portfolio
Blogs
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Is Gen Z Ready for Reopening?
As the world prepared to reopen, so did we - by reporting Gen Zs perceptions on what they want (and need) from employers.
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5 Tips to Improve your Job Description to Early Talent
I partnered with Handshake’s product team to write best practices that supplemented our JD health checker in-product.
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How Handshake Democratizes the Early Career Job Search
In this post, I explored how Handshake promotes equal opportunities and empowers students to find jobs.
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7 Ways to Stand Out at Virtual Career Fairs
With virtual tactics here to stay, I coalesced best practices for engaging with students before, during, and after virtual fairs.
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Introducing Handshake's Honor Roll
I worked on launching this monthly recognition campaign in close collaboration with our PR/Comms team.
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6 Employer Strategies to Address the Digital Divide
While virtual recruiting leveled the playing field for some, not all students benefitted. In this post, thought leaders explore why.
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How to Remove Hiring Bias from the Recruiting Process
Another thought leadership post I wrote to help employers tackle hiring bias head-on with actionable strategies.
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Why the Core Schools Strategy Doesn't Work
Recruiting from core schools may be common, but it's not the smartest move. I co-wrote this post to debunk why.
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How Informal Conversations Drive Relationships
This post is another example of my experience writing product marketing content to drive awareness and adoption.
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8 Dos and Don’ts of Messaging Underrepresented Students
In this post, I helped employers master the art of messaging underrepresented students with inclusive outreach tips.
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Why Strong MSI Partnerships Lead to a Better Workforce
In this post, I chronicle the signifance of tapping into lesser-known MSIs to grow your recruiting funnel.
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Future-Proofing an Aging Workforce
30 million Americans are expected to retire in the next decade. This post explains how Gen Z can ensure workforce continuity.
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Handshake’s Virtual Campus Recruiting Suite
Team Handshake responded to digital transformation with this product, which I lead product marketing for.
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Creative Ideas for Your Virtual Internship Program
With the shift to remote, employers started offering virtual internships. I wrote how they created memorable experiences.
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4 Steps to Onboard Your New Hires Virtually
This post was part of a quick-response series that helped teams navigate remote or hybrid.
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Support Early Talent through Project-Based Work
While some employers scaled back on internships during the pandemic, we wrote about the benefits of micro-internships.
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4 Ways to Prepare for On-Campus Recruiting
One of Handshake’s top posts that helped grow the blog included tips to help recruiters save time on campus.
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Will Early Talent Want to Work for Your Company?
A key tenet of my content marketing strategy at Handshake was to complement each blog with a downloadable guide.
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Fall for Smarter Features from Handshake
My first product launch at Handshake in 2019 included a detailed landing page, which I created in days (see below).
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Top 7 Myths About Volunteering Debunked
At VolunteerMatch, I’d partner with other nonprofits and contribute content, like this piece for Giving Compass.
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Why Students Should Volunteer
My first post for VolunteerMatch X Giving Compass, a platform to help donors learn about issues and get involved.
Campaigns
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Handshake Product Release
As a scrappy team of 3 marketers back in 2019, I took initiative to create a product landing page to amplify our biggest release — and throttle pipeline and website conversions.
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2021 Early Talent Awards
I created and led our inaugural awards program and marketing campaign, which celebrated 120 of the most legendary employers inspiring tomorrow’s leaders today.
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2022 Early Talent Awards
In its second year, we up-leveled the campaign to include more exciting activations like swag, year-round spotlights and celebrations, non-winner enablement, and more.
Case Studies
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Benchling
Benchling provides a cloud-based platform that allows scientists to design, analyze, and share experiments, and manage their research data and workflows.
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Equitable Advisors
Equitable Advisors offers financial services and solutions to help clients achieve their financial goals, with a focus on retirement planning and investment management.
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PayPal
Equitable Advisors offers financial services and solutions to help clients achieve their financial goals, with a focus on retirement planning and investment management.
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Under Armour
Under Armour manufactures performance apparel, footwear, and accessories designed to empower athletes everywhere, with a focus on innovation and technology.
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Amgen
Amgen is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing and manufacturing human therapeutics to treat serious illnesses and improve patient outcomes.
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Kraft Heinz
Kraft Heinz is a multinational food company that produces and markets a wide range of packaged food products, including condiments, snacks, beverages, and frozen meals.
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Box
Box offers a cloud content management and file sharing platform that enables individuals and businesses to store, share, and access files from anywhere.
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M&T Bank
M&T Bank is a financial institution that offers a range of banking and financial services to individuals, businesses, and institutions.
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Addison Group
Addison Group is a professional services firm that offers staffing and recruitment solutions, helping businesses find top talent across various industries.
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McDonald's
This global fast-food chain that serves burgers, fries, and other fast-food items at affordable prices needs no introduction. Its franchise model operates in over 100 countries.
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Epic
Epic develops software for healthcare organizations to improve patient care, clinical workflows, and research through electronic health records and other tools.
Event Content
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CPO Leadership Series
At Knoetic, I produced a three-part webinar series on the trends and challenges that are top of mind for CPOs today.
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Handshake Access 2022
I produced content for several keynote and breakout sessions for Handshake’s first annual multi-sided conference.
