Our platform includes an online learning center that features HR and recruiting professionals, authors, life business coaches and speakers to help you prepare for your career transition. They have provided articles, videos, products and services to help you evolve in your personal and business life.

 

Enjoy and Thrive!

 

  • LT Ladino Bryson

    Known as the "Employment Therapist™", former senior level record executive turned executive recruiter created vCandidates.com.

LT is an experienced C-Level Executive and Entrepreneur. She has been recruiting since 2012, has counseled thousands of job seekers, and has placed more than 600 candidates. As the owner of Clique Hiring Solutions, LT worked permanent, contract, and labor searches for C-Level to general labor positions for clients such as MSC Direct, Red Ventures, Tesla, Sharp Business Systems and others in the IT, healthcare, engineering, accounting, creative services, and hospitality industries.

 

LT is a “people person” who looks at every situation from a 360-degree viewpoint. She is also affectionately known as “The Employment Therapist™” and received this moniker based on her friendly but straightforward expert career advice. She has been published in publications and blogs, such as Family Circle, Forbes.comFortune.comMaxim.com, HR Technology, US News & World Report, and Recruiter.com. And, LT continues to be recognized as a career or recruiting expert who has been seen on The Today Show and over 100+ television affiliates for networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC news stations.

 

Prior to recruiting, LT spent 20 years in the entertainment industry serving in marketing, promotions, and artist development roles for record companies such as Jive, Arista, Columbia, and Sony Music. She has helped with the success of artist projects such as Will Smith, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Usher, Notorious B.I.G, OutKast and Wu Tang Clan, to name a few. She now uses the development savvy she learned in the industry to assist candidates in making the best presentation of themselves.

Dr. Karen Jacobson is a Certified Professional Behavioral Expert who created the DISC inspired personality assessments for all subscriptions on vCandidates.com. Premium subscribers will receive the vCandidate Personality DNA which is a customized assessment that combines three sciences in one to provide you with a complete and thorough picture of the candidate that you’re working with.

 

The vCandidate Personality DNA reveals the various aspects of your behavior showing you WHAT you do, HOW you do things and WHY you do the things the way you do. It looks at what behavior is present and what is absent as well acceptance and avoidance.

 

The vCandidate Personality DNA evaluates personal responses to the following:

 

  • Problems and challenges
  • Influencing others
  • Pace of Environment
  • Rules and Procedures

It helps to identify and develop:

 

  • Greater self-awareness and personal growth
  • Improved engagement and communication with others
  • Clarity of purpose and communication

vCandidate Personality DNA 60-Minute Expert Debrief:

 

Are you looking to just get another job or do you want a fulfilling career that not only fits your skills and talents but is also one that has you waking up excited ready to face the day? Spend a Power Hour with vCandidates.com Partner Dr. Karen Jacobson, High-Performance Strategist and Behavior Expert.

 

While the online debrief provides you with a broad overview of your results and will summarize each one of the three sciences, the deep dive with Dr. Jacobson will help you blend things together. You will have the opportunity to ask the expert questions that directly relate to your goals and how to achieve them based on your strengths and motivators. You will also be able to identify potential roadblocks that are not visible just by a general overview and devise an action plan to overcome them. Are you ready to confidently know that you are on the right path and can land that dream job?

 

Appointments with Dr. Karen are available upon subscription.P

  • DR. KAREN JACOBSON

    High-Performance Strategist and an Expert in Behavior and Human Potential

  • Johnny Laurant

    HR Executive, Corporate Trainer, Leadership Coach & Public Speaker

Johnny Laurent is a John Maxwell certified coach and uses his knowledge to build up people. He has always sought opportunities to help individuals, teams, and businesses survive and even thrive despite trials and tribulations.  He has accomplished this at such companies as KN Energy, Service and Support Consultants, Sage, Zenefits, and others. He provided course-altering leadership as both a consultant and employee, achieving measurable wins in individual and team performance, boosted customer satisfaction scores, revenue growth, profitability increases, and cost reduction.

 

 

In 2018, Johnny launched his consulting service, JohnnyLaurent.com, dedicated to helping companies and individuals solve problems and reach potential in team building, problem solving, career development, and process management reengineering.

