Amybeth began her career in research in the summer of 2002 as the sole researcher for an award-winning MRI-affiliated executive search firm in Ohio. Most recently, she served as the Manager of Internet Research for a recruiting franchisor in Ohio where she provided research support to franchise offices and implemented, customized, and conducted training classes for contact management databases as well as passive researching techniques. She is currently a Sourcing Strategist for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a global public relations firm headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Amybeth also maintains an internet research blog, www.amybethhale.com where she is affectionately known as the “Research Goddess”. She has been a guest author for other well-known recruiting resources such as www.recruiting.com, www.jimstroud.com, and was published in The August 2007 edition of the Fordyce Letter. She was also a guest speaker at the first ever conference designed solely for research and sourcing, SourceCon, in Atlanta in September of 2007. Amybeth is a proponent of responsible professional networking and believes that there is something to be learned from every person you encounter in life.