Meet the Team: Elizabeth Pike
Meet Elizabeth Pike, Lucid’s Operations Specialist!
No stranger to the staffing world, Elizabeth Pike has been using her expertise to help ensure Lucid is always operating at peak capacity. She’s become a trusted resource for internal team members, clients, and consultants assisting with a variety of needs and often unique requests on a regular basis. Now, we are all just patiently waiting for her to host a Lucid dance night at her studio. (We really just want to see what kind of moves John Galligan has.) To learn more about Miss Pike, like the fact she owns her own dance studio, head to the Our Team page of our website.
When not working for Lucid or at her studio in Westfield, Elizabeth is likely cuddling with her pup, Francis and two daughters, Eliot and Austen, enjoying a fresh cup of coffee at a local shop, reading a very long book, or trying to convince her husband, Trevor, it’s time they go on another adventurous trip.
Rapid Fire Questions:
Favorite Local Restaurant: 9th Street Bistro
Favorite Play or Musical: Chicago
Favorite Frozen Treat: Raspberry Sorbet
Elizabeth’s Lucid Story:
· This is not the first time that you have worked in the staffing world. What do you find the most enjoyable about this industry?
The staffing industry is great because we are faced with new and exciting challenges every day, but honestly the thing I love most about this industry is the simplicity of our core mission. At the end of the day, it’s about matching the right candidates with the right opportunity. Both hiring and job hunting can be such stressful processes, and I love helping make that process easier for our candidates and clients.
· In your role, you view many, many resumes each week. Any advice you could share on what makes a resume better or worse than another?
Proofread, and when you think you’re good, have a friend proofread for you! I find myself correcting a lot of “mange” to “manage.”
Avoid passive words like “helped.” Write your resume the way your biggest hype person would describe you doing your job. You didn’t “help achieve 50% cost reduction,” you did the dang thing!
After each bullet point on your resume, ask yourself “so what?” Clearly articulate the importance and value of your work.
· Fun fact! You also own and teach at a dance studio. Any similarities between the work you do at Lucid and your dance studio work?
In addition to teaching, I manage all the back-office operations at the studio, so there is ton of crossover! The work I do for Lucid has helped me streamline a lot of our financial and HR processes at the studio, and some of the tools and strategies we use for marketing, communications, and project management at the studio have made their way to Lucid to help our team be more efficient.
· Speaking of dance, which of your Lucid coworkers do you think would make the best dancer?
Definitely Rumneet. I’d love to tag along to one of the week-long Indian weddings she gets invited to so she can teach me some moves.
· You’re a big reader. If you could turn any book into a movie, which one would it be and why?
My absolute favorite books have already been turned into movies (to varying degrees of success), but one I’ve read recently that I’d love to see a film adaptation of would be Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi. It was a really powerful story set in pre-colonial West Africa that was full of action, mythology, and politics, and I think the setting would be incredible to see on the big screen.
· If you could live in anywhere in the United States besides Indiana, where would it be?
Maine! I’m not a huge fan of hot weather but I love being near the ocean. (And my family is all from the east coast, so visiting New England always feels like going home.)