 

 

From an early age, Johnny gravitated into leadership roles in both jobs and community services. Post college, Johnny began working at U.S. Robotics. Moving up the management chain, he eventually led the company’s software division, while also forming and leading the consumer modems division’s support group, ensuring the company’s successfully retooling as sales quintupled. When Johnny was recruited to Software AG, he discovered his true passion and greatest value, creating fruitful harvest in rocky soil – in serving companies with big problems, where he could identify key issues, define solutions, and oversee or guide their course correction to achieve optimal performance measured by strong results.

 

 

As a content contributor to vCandidates.com’s vUniversity, look for Johnny to provide useful tips to help with the career transition process.

Jennifer Flaa is currently CEO of both Vettanna and The Bird Commission. She is a visionary entrepreneur with a 20+ year track record of success for hiring executives for new tech companies and creative ventures. She is a dynamic speaker and business coach who has courses available to assist candidates and recruiters to become better communicators.

 

Jennifer began her career testing space flight hardware and communications systems at NASA after graduating from the University of Maryland. She was QA Manager at Symantec and several Bay Area startups before starting her own businesses (5 so far). She has trained executives, tech teams and entrepreneurs around the world including eBay, Dell, Microsoft, Sky Cable and the US Air Force. She specializes in teaching communication skills including communicating on video.

 

Not content to use only one side of her brain, she is the author of “The Happiness Handbook: Living Your Extraordinary Life” and the Better Boyfriend blog. You can find Jennifer on stage as the vocalist for the classic rock band Urban Fiction and vintage jazz with The Zippy Katz.

  • Jennifer Flaa

    Seasoned Recruiting Professional, Speaker and Business Coach

  • Lisa Guice

    America’s #1 Self Relationship Expert and Be Great NOW Coach

Lisa Guice offers to VCandidates her experience in perspective mastery fostering the skill to see the true gem in every potential employment opportunity. In addition, she offers her expertise in adversity leveraging which  teaches people on how to capitalize on previous struggles they may have encountered that can catapult their success on their new career journey. She is a leading life coach and author who has daily vBlogs and social media pages to assist people with recognizing their greatness.

 

Lisa studied at the University of Phoenix, earned certifications in Human Resource Management, Seminars and Presentations and Life Coaching. She has become an Empowerment Specialist and Business Coach but prides herself on her ability to help others breakthrough with what has held them back from reaching their highest potential and purpose. Lisa launched Lisa Guice Global-Vision, LLC a transformational coaching company that focuses on bold success through self-realization and the understanding of the connection between personal development and business development resulting in true loyalty to one’s greatness.

 

She has received multiple invites to speak Internationally on the subjects of “How to get what you want out of life” and “Creating your own niche so that you stand out.” Lisa has been featured in several national publications to include the Huffington Post and Forbes. Her dynamic work landed her an invite to become a coach for the prestigious Forbes Business Coaches Council.

Nicole Spracale has over 25 years of experience in the services and technology space, focused primarily on operations, marketing and human resources.

 

Building your company, growing your team, and developing as a leader is hard work. There’s never a shortage of tasks to master or challenges to juggle. Nicole is dedicated to helping the clients she works with and for, finding their purpose, getting focused, and creating strategies to achieve outcomes that exceed their expectations.

 

After an extensive career in corporate America, which included work with privately held, public, and private equity backed firms which culminated with her role as the Senior Vice President of People, she decided to explore her own entrepreneurial spirit. She started her first consulting practice focused on Executive Coaching and Business Strategy and then co-launched a retail bakery.

 

Today, Nicole loves being part of the vCandidates.com team, where she acts as the VP of People & Subscriber Success. She is focused on creating tools and content to help our Candidates and Recruiters be successful. Additionally, she works privately with a few select clients as an Executive and Business coach helping those organizations to scale and grow, build their teams, and incorporate the systems and processes necessary to move from ordinary to extraordinary.

 

As a mentor, Nicole uses applicable and sound advice to help you sharpen your presentation and interviewing skills.

  • Nicole Spracale

    Seasoned HR Professional who worked for Jobing.com. She now shares her expertise in blogs and videos.