Bryan Creely
Corporate recruiter, career strategist, founder of A Life After Layoff, and co-founder of Soor. Bryan brings more than 20 years of recruiting experience to conversations about hiring, job searching, layoffs, career management, AI and the changing world of work.
Practical career insight from inside the hiring process
Bryan has spent more than two decades in corporate recruiting and talent acquisition, including experience with organizations such as Amazon, FedEx and Korn Ferry. His work has included recruiting leadership, high-volume hiring, technical and non-technical recruiting, and close partnership with hiring managers.
His speaking and media commentary focus on making the hiring process easier to understand and helping people make more intentional decisions about their careers. He brings the employer perspective into conversations that are often dominated by theory, trends or generic career advice.
Today, Bryan reaches career-minded professionals through A Life After Layoff across YouTube, LinkedIn, his website, courses and coaching, while also building Soor, a recruiter-built job-search management platform.
Interviews, podcasts and expert conversations
Selected appearances discussing the job market, recruiting, career strategy and what employers are actually looking for.
Pro-Recruiter: Is Looking For A Job Getting Worse?
Bryan joined Ken Coleman for an in-studio conversation about the job market and what job seekers are facing.
Watch the interview →How to Job Hunt in a Burnout Job Market
In this Ask A Recruiter episode, Bryan joins Leah Ova to discuss the 2026 job market, candidate burnout, standing out in a competitive search and building a more focused job-search strategy.
Listen on Spotify →Guest Interview with Mary Southern
A longer-form conversation on recruiting, job searching and career strategy.
Upcoming LinkedIn-hosted career guidance event
Bryan has been invited to join LinkedIn’s Career Talks series for a fireside-chat-style conversation with LinkedIn News. Event details will be added once the appearance is confirmed and live.
Topics Bryan can speak about
Talks can be adapted for professional associations, corporate audiences, universities, career events, podcasts, media interviews and virtual programs.
How Hiring Actually Works
What recruiters and hiring managers evaluate, why qualified candidates get overlooked, and how job seekers can approach the process more strategically.
The Modern Job Search
How to build a focused search, avoid application burnout, improve interview conversion and stop relying on volume alone.
AI, Recruiting & the Future of Hiring
How AI is changing recruiting and job searching, where it helps, where it creates risk, and what candidates need to understand as hiring systems evolve.
Layoffs, Career Resilience & What Comes Next
How professionals can recover from career disruption, reposition themselves and avoid allowing one employer to determine the direction of their career.
Become the CEO of Your Career
A practical framework for managing skills, reputation, relationships, market value and career direction more intentionally.
Career Change & Mid-Career Reinvention
How to change direction without starting over, identify transferable value and make smarter decisions about the next phase of a career.
Quoted and featured across major media
Bryan’s recruiting and career advice has been featured in national media covering hiring, layoffs, workplace trends, job searching and career strategy.
About Bryan Creely
Bryan Creely is a corporate recruiter and career strategist with more than 20 years of experience in talent acquisition. His background includes companies such as Amazon, FedEx and Korn Ferry, along with experience leading recruiting teams and working across large organizations and startups.
He is the founder of A Life After Layoff and co-founder of Soor, a recruiter-built job-search management platform. Bryan’s work focuses on recruiting, resumes, interviewing, LinkedIn, job-search strategy, layoffs, career advancement and long-term career management.
Interested in having Bryan join your event, show or publication?
For speaking engagements, podcast and broadcast interviews, expert commentary, panels and other media opportunities, send a brief note with the opportunity, audience, timing and any relevant details.