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Rod Adams Highlight
None of the decisions you make have to be lifelong decisions. They might be! But they don’t have to be.
About Rod
- I’m originally from North Carolina, but moved to Chicago when I was young—I would become the first in my family to really enter corporate America.
- I wanted to pursue accounting from the time I started college—my goals were reaffirmed when even the FBI spoke at my school and revealed that accounting was one of the top majors they hired from.
- I’ve been with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) throughout my whole career, starting in audit.
- My favorite aspect of audit was building relationships with clients, so my coach referred me for a role that interacted heavily with the human resources department.
- I stayed in audit for about three years before moving into what I call the “people space”—I’ve worked in deployment, recruiting, diversity, human resources, and then back in recruiting.
- I moved to Los Angeles, California, for a few years when I first started working in recruitment for PwC, but I eventually moved back to Chicago.
- I currently lead the recruitment team at PwC for the United States and Mexico—I’ve been in this position for four years.
- In my community, I serve on the Posse Foundation Chicago Advisory Board—the Posse Foundation recruits and trains scholars with extraordinary leadership potential.
