Who would have thunk it…a Tennessee debutante college dropout, whose motto was "Your daddy's rich and your momma's good-looking", would become a successful headhunter of nuclear biologists for Monsanto or rocket scientists for Rockwell International. That is exactly the road traveled by Margot King, founder and CEO of one of the most successful national recruitment management companies in the country. Now don't get me wrong, lest you think Margot was lazy and shiftless not to finish her stint at the University of Alabama where she made straight 'A's' and was inducted into every scholastic honorary club her three-year college career would allow. She was lured to the altar and marriage to Prince Charming with promises of 'happily ever after' in the lap of luxury and big castles.

But things don't happen exactly as we envision them, and one day a few years after the big wedding, she is daydreaming about a different life while playing bridge with the girls as their babies are playing in the playpen. (By the way, Margot's daughter is a practicing attorney in Tennessee; that just goes to show you the apple can fall close to the tree, but roll away.) Margot's daydreams became out of body experiences and entrepreneurial fantasies as she decided she was going to actually go to work and start a career to the amusement of her high society in-laws and friends. That's exactly what she did and has never looked back or regretted her decision, but instead, realized her dreams.

Margot's career in human resources began some twenty years ago after getting fired from a job running a talent agency in Atlanta. (She found out later through the grapevine that the agency's owner had given Margot's job to his girlfriend!) Through the course of interviewing and looking for another job she stumbled onto a company out of Chicago that pioneered on-site interviewing and recruiting services to find corporate talent for giant corporations. The company started her as a rookie recruiting consultant and before the year was out, Margot had sold and managed the largest account in the history of the company out of hundreds of consultants. She ultimately became a VP and GM of the Atlanta office. When her employers got into a squabble and eventually closed down the business, Margot stepped in and filled the market void.

Over the years, Margot morphed the business model to keep up with technological advances attracting a blue chip clientele such as General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, WorldSpan, Rockwell, Andersen to name a few. The services encompassed benchmarking a company's hiring process, implementing changes and staying on-site literally for years to continually execute the recruiting strategy. Margot says, "When a company invites you into their home and allows you to stay for years, you have to be doing something right." That something right is personalized customer service and delivery with no margin for error.

Select Resource/On Location now an internationally successful company serves clients on location from coast to coast. Select Resource/On Location has recently been acquired as part of one of the largest private equity funds ever raised in the Southeast.

Not a good candidate for being a lady of leisure, today Margot is producing and hosting a new radio talk show called 'Job Talk' which is an outgrowth of a marketing idea created before Select Resource was first launched in the early nineties. Over the years she has interviewed thousands of job candidates and has had a vantage point in corporate America as a virtual 'fly on the wall'. She equates it to the old TV show, 'Eight million stories in the naked city.' Margot exclaims, "These stories are rich in humor, motivation, inspiration and determination that need to be shared with our listeners who are reaching for answers as they face career challenges." So much for the Tennessee debutante, college dropout. You go girl!

Margot King resides in Atlanta. She is a Board member of the Women's Commerce Organization, Who's Who in Executives and Professionals, member of Society of Human Resource Management, member of National Association of Women Business Owners, and member of Business Directors Network.