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Joanne Faille brings to Blackbird Technical Staffing unique and critical dual perspectives, having been both a high-tech career professional and a top-performing high-tech recruiter -- with a passion for both.

 

Joanne Faille

Blackbird Technical Staffing
100 Cummings Center
Suite 424H
Beverly, MA 01915
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Phone: (978) 232-0200
Toll-free: (866) 753-5555
Fax: (978) 560-0633
Email: Joanne Faille

Joanne Faille

 

Joanne's 20+ year career in the high tech sector includes:

10 years in SQA management, building and motivating SQA organizations at companies as varied as Wang Labs, Bitstream Inc., and Eastman Kodak Company.
 
7 years in various senior customer support roles, including beta testing high volume end user products with Fortune 500 companies – “… it’s all about listening and translating input into requirements, and recognizing that requirements are both quantified and perceived. Bottom line, products are about the people who use them – when technology requirements are met, it’s still about people.”
 
5 years as top-performing recruiter at a high caliber placement firm, learning the recruiting and placement business from all angles, and earning credibility and trust from hundreds of employers and job applicants alike

 

Joanne's SQA management career trained her to focus on career goals and personal satisfiers of her clients.

"I still think like a manager. I'm a coach and an enabler. I listen, I ask questions, and I help my clients clarify their objectives and understand their options. I'm also aggressive and straightforward. I'm honest and I pull no punches. I'll do everything I can to remove any obstacles that might stand between you and that perfect job."

Her clients value her empathy and sense of humor as well as her results-oriented approach, energy, and inside-out knowledge of the high tech software industry.

 

Holly Abernethy

Phone: (978) 922-4329
Email: Holly Abernethy

Holly Abernethy    
Holly Abernethy brings to Blackbird Technical Staffing an impressive prior career in both corporate recruiting and HR management, focused on building enhancing technology companies by staffing them with the best and brightest top performers.

Holly has always recognized that no matter how good the business plan, it’s the caliber of the people who determine the outcome.

Holly's 15+ year career in technology companies include:

10+ years as a corporate/contract recruiter who brought exceptional technical talent to companies ranging from incubator stage start-ups (e.g., JuniorNet) to established companies (Fidelity, Kodak, Landmark Communications/WSI).
 
3 years as an HR director. “…though I enjoyed having oversight of a department and its many functions, I could never let go of the recruiting piece since for me, it’s always been where the action is. My unique talent has always been to sense hiring managers’ needs along with that somewhat indefinable ‘fit’ that is so important in building teams that have a little magic in them.”
 
2 years experience in Organizational Development with an emphasis on training in areas including best hiring practices, behavioral interviewing techniques, managing for high performance, conflict and diversity.

 

Holly’s HR background affords real empathy as someone who understands the challenges companies face, along with what technology employees value most in the workplace.

“ We are all working harder and faster than ever before, and often without all the resources we once had. I am often struck by how committed individuals are to the ‘cause’ no matter how high the bar has been set. The best technologists I have seen typically work relentlessly on some code or a bug not for the bonuses or recognition, but because they feel great that what they do really matters to people who use their products. Give them good tools, a plan, a great manager and amazing things can happen. Everyone wins.”

Those who work with Holly find her honesty, direct approach and exceptional humor useful in quickly getting to the heart of the matter. Holly is happiest solving hard problems and making matches that exceed expectations.

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