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Our Team
John Vlastelica, Founder and Managing Director
Recruiting Toolbox, Inc.
John Vlastelica draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, including seven years as a corporate recruiting leader and four years as a recruitment management consultant and trainer. He was a Recruiting Director at Amazon.com and the engineering recruiting leader for two start-up divisions of McCaw/AT&T Wireless. Now, he focuses 100 percent on helping other companies improve their in-house recruiting capabilities.
He's provided training and recruitment management consulting services to companies of all shapes and sizes, including leading organizations in high-tech, bio-tech, healthcare, financial services, and retail. John has shared his expertise with colleagues as an entertaining and credible repeat presenter at regional and national recruiting conferences (including ERE Expo, AIRS Symposiums, and SHRM's Staffing Management conferences), through online webinars, and as an instructor for the Strategic Talent Acquisition Roundtable Leadership Academies.
He is also an author of several popular recruiting white papers and work published in two books on staffing best practices,
and writes for his blog, Recruiting Toolbox. John was a four-term President of the Staffing Management Association
of Seattle, which drew over 250 people to its last conference. John has also served several terms on the board of Washington State's
largest SHRM chapter, the Lake Washington Human Resources Association. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Member Award from the
7,000-plus member Northwest Human Resource Management Association. He graduated magna cum laude, and first in his class, with a degree in
business from Western Washington University.