About
Yvette Simmons

Early Life

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.

Career

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.

Professional Experience

  • 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.

Post-Career

Now that Yvette is retired from physician recruiting, she enjoys overseeing her business which she formed in 2006 but was never active in (visit her website www.stssinc.com for details), 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