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Find Your Next 2021
In Handshake’s first-ever annual employer conference, I had the distinction of leading nearly all of the content production.
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Find Your Next Launch
I created and oversaw content from start to finish for Handshake’s virtual fair product launch event.
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Going Digital Webinar Series
I quickly and effectively turned around content for a 3-part webinar series on pivoting to digital during the pandemic.
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Executive Wine Tastings
I developed compelling content and wrote persuasive Q&As for a series of high-level virtual wine tastings.
Marketing Collateral
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Ultimate Guide to DE&I
Although this asset was recently reskinned, I produced the first version which became our #1 downloaded piece of content and a top performer on paid and organic channels.
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Advocate Playbook
Handshake Advocates enables recruiters to invite company representatives into the recruiting process. In this playbook, we document how employers can benefit from it.
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Guide to Recruiting at HBCUs
This resourceful guide quickly became one of our top downloads, thanks to its breadth, thought leadership, and list of applicable colleges to partner with.
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Virtual Events Playbook
For this playbook, I put on my product marketing hat on to produce a step-by-step prospect and customer-facing guide for adopting Handshake's new virtual events feature.
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Guide to Recruiting from Home
During the early days of the pandemic, we quickly assembled a helpful and holistic guide for recruiters to reach their goals using Handshake while working remotely.
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Career Fair Playbook
Hosting career fairs is one of the most promising initiatives in campus recruiting. We wrote this playbook to guide prospects and customers on how to optimize fairs in Handshake.
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On-Campus Checklist
Leading up to the fall — the busiest campus recruiting season of the year — I put together a checklist to help employers stay on top of planning (and stand out at a career fair).
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Diversify Your Workforce
Accompanying my wide range of writing skills, I put together this datasheet to help illustrate a key Handshake value proposition — recruiting with a lens on DEI&B.
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Find Your Next Engineer
This punchy and infographic-heavy whitepaper detailed the breadth of Handshake’s STEM talent and included tips for how employers can engage them.
Press
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3 Mistakes to Avoid if You’re Hoping to Hire Black Grads
At Handshake, I regularly ghostwrote thought leadership pieces for executives — including this article in Quartz.
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This Website Will Match You With the Right Opportunity
As VolunteerMatch's official spokesperson, I publicized ways do-gooders can explore their passions with a cause.
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15 Creative Ways to Volunteer and Make a Difference
In this article, I shared real stories from volunteers in VolunteerMatch’s network to help inspire others to get started.
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Volunteering is a Win-Win for Seniors and Organizations
As a result of the 2016 presidential election, VolunteerMatch experienced a surge in traffic. In this article, I share why.
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5 Simple Ways to Jump-Start Your Healthy New Year
As VolunteerMatch’s spokesperson, I regularly contributed to thought leadership on behalf of the organization.
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Finding Gen Z Talent in 2020: Three Predictions
Another article I ghostwrote at Handshake offered annual predictions based on lessons and learnings from 2019.
Reports
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Pulse on People Report
Over 2,500 people leaders weighed in on the trends that were top of mind for them in 2022—and how they leveraged Knoetic’s community to address them.
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New Currency of Social Capital
In this report, I explored how early-career job seekers form connections beyond preexisting relationships and produced vignettes to help illustrate the story.
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Who Wins from Virtual?
In another report I led at Handshake, we explored the demographics most impacted by virtual recruiting—and found some pretty interesting results.
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Campus to Career report
In Handshake’s third annual report (the second I led), I covered the latest trends shaping early talent's job search in the era of virtual school, work, and play.
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3 Hiring Practices that Disadvantage Black Students
One of my proudest works involved partnering with our insights team to uncover trends from Handshake’s network.
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Virtual Recruiting Infographic
Preceding our more comprehensive Handshake Network Trends report on the same topic, I produced this infographic to illustrate the impact of our new virtual events product.
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Women in Tech Report
Doubling down on the success of our annual reports, I produced a piece on the skills of Gen Z women in tech and the values they seek in a future employer.
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Campus to Career Report
The first report I worked on at Handshake provided a rare glimpse into the job and networking preferences of Gen Z and resulted in extended thought leadership.
Videos
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Handshake Network Trends
At Handshake, I produced a series of student and employer vignettes to accompany a press-worthy report launch.
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Handshake Customer Stories
I also produced a series of Handshake customer videos for recruiting leaders at HubSpot, Raymond James, and more.
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2021 Early Talent Awards
To amplify the impact of our campaign launch announcement, I led the production of this animated video.
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LinkedIn Tips & Tricks
I produced a series of quick tip-style videos in collaboration with our social media manager and exclusively for LinkedIn.
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Find Your Next 2021
Another Handshake production I led teased speakers, content, and reasons to join for our upcoming employer conference.
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VolunteerMatch Product Video
I was the mastermind behind this product explainer, which uses candy to illustrate VolunteerMatch’s network.
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#GiveTime for #GivingTuesday
I also led the production of this stop-motion video for our social media campaign launch with #GivingTuesday.
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VolunteerMatch on the Street
This “Billy on the Street”-style production quizzes passerbys on their knowledge of sharks for Discovery’s Shark Week.
Let’s Connect
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