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Kathleen Smith, CMO, ClearedJobs.Net and CyberSecJobs.com, Receives Ally Recruiter of the Year Award

FALLS CHURCH, VA (February 25, 2020) – Kathleen Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, ClearedJobs.Net and CyberSecJobs.com, received the Ally Recruiter of the Year Award at the AYA 2020 Celebration in San Francisco. AYA recognizes those who work to advance equality and create an environment where men and women are equally valued, honored, and heard in technology.

With a mission to support education, career development and job search, Smith strives to make a difference for women in tech. “As an individual, you can make a difference,” believes Smith. “Ingenuity, passion and compassion can move the needle where tech systems may not have done so before.”

Smith supports the community in a variety of ways such as coaching women who want to speak at conferences. She facilitates submitting proposals, coaches the participants, and moderates panel presentations so other women can hear the diverse career paths, fears, and challenges they’ve overcome. In addition to one-on-one coaching, Smith has led several presentation proposal workshops to show prospective conference speakers how to have their voice heard.

Smith further supports women in the community as the Director of HireGround, BSidesLV’s two-day career track. She reaches out to female recruiters and practitioners to submit presentation proposals, and coaches them on their presentations. The event also offers career mentoring, in which Smith ensures more than half of the mentors are women from a variety of industries.

Smith additionally provides support to conference organizers and women in leadership roles. She reaches out to several conferences each year as a mentor and sounding board to support sponsor outreach, advise conference logistics, review proposal submissions and more.

Realizing the importance of gathering women in security, Smith has served on the national planning committee for the Women in Cyber Security conference (WiCyS). When the Women in Cyber Security Celebration was launched six years ago, Smith led efforts to reach out to different communities nationwide, to ensure there was a cross section of women from different backgrounds, to come together and celebrate all that they accomplished.

For further details about Smith’s contributions to the community read here.

About ClearedJobs.Net | CyberSecJobs.com

ClearedJobs.Net and CyberSecJobs.com, located in Falls Church, Virginia, are veteran-owned firms providing services and products to the security cleared and cyber security communities. Founded in 2001, the company produces Cleared Job Fairs® and Cyber Job Fairs, posts online security cleared and cyber security jobs, and provides industry information to assist job seekers in their career transitions.

® Cleared Job Fairs is a registered service mark of ClearedJobs.Net



Feb 25 2020

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