Hire purpose La’Tonja Hunter HAS WORKED FOR BOEING: 2 years ORGANIZATION: Global Staffing, Shared Services Group HAS BEEN PART OF A TEAM COMPRISING: 5 diversity recruiters Frontiers June 2014 11 WHAT WE DO Meet a Boeing recruiter helping shape Boeing’s future—and a diverse and talented workforce By Marcy Polhemus and photo by Marian Lockhart La’Tonja Hunter is one of Boeing’s professional recruiters in Shared Services Global Staffing. In this Frontiers series that profiles employees discussing their jobs, Hunter describes the company’s efforts—and hers—to find talent for Boeing’s future workforce. As a diversity recruiter I have an opportunity to help shape the current and future workforce of Boeing, and make an impact on the company’s bottom line. I am one of five diversity recruiters in Global Staffing, responsible for recruiting efforts in the United States specifically targeting female and minority talent. Our work will have a profound impact on Boeing for many years to come. Not everyone at Boeing has that kind of responsibility. I’ve been a recruiter for more than 12 years and one of the things I truly enjoy about my job is the outreach component and working one on one with job seekers. I met a manufacturing engineer at a smaller career fair in Seattle who was on the fence about attending an upcoming National Society of Black Engineers national conference in Nashville, Tenn. I let him know that Boeing would be recruiting at the event and that hiring managers would be there to perform interviews on the spot. Well, he did attend—and he interviewed and received an offer from Boeing. He later emailed me that he wouldn’t be in this position without me. It made my day. I like that we help the hiring managers, too. One manager told me recently after a hiring event that “It is events like these that will truly make a difference in Boeing.” Our outreach efforts with diverse communities have special meaning for me because I’m part of those communities and I know how important those connections to others are. There are job seekers who fly hundreds of miles to Seattle to attend a career fair because Boeing will be there. This experience is full circle for me. Growing up in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, I could look out and see Boeing Field, and I remember being fascinated with the many different airplanes arriving and departing. It’s exciting to know I am now working for Boeing, a global company with great influence, and I’m part of an organization that is responsible for attracting and recruiting talented men and women to our company—because they are our future. n marcy.polhemus@boeing.com
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