Gloria Espina

I've spent about twenty years in hiring and HR, mostly at companies growing faster than their processes could keep up with. The through line has been the same the whole time, which is walking into a place where nothing is written down and leaving behind something other people can run. The tools have changed a lot more than the work has.

I started in staffing at Manpower in Canada, then moved in-house. At Thomas & Betts, an electrical equipment manufacturer, I hired and onboarded over 100 people during a facility expansion and built a hands-on training and assessment program for welders. Later, as a consultant, I ran hiring campaigns that pulled in 2,000+ applicants and 500+ interviews in under six months, and at Workrise I staffed utility-scale solar and wind projects with 200+ skilled trades workers.

At a remote tech startup I ran People Operations through a period when headcount grew 60%. I documented the company's SOPs and improved process efficiency by about 40%, and built onboarding that took 30% off new hire ramp-up time.

I do that same work now for small and midsize companies: hiring coordination, onboarding programs, SOP libraries, training sites, and the automation underneath them. I also built the Remote Work Academy from scratch, a bilingual learning platform with six curriculum tracks, video and written courseware, hands-on labs, assessments and six AI coaches I trained myself, along with the platform that delivers it. It's live at https://academy.recruitmentgal.com and it's the clearest example of my work.

I'm bilingual in English and Spanish, I've worked fully remote for over a decade, and I use AI heavily in the actual work rather than talking about it.

I'm most interested in talent operations, people operations, learning and development, and enablement roles at companies that are growing quickly and already know their internal process needs work.