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Lyndsey Anderson

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Senior Business Recruiter at Cedar
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Lyndsey is a recruiting leader who excels at scaling venture-backed startups and building hiring processes from the ground up. Described by colleagues as innovative and professional, she holds a SHRM-CP certification and a Bachelor of Arts from Texas State University.

Outside of her primary roles, she is passionate about helping people navigate their careers. Lyndsey founded and runs First Job Austin, a career coaching service dedicated to guiding early-career professionals into the workforce, showcasing her commitment to mentorship.

She is a hack-week silver medalist from her time at Dropbox for co-creating a Women in Tech website.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Senior Business Recruiter
Job Level
Junior
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
Personality Overview

How Lyndsey shows up

Persuasive
Informal
Charismatic

They prefer to ensure that they are in control of the situation. They will bat for you if they come to believe in you. They are charming and can persuade others to support their decisions.

Priorities

Topics Lyndsey cares about

Second Chance Hiring
An advocate for second chance hiring, she has spoken at multiple conferences on its business case and social impact.
Candidate Experience
Passionate about improving the hiring journey, she speaks on the topic and has led projects to redesign candidate communication systems.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Senior Business Recruiter
Cedar
9-2023
President & Career Coach
First Job Austin
1-2021 - 2-2025
Head of Talent Acquisition
Literati
5-2020 - 1-2021
The Principal Recruiter
Literati
10-2019 - 5-2020
Business Recruiter
Dropbox
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1997 - 2002
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Texas State University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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