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Leadership
Laura Spawn is the CEO and co-founder of Virtual Vocations, one of the leading online job boards focused exclusively on remote jobs. Alongside her brother, Laura founded Virtual Vocations in February 2007 with one goal in mind: connecting job seekers with legitimate telecommute job openings.
Spawn grew up in a little place in the desert called Golden Valley, Arizona and went on to pursue her bachelor’s degree in public agency service management from Northern Arizona State University. From there, Spawn spent several years working as a certified fiduciary and case manager in Mohave County, Arizona, where she was awarded multiple times for her work in probate research before founding Virtual Vocations.
With Spawn as CEO, Virtual Vocations has helped more than two million jobseekers in their quests for remote work over the last 14 years by providing a database that houses more than 30,000 current remote job openings at any given time and offering job seekers a number of tools to aid in their job searches, including exclusive e-courses and downloadable content, and resumé writing services.
In her free time, Spawn loves to spend time outside — gardening, working in the yard, hiking, and exploring. She also spends a lot of time reading, some time playing the piano, and most of the time parenting, and she runs a blog about minimalism, where she describes how her family “embraced a simpler lifestyle, with fewer belongings, more experiences and a much more intentional way of living.” Spawn lives in Oregon with her husband of 19 years, daughter, two sons, and two dogs, Ivy and Jilly.