Jenny DeVaughn is the Director, Social Strategy at Bernard Hodes Group focusing on the Central and Southeastern regions. She is responsible for developing and overseeing the implementation of social recruiting strategies for clients, including ongoing training.

Jenny’s scope of experience is focused on creating customized social media webinars, presentations and social recruiting training. Jenny’s clients include small-to-medium sized growing companies to large corporations that want to leverage social media tools to enhance their employer brand, increase revenue, gain a competitive recruiting advantage, genuinely connect with ideal candidates and monitor their brand online.

Prior to joining Hodes, Jenny was Chief Enthusiast Officer (CEO) of Social Precision, which specializes in strategic corporate and professional growth via social media consulting. Jenny continues to discuss innovative social recruiting ideas at her Social Precision blog.

Prior to starting her own consulting company, Jenny gained vast experience using social media as an executive recruiter. Her primary focus was to increase business and contacts via social media initiatives. Jenny’s pay-it-forward approach has afforded great opportunities to work with non-profit organizations. She is the Executive Vice President of Marketing & PR for the Society for Human Resource Management – Atlanta Chapter (SHRM-Atlanta) and the Director of Career Advancement for the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP Atlanta). Additionally, Jenny participates in the Recruiting Society of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

Jenny is a frequent speaker at professional seminars on a variety of topics around using social media in the workplace. She attended the Social Recruiting Summit at Google and the ERE Fall Expo (September 2009). Jenny presented at RecruitFest 2009 in Toronto and at the 19th Annual SHRM-Atlanta HR Conference (October 2009). She attended the Social Recruiting Summit in NYC where she organized a networking event with Monster.com (November 2009). Jenny spoke at the TAG Recruiting Society and at SoCon10 at Kennesaw State University (January 2010).

Jenny is also known as a NASCAR fan and her favorite driver is Dale Earnhardt Jr. She lives in Peachtree City, GA with her husband, Roger, and their two children.