• Career and professional development coach with CollegeRecruiter.com and independently with her own clients;
• Consultant on business management and recruiting matters; and
• Writer, author and journalist.

She places special emphasis on diversity issues and women's advancement.

Her career in law started when she first entered college and worked for the Juvenile Courts system in Los Angeles County. Her career in recruiting and staffing began two years later when she became one of the staff personnel for a temporary staffing company. The two career paths have crossed over many times throughout the years, law being the predominant. Her primary areas of practice were litigation and corporate transactional law -- doing deals, mergers, and assisting in public offerings or SEC filings. Among the other areas of law with which she became familiar were probate and tax, public interest, and environmental law while serving as a legal intern for the Air Quality Management Hearing Board. After gaining more than 15 years' experience as a legal secretary and seasoned litigation and corporate transactional paralegal, she earned the reputation of being the paralegal who could do the impossible and rival attorneys' commenting that she should be one of their first-year law clerks. It was about that time she realized the career path she always wanted was to practice law. She applied and was accepted into the University of San Francisco School of Law where she studied in the evening program for two years.

Sandwiched in her more than 20-year tenure in law was founding of her own business where she again became involved in the recruiting, staffing and managing of personnel. The business grew to two in-house staff and four contract employees in it's five-year life before she closed the doors to return to the formal law office setting on a full-time basis.

She became Operations Manager for a Los Angeles boutique executive search firm in 1999. In early 2000, she earned her California accreditation in consulting. Shortly thereafter, Ms. LaRose founded Executive Recruiting Entrances. The purpose of the business is to:

• Assist job and career seekers understand the role of the recruiter in their careers
• Coach job seekers about how to make the best presentation to employers and recruiters in order to optimize their career opportunities and advancement;
• Create a networking venue for career seekers, recruiters and managers;
• Provide strategic information, resources, and services for recruiters and managers
• Consult with managers and recruiters regarding optimal use of business and human capital resources in order to increase return on investment and equity.

In addition to law, consulting and writing, Yvonne has worked as a trained community dispute mediator, disabilities accommodation provider, a trained adult literacy tutor, and served on several nonprofit boards of directors. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration-Prelaw, as well as two ABA approved paralegal certificates in Litigation and in General Corporate law, from California State University at Los Angeles.

Former producer and host of "Legally Speaking," a bi-weekly legal news radio program that served the Bay Area visually impaired, Ms. LaRose's 15 years of journalism encompasses various mediums, including print. Her online writing appears at ITWorld's Managing the IT Pro, Electronic Recruiting Exchange, AIRS, Workforce, BriefMe, and formerly at Suite101, the original site of her column, Career and Executive Recruiting Advice. Most recently, she helped author a book titled The Last Job Search Guide You'll Ever Need: How to Find and Get the Job or Internship of Your Dreams. Her contributions deal with professionalism and the qualities of a good resume.

Yvonne LaRose was recently appointed as a member of the Advisory Board for California State University at Los Angeles's Paralegal Studies, an American Bar Association accredited program in existence for more than 25 years.

To contact Yvonne, visit her website, Executive Recruiting Entrances.