be more to the story With the next wave of Generation Z getting ready to march down the aisle… Read more
Open minds: Creating a space for belonging
For years, diversity and inclusion was just that. D&I, I&D. More recently, we’re seeing the definition shift and evolve and adding in a new letter in the process – B,… Read more
Learning New Steps: Making Inclusion Stick
Most of the time, we talk about diversity and inclusion as if they function in tandem and take hold simultaneously. In reality, that’s not always how it happens at a… Read more
Resume Bias is Real: Closing gaps and advancing the screening process
“resume bias is real. What’s more, blind recruitment isn’t solving the problem” At one point in time, resumes functioned as an overview of the person it represented. Name, address,… Read more
Do words perpetuate biases unconsciously through recruiters?
Taking off the blinders As kids, we often heard, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” And sure, this might be considered a decent… Read more
Gender-blind hiring is BS. Here’s why so many companies are failing.
Blind hiring aims to remove any and all identifying information (personal, demographic, etc.) from the recruiting process so that recruiters and hiring managers can evaluate candidates based on… Read more
High Volume Hiring: 7 Ways to Speed Up Your Process
Say the words high volume hiring and many recruiters will start to twitch from anxiety. Once commonly associated with hourly workers, high volume hiring extends to include… Read more
AI may actually be a positive game-changer in diversity recruiting
As a discipline, recruiting is particularly buzzy, driven by innovation in strategies and technologies alike. Over the last few years, two significant trends stand out: artificial intelligence (AI) and diversity… Read more
It’s the Conversions, Stupid
It’s the Conversions, Stupid Candidate conversion metrics are crucial to your successful hiring process. The reason is simple: What you don’t measure you can’t improve. Without studying conversion rates with… Read more
