Justin Margherio is an accomplished Talent Acquisition Lead with over 17 years of experience in student attraction and recruitment. He currently oversees Talent Acquisition for Early Career Programs at Experian, managing the recruitment and development of early career initiatives across North America.

Justin began his career at The University of Tulsa as an Admission Counselor, where he was responsible for all admission and scholarship decisions for a territory spanning seven states. In 2012, he joined Monsanto (now Bayer) as a Senior Recruiter for Emerging Talent, collaborating with hiring managers and HR partners to develop effective recruitment strategies. During his nine years there, he hired 80–100 interns and co-ops annually, facilitated orientation for 250 new hires each year, and led the integration of consumer health and pharmaceutical divisions after Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto. Notably, Justin developed and implemented a fully remote intern and co-op program during the COVID pandemic, increased gender diversity in the Sales and Production intern program by 20%, created an intern rotational program to enhance minority hiring, and launched an IT trainee program to build a pipeline for software engineers.

In 2021, Justin joined Experian as a Talent Acquisition Partner for Early Careers and was promoted to Talent Acquisition Lead for Early Careers just over a year later. Under his leadership, Experian’s internship program has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Internship Programs, with year-over-year increases in diversity and improved intern conversion rates, enhancing the return on investment for the company’s early career initiatives.

Justin is dedicated to building programs that empower early-career professionals to launch their careers while strengthening Experian’s future talent pipeline