Speaker Bio

With a business degree from University of Washington, followed by 24 years of high tech sales and management experience in large and small companies, including NCSS, Dun & Bradstreet Computing, Comshare, Carlyle Systems, and GEAC, Colleen Aylward came to the Recruiting industry in 1990 on a soapbox of Change.

Drawing on twelve years “on the other side” in Tech Support, Sales, and Regional Management, she transitioned to high tech recruiting in 1990 here in the Seattle area. She founded Devon James Associates, Inc., one of the country’s first RPOs, to answer the progressive demands of local software vendors seeking MORE/BETTER/NOW. Her small firm has compiled an impressive repeat-client list simply by word-of-mouth (Visio, SPRY/CompuServe, Amazon, Alias/WaveFront, Cranium, InfoSpace, Rhapsody Networks and others). High energy, funny and slightly irreverent, she has authored articles such as “How To Write A Resume For the 90’s That Will Save Time and Deodorant On the Interview”, and is hired by client companies who need someone who has walked in their shoes and can think outside the traditional recruiting box.

Colleen and her unique approach have been mentioned in publications such as Barron’s, Forbes, Fast Company, Washington CEO, Smart Money, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Puget Sound Business Journal, and others.

From her work in the recruiting industry, Colleen’s passion has come to focus on technology solutions to solve the angst of those hiring managers she deals with on a daily basis: How to save time and money on recruiting and HR processes without sacrificing quality hiring results, and even further… how to revolutionize the entire process of talent acquisition, onboarding, training, retaining, managing, promoting and exiting your human capital. She believes that technology has, in many ways, hindered productivity instead of helping, and thus, has has been developing some game changing systems that take advantage of the latest technology and contribute vastly to the bottom line.

Now, with 1,600 Google hits to her name, and launching her 3rd small company, InterviewStudio.com, she still embraces 12-16 hour work days saying “it’s the passion around what you do every day that keeps you interesting”. Colleen Aylward can be reached at Devon James Associates, Inc. at colleen@devonjames.com or at InterviewStudio.com at colleen@interviewstudio.com

Session: The Future of Video Tools in the Employment Market - What's the ROI?

Are we being swept away by the hype and entertainment value of video for multi-media candidate profiles and employment branding, or is there really something behind this craze that will make a real difference to the bottom line? A lively informative and thought-provoking discussion of the groupings of these video tools on the market today, coupled with ROI discussions of the growing value of due diligence, cost of interview travel, time to closure, and the shift in control of candidate profile information, including the inherent risks and responsibilities.