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title: SkyWater Blog | Allie Bornstein
description: As a Senior Associate at SkyWater Search, Allie Bornstein currently recruits in SkyWater’s human resources division. The HR discipline focuses on leadership and executive-level searches for companies of all sizes in Minnesota seeking to hire experienced, local talent. Allie has 7+ years of experience recruiting leadership roles in the Accounting and Finance space. She also currently facilitates the Tom Burnett Advanced Leadership Program at the University of Minnesota.
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# SkyWater Blog

## Allie Bornstein

![Allie Bornstein](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/hubfs/Allie-Bornstein-SkyWater-1-1.jpeg)

As a Senior Associate at SkyWater Search, Allie Bornstein currently recruits in SkyWater’s human resources division. The HR discipline focuses on leadership and executive-level searches for companies of all sizes in Minnesota seeking to hire experienced, local talent. Allie has 7+ years of experience recruiting leadership roles in the Accounting and Finance space. She also currently facilitates the Tom Burnett Advanced Leadership Program at the University of Minnesota.

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<https://www.linkedin.com/in/allie-bornstein-87332230/>

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## [How to Tame Your Inner Stress Monster](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/how-to-tame-your-inner-stress-monster)

 Posted by [Allie Bornstein](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/author/allie-bornstein) on 12/18/24, 9:00 AM

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Stress often gets a bad rap, often for good reason. When it becomes pervasive in our lives, stress has the power to mess with our emotional well-being, deplete our physical health, and even impair our judgment and cognitive abilities. When these symptoms encroach on our ability to do our work, they can lead to self-perpetuating cycles of ever-increasing anxiety. They don’t call it the Stress Monster for nothing. 

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## [7 Galentine’s Day Lessons in Leadership from Leslie Knope, Managerial Muse](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/galentines-day-2024)

 Posted by [Allie Bornstein](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/author/allie-bornstein) on 2/13/24, 2:48 PM

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Since it was first introduced on NBC's sitcom *Parks and Recreation*, Galentine’s Day has become a real thing, embraced around the world as a day for women to celebrate and support each other. For me, it’s also become a day of revisiting some very real leadership lessons shared by the show’s iconic lead character, Leslie Knope. 

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## [Retained, Engaged, Contingent Search](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/retained-engaged-contingent-search)

 Posted by [Allie Bornstein](https://blog.skywatersearch.com/author/allie-bornstein) on 5/20/21, 9:45 AM

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### How to determine the right type of search agreement for you.

One of the many things that drew me to [SkyWater Search Partners](https://www.linkedin.com/company/skywater-search-partners/) is our firm's capability to run contingent, engaged, and retained searches. Coming from over seven years of purely contingent search, I was excited to use this higher-touch, extremely nuanced approach to helping my clients hire the best leaders.

I’m often asked about these three search formats and what makes each of them the right choice for certain circumstances. I’d like to give a brief overview here. 

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