About

Amber Thompson is a highly experienced Talent Acquisition Leader with 8 years of experience recruiting in various industries, including IT/engineering, healthcare, legal, financial, sales, and customer service. She specializes in recruiting hard-to-fill positions, on the C-Suite/Executive, R&D/technical and business side, both exempt and non-exempt, in a highly competitive environment, attracting and hiring only the top talent on the market. Amber thrives in a fast-paced, high-volume working culture, managing multiple requisitions at one time, filling positions across various locations, both U.S. and abroad. As an experienced full-cycle recruiter, Amber has partnered with the Executive team, stakeholders, and hiring managers, across the organization in all phases of the recruiting process, including forecasting growth plans, personnel augmentation, change management, creating job descriptions and requisitions, candidate search, candidate interviews, market-competitive offer negotiations, and employee on-boarding. She prides herself in increasing team rapport and employee engagement through company-wide activities, including volunteerism and team-building. Amber is an organizational wizard and loves implementing well-flowing, efficient Talent Acquisition processes, procedures, recruiting practices, and strategy. She leads talent acquisitions for Complexus Inc. by hiring for all positions, including c-suite, elite senior technical staff, sales, and admin to meet a broad set of domestic business needs. She has managed recruiting teams through full-cycle recruitment processes, coached and developed teams, and utilized recruiting tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, CareerBuilder, Indeed, DICE, StackOverflow, HackerRank, social networking, and University alumni groups. Amber has also worked as a Talent Acquisition Specialist at NextGen Healthcare, where she navigated her passion for connecting top-notch talent with high-value careers. Additionally, she has worked as a Business Development Manager & Recruiter at Elwood Professional, where she supported financial and strategic objectives by developing new accounts and maximizing sales with existing accounts in the San Diego area. Amber holds a degree in Economics and Theatre from the University of Southern California. She has a relevant experience of 10.95 years and has a tech stack that includes Search, Software Engineer, and test. Amber is a leader who instinctively brings out the determination in each member of her team through employee coaching, increasing their work product, value, and elevating the team as a whole. She welcomes new team members with excitement and clarity through detailed and engaging on-boarding processes and orientations.