Loribeth Dalton began her recruiting career in Seattle in 1989 before the existence of job boards and at a time when the Internet was in its infancy. In the first 10 years of her career as a third party recruiter, then corporate recruiting manager, she reviewed over 100,000 resumes putting candidates in the proverbial “yes”, “no” and “maybe” piles. The next three years were spent traveling nationally training over two hundred recruiters a year on the first completely web hosted Applicant Tracking System where algorithms and artificial intelligence replaced the human resume sorting process. She served as a subject matter expert and trainer working with Human Resources departments to optimize their recruiting process for first tier corporations like Johns Hopkins University, American Red Cross, Time Warner, T-Mobile, and GTE. Ms. Dalton leverages her intimate knowledge of ATS systems to guide her clients around the trapdoors of recruiting technology.

“Twenty two years ago when I began my recruiting career my success was in my connections and relationships; today that's more true than ever before. With recruiters being buried in resumes, applicant tracking systems filtering out potentially great candidates based on keywords, and all of us being bombarded by e-mail, the ability to make connections and get visibility with hiring managers before the job is advertised is essential”

Once upon a time, the “hidden job market” implied a human connection to a hiring manager; now social media makes those connections more accessible to those who can learn to master it. In a two-decade career punctuated by dramatically changing recruiting technology, Ms.Dalton has kept pace and leveraged technology to develop a vast global social media network and has evolved her executive career coaching strategy to embrace the movement toward personal branding. Ms. Dalton asserts, “The old adage of its “who you know” has been flipped around. Its far more important “who knows you” and personal branding and social media networking are vital to career management success.”

Entering her 6th year as an executive career coach, Loribeth Dalton is somewhat unique in the career coaching arena in that she has not only served over 500 managers and executives in transition, but has taught career development and managed a career services department in higher education. When asked what sets her apart in the career coaching arena Ms.Dalton replies; “There are likely many coaches who began as recruiters like I did. What I believe makes me an effective coach is that I have been that recruiter reading hundreds of resumes and cover letters a week and doing the interviewing and salary negotiations for my company. This background allows me to give my clients a recruiter’s perspective. I have been part of a team which designed the software configuration so a recruiter does not even see your resume if it does not have the magic formula of key words that match the requisition. I share with my clients strategies of resume writing to deal with this technology. More importantly however is that I myself have had many “career tragedies.” I have been fired, laid off, lost my job and closed my company due to the sudden death of my boss, and have relocated to another state without a job and had to network my way into a position that did not exist. My ability to empathize with the emotional loss and strategize the renewal and reinventing process has been instrumental to my clients’ career transition success.”