Ellen P. Kelly is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in university settings. She possesses a deep knowledge and insight into driving candidate success and has a unique insider perspective into campus trends and millennial motivation. Ellen is well-known for her program development skills and passion for ensuring a stellar candidate experience throughout the full cycle recruitment process. She has extensive high-tech recruiting experience, having worked with Bay Area employers such as Salesforce, LinkedIn, Tesla, Netflix, GoPro, Eventbrite, Twitter, and Oracle. What sets Ellen apart is her ability to build campus relationships, spanning trustees, provosts, deans, student organizations, and student leaders.

Ellen is a seasoned people developer and manager with 6 direct reports. She thrives on team success and collaborative teamwork, and her skills in communication and interpersonal interactions foster buy-in and engender recruiting results. Ellen is well-educated, having studied a Master of Theological Studies in Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Logistics at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an M.S. in Counseling at San Francisco State University.

Ellen's professional affiliations include owning Kelly Career Counseling, former Director of Career Success at the University of San Francisco, former Designer-in-Residence - Life Design Lab at Stanford University, former Fulbright Scholar - International Education Administrators (IEA) Program at the Fulbright Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, former Associate Director at the University of San Francisco, former Career Counselor Intern at the Career Center at the University of California, Berkeley, former Recruitment Coordinator at the Peace Corps, former Community Relations Coordinator at Don Bosco Centers, former TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) at the Peace Corps, Armenia, and former Department Manager/Management Trainee at Deluxe Corporation.