Yvette Simmons

About the Author Yvette Simmons was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided to move to the United States in 1981 to join her husband who was enticed to move to the United States by his sister who lived in the U.S. since the 1970’s. She separated from her husband after a couple of months in Connecticut and moved to New York City to stay with her brother who came from Jamaica in the 1970’s to obtain his architecture degree. She later got divorced from her first husband. She started her career in the US working as an Executive Assistant in Manhattan, New York and after 8 years relocated to Atlanta, Georgia again because her second husband was enticed by his mother to move to Georgia. There, she worked as an Executive Assistant for one of the premier physician staffing agencies in the country. She was often told while working with physicians and clients at the staffing agency in Georgia, that she sounded very convincing and when a sales position became available her then manager asked her if she would consider a career in sales. She was promoted to an Account Manager and never looked back. She has over 3 decades of experience in the temporary staffing industry. She has experience in providing marketing and recruiting services for hospitals nation-wide, including Allied Health Staffing from 1991-1996, and Physician (locum tenens) staffing from 1996-2006. She served as Assistant Director (2000-2005) and Director (2006) for the North Carolina division of a nationally recognized medical staffing company, thereby adding experience in management, human resources and employee training to her list of qualifications. Yvette consistently ranked as a top performer for the staffing companies she worked for and won multiple awards, including third place in a company-wide marketing contest where the emphasis was placed on bringing in new contracts. She was a President’s Club winner grossing over $1 million in gross margins. Now that Yvette is retired, she enjoys dancing, spending time with her family, and being involved in her church as a lector reading her assigned morning lesson for the congregation on her designated Sunday.