Patti Wilson

Companies seeking to attract, hire and retain high value professionals use the Career Company’s Recruitment Branding, Onboarding, Behavioral Interviewing and Employment Assessment tools and services to inform and enable those goals.

Executives and entrepreneurs wanting to successfully grow their teams, careers, and businesses use the Career Company’s expert career coaching and employment consulting to achieve these outcomes.

Our clients represent a breadth of technology sectors as well as biotech, digital entertainment and consumer electronics and professional services from Fortune 500 and Global 1000 to newly emerging companies.

Prior to founding her business, she was an Employment Manager for SUN Microsystems where she built a business unit that coordinated across all company divisions and sites globally. Her experience as a technical and business recruiter for Apple and AMD as well as business strategy and talent acquisition consultant to several startups provides an in-the-trenches understanding of Bay Area business cultures.

In 2001, Patti founded and launched the WednesdayNetwork™, the first of a new breed of online career discussion e-groups now a 1800+ online community for Bay Area professionals.

She freely shares to 5000+ subscribers, her breadth of expertise and insights in the Career Company’s monthly ezine, Careerzine™.


Patti’s consulting is informed by a broad business and academic background including a Masters in Career Development from John F. Kennedy University. She is certified in multiple assessments including the Predictive Index, Myers Briggs and Leadership Architect. She is a Certified Behavioral Interviewing Trainer by Behaviordyne.


Po Bronson called her, “the guru of Silicon Valley career counselors” in his best selling book, What Should I do With My Life? She has been featured since 1988, What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles

In addition, Patti has been frequently quoted or interviewed by PBS Radio's California Report, National Public Radio's Marketplace, KTVU, NBC11 and KPIX TV NEWS, Monster.com, Business 2.0/Fortune Magazine, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, CBS’s Early Show, and USA Today.

Sector: Human Resources and recruiting

Sector: High Tech