Christy Bodnar is the Director of Talent Acquisition and Onboarding at XKIG, where she leads the recruiting and hiring teams to attract and retain top talent. With over a decade of experience in recruitment, Christy has transformed the perception of recruiting within the vegetation management industry—reducing time-to-fill for hard-to-hire roles and streamlining onboarding processes to accelerate hiring, creating a measurable competitive advantage.
Before joining XKIG, Christy served as an Executive Director with the YMCA, where she became known for building high-performing teams with exceptional retention and promotion rates. Her leadership emphasized customer satisfaction, values-driven culture, and sustainable talent development.
Passionate about professional growth, Christy mentors emerging leaders to strengthen their leadership skills. Outside of work, she enjoys exploring global cuisines by cooking new recipes with her daughter.
Christy Bodnar’s Session(s)
9:15 a.m.–10:00 a.m. PT —
Hiring at scale isn’t just about volume, it’s about quality, timing, and fit. XKIG understands this well, having experienced unprecedented growth over the past two years and continuing to scale rapidly, on track to grow from under 2,000 employees to 30,000 by the end of this year.
In this session, Reelist and XKIG will share how social recruiting and employer branding became an important channel within XKIG’s overall hiring approach, helping to:
- Reach ready-to-work applicants in hard-to-fill roles and geographies
- Clearly communicate opportunity and expectations through employer brand and social content
- Support skills-based and multilingual recruiting across rural and urban markets
Attendees will learn practical ways to integrate social recruiting into an existing TA strategy, measure its impact beyond engagement metrics, and strengthen talent pipelines at scale.
