The External Brain

I have been on the other side of every hiring decision. Now I build career infrastructure for the professionals those decisions are about.

Erica Rivera, ex-Google recruiter and career strategist specializing in career strategy and recruiting insider expertise
Why I Do This

From Recruiting Insider to Career Coach. This Is My Story.

I spent years on the other side of the hiring table. Reviewing resumes. Screening candidates. Sitting in the rooms where companies decided who got the job, who got promoted, and who got passed over. I saw the same patterns over and over. Brilliant, experienced professionals losing out, not because they lacked talent, but because their career infrastructure was not built. Their resume did not tell the right story. Their LinkedIn was a ghost town. Their positioning was invisible to the people making decisions. As an ex-Google recruiter, I crossed over. I took everything I knew about how companies evaluate talent and started building the systems that make professionals undeniable.

What My Recruiting Insider Background Gives You

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I know how ATS systems filter you out before a human ever sees your resume.
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I know what a recruiter actually reads in the 6 seconds they spend on your profile.
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I know why 80% of applications never get a response, and it is rarely about qualifications.
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I know the language that makes a hiring manager stop scrolling and pick up the phone.

Your Google Translate for the Hiring World

I speak fluent recruiter, fluent ATS, fluent hiring manager, and fluent HR. I translate your experience into the language that actually gets you hired, because I used to be the one listening for it.

The Real Story

Career Coach Who Lives What I Teach

Solo mom based in Spain, managing everything my clients manage plus more. I built a coaching practice while parenting, navigating expat life, and building an AI startup (PeerLingo). I am not theoretical. I live the 168-hour problem every single day. That is why my approach is built on systems, not inspiration, because inspiration does not scale.

1,000+
Professionals Helped
30+
Countries Served
23+
Years in the Workforce
6
Years Inside Recruiting Systems

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