Profile

Patti Wilson has a 360-degree Perspective on Recruitment.

Her experience encompasses organizational structure and cultural nuance for companies of all sizes and the successful functioning of the high value talent within them. This informs her strategic consulting and prescient advice.

Experienced
Currently, Patti is affiliated with the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Anderson School of Business, UCLA and Stanford School of Engineering as an adjunct consultant and counselor.

Prior to founding her first company, the Career Company, she was an Employment Manager: Sun Microsystems, a business and technical recruiter at Advanced Micro Devices, and Apple Computer.
Patti was also Assistant Director of Career Services Santa Clara University, School of Engineering.

Established
With an MA, Career Development, emphasis in Clinical Psychology, she is a certified trainer in Behavioral Interviewing, the Myers-Briggs, and the Predictive Index. Patti has been featured in the best seller, What Color is Your Parachute? since 1988.

Networked
In 2001 she founded the WednesdayNetwork, an 1800 member e-group made up of Silicon Valley professional community. Started in 1999, Patti's online newsletter, Careerzine, reaches 5000+ subscribers more or less monthly. She owns and moderates 25+ e-groups and has over 3000 Linkedin.com connections.

Published
She wrote the Job Search Manual for ResumeMaker 1.0, Individual Software and co-authored the online help screens. At Sun she designed and wrote the On-Campus Recruiting Guide. She contributed a bi-weekly career column for India Post, a US–based weekly with a 350,000 circulation on both coasts