Aviation Personnel International Promotes Colleen Kelly
to Vice President

 Oct. 2011 – Sheryl Barden, President of Aviation Personnel International (www.APIaviation.com), today announced the promotion of Colleen Kelly to Vice President, Client and Talent Relations, responsible for the retained recruitment of aviation professionals on behalf of Fortune 500 companies and private individuals that operate a flight department with one or more aircraft.

“Colleen has been a lynchpin in identifying the best and brightest candidates for our aviation clients—not only from a skill set and experience perspective—but most importantly, from a culture and values fit,” says Sheryl Barden, President of Aviation Personnel International. “She works closely with both Human Resources and flight operations leadership to understand their unique business and talent needs, and often advises our clients on appropriate and competitive compensation packages to attract and retain the level of talent they’re seeking.”

A Perfect Match: Bringing API’s Clients and Candidates Together

Upon joining Aviation Personnel International in September of 2007 as Director of Candidate Services, Colleen was responsible for building relationships with each candidate in the five key professional areas of business and general aviation: leadership, flight deck, maintenance, cabin safety crew and scheduling/dispatch.

“Serving as a catalyst for bringing candidates and clients together, Colleen is an expert in the talent search process,” explains Barden. “She keeps the process alive and fluid for both candidates and our clients, and I’m pleased to promote her into a leadership position at API.”

Prior to API, Colleen was a Director at Levi Strauss for seven years where she was a manager of both people and international projects. She holds a degree in Marketing and Consumer Behavior from the University of Arizona.

For more information about the API leadership team, please visit http://www.apiaviation.com/leadership.

About Aviation Personnel International

Now celebrating 40 years in aviation, retained recruitment servicesretained recruitment services(API) is the longest-running aviation recruiting business, exclusively serving the hiring needs of flight departments in corporate and private aviation. API offers its clients the broadest portfolio of fully vetted candidates, including senior aviation leaders, pilots, maintenance, cabin safety crew, schedulers and dispatchers. Based in San Francisco, the API team combines their extensive aviation knowledge with their expertise in human resources and executive recruiting to provide retained recruitment services, talent identification, staff development and outplacement services for flight departments of two or two hundred. www.APIAviation.com

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