Amy Bennett
About Amy Bennett
Amy Bennett is a Senior Recruiter at FINRA, where she has worked since 2022. She has extensive experience in talent acquisition, having held various roles at companies such as KATERRA, FirstService Residential, and Nextiva.
Work at FINRA
Currently, Amy Bennett serves as a Senior Recruiter at FINRA, a role she has held since 2022. In this position, she leads recruitment efforts for examinations teams, supporting up to 25 different hiring managers. She manages between 10 to 40 requisitions simultaneously. Her responsibilities include collaborating with leaders to streamline the interview process and ensuring it operates effectively. Additionally, she runs weekly reports on open requisitions to track recruitment progress and ensure timely candidate processing.
Previous Experience in Talent Acquisition
Before her role at FINRA, Amy Bennett held several positions in talent acquisition. She worked as a Talent Acquisition Partner for KATERRA in 2019 for eight months, focusing on North America. Following that, she served as a Senior Corporate Recruiter for FirstService Residential from 2019 to 2021, also in Scottsdale, Arizona. She continued her career as a Talent Acquisition Partner at Nextiva from 2021 to 2022. Earlier, she was a National Corporate Recruiter for Leslie's from 2017 to 2019 and a Talent Acquisition Recruiter at Kforce Inc from 2016 to 2017.
Background in Retail Management
Amy Bennett began her career in retail management, working at Nordstrom as an Assistant Department Manager in Men's Sportswear & Designer from 2011 to 2014. This experience provided her with foundational skills in customer service and team leadership, which she later applied in her recruitment roles.
Education and Expertise
Amy Bennett studied at Mesa Community College, focusing on General Sales, Merchandising, and Related Marketing Operations. Although specific achievements during her studies are not documented, her educational background supports her expertise in recruitment and talent acquisition, particularly in understanding market needs and candidate expectations.
Process Improvement Initiatives
In her current role at FINRA, Amy Bennett emphasizes process improvement in recruitment. She collaborates with leaders to enhance the interview process and is actively involved in updating and reworking multiple Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to improve recruiting processes. She also acts as a leader to coordinators, schedulers, and junior recruiters, supporting new hires and managing workload distribution.