Retta Michelli, RN, BSN, CCRN
Director of Nursing Operations
Phone: 408-425-7327
Fax: 270-513-2902
info@coastalstaffing.org www.coastalstaffing.org
About Us
Ann-Marie Abbott, President and Chief Healthcare Recruiter
Phone: 408-425-7327 | e-fax: 270-513-2902
Email: aabbott@coastalstaffing.org
With more than 15 years of professional recruitment and retention experience, Ann-Marie Abbott has a proven track record of meeting her client’s most challenging hiring needs. From coast to coast her experience and dedication to making excellent placements has been proven time and again. With over eight years experience in healthcare recruitment along with coming from a long line of nursing professional relatives, Ann-Marie's respect for the healthcare professions, and nursing in particular, is reflective in the extra personal assistance she provides to her candidates and hiring managers. Ann-Marie knows the challenges facing healthcare organizations today and she enjoys assisting her clients think "outside of the box" to obtain the successful recruitment solutions they need. Since Ann-Marie started as an in-house human resource recruiter, her main focus is always on employee retention as well as recruitment. Ann-Marie fully understands the impact and high cost associated with making bad hires and strives to assist her managers and candidates thru the interview process to insure the best match for all. With consistently high interview to hire ratios, Ann-Marie’s experience allows her to balance the strategic long term importance of building a team of quality professionals with the day to day reality of escalating staffing costs.
Specializing in difficult to fill and high volume nursing and laboratory recruitment, Ann-Marie has recruited candidates from California to Maine, Canada, Philippines, South Korea, United Kingdom, Australia, China and India. During her three year contract as Catholic Healthcare West’s Mercy Hospitals (www.mercyhospitals.org), Senior Nurse Recruiter, Ann-Marie successfully hired over 400 RNs thru 4 hospital expansions. Most recently, Ann-Marie has been retained to assist IDEXX Laboratories (www.idexx.com) staff their continuous laboratories successful expansions.
Ann-Marie is an AIRS Internet Recruiter and has extensive training in Advanced Behavioral Interviewing, Myers-Briggs, Human Dynamics and R & R operations. Ann-Marie is also a member of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management) and NAHCR (National Association Health Care Recruiters).
Julie Briones,
Sourcing Healthcare Recruiter
Phone: 661-310-3199 | Cell: 661-496-4880 | e-fax: 270-513-2902
Email: jbriones@coastalstaffing.org
Julie Briones has joined Coastal Staffing after partnering with Ann-Marie at Catholic Healthcare West as an Assistant Recruiter. Julie administered the interview, hiring and relocation processing for all RNs hired during four challenging hospital expansions.
Julie’s quick response, technical skills, attention to detail and extraordinary customer service solicited incalculable accolades from nurse managers and candidates alike.