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How a career in sales prepared this exec for HR leadership
- Estelle Izuno spent more than 25 years in the sales operations of Actalent, a services and talent solutions provider for engineering and science fields.
- She started as a recruiter in 1993 and learned communication and business skills, which proved instrumental in her journey to HR leadership.
- Izuno was appointed the firm's first-ever director of employee experience and oversees more than 5,000 employees globally.
- Her front-line sales experiences equip her to strengthen both the candidate and employee experience in the HR leadership role.
- Communication, curiosity, and a deep understanding of the business are the critical qualities that prepared Izuno for HR leadership.
- Actalent focuses on hiring high-character people and creating a healthy and competitive working environment.
- Izuno has been on a listening tour to create growth and opportunities for all people, create a positive onboarding experience and support recognition programs, career development, and training.
- The HR business partner team will continue to support directors and people with unequivocal consistency.
- Izuno's experience of working with a gold-standard HR business partner, Erica, influenced the kind of HR leader she is today.
- She desires every employee of Actalent to have the same positive experience that Erica helped her achieve.
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