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Randi Bussin – Reinvention Strategist

Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Bill.

Randi Bussin is the Founder and President, Aspire! She is a career reinvention “strategist,” a rare quality that distinguishes her from other career coaches. She thrives on partnering with bright and successful New Englanders seeking more meaningful work aligned with their values, and reignites the internal spark and passion that has been dimmed by their current professional role. She guides them to gain clarity, a renewed sense of direction, and an actionable career reinvention plan. Reinvention could be an entirely new career, a new job more closely aligned with one’s values, an entrepreneurial pursuit based upon a passion, or a retirement game plan.

Randi’s personal story is one of gutsy and enterprising reinvention and renewal. With a newly minted graduate degree in Romance Languages, Randi ventured into high technology marketing, driven by the excitement and growth potential of the industry. Spurred by the growth of technology in Europe and a passion for global business, she set off to Paris to redefine herself and earn an MBA from one of the world’s top international business schools, INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. She worked in Paris for the next 10 years, savoring the food, the culture, and the local sights and sounds.

After 15 years in the technology industry, Randi became disillusioned with the industry’s frenetic pace, lack of creativity, and sole focus on profits. At this point, she left corporate America to launch her first company–an international strategy consulting firm. Trilogie Consultants helped to launch U.S. technology firms into international markets.

Ten years into this entrepreneurial pursuit, Randi felt plagued by work-life balance issues and became more passionate about helping others enrich their lives and find their passion. At this point, Randi embarked on a journey of self-discovery, learning that she was gifted and motivated in helping and inspiring others to lead their lives anchored by passion, meaning, and balance. After spending four years as an MBA career counselor in higher education, she launched her coaching practice.

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Kristi Daeda – Social Media and Marketing Strategist, Speaker, Coach

Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Bill.

Kristi Daeda is the founder of LaunchSummit.com and the CareerAdventureBlog.com She says “my own career has been a rambling road, which may be why I’m so passionate about helping others find their path.  Anyone can have a job, but a career that’s your calling…  that’s something else entirely. I started this site to provide resources and spark conversation among all of us that are looking to develop ourselves in pursuit of that calling, whether it be the corner office or a home office, as team members or running the show on our own. What’s my inspiring work?  I work with you to help you find your inspiring work.  We talk about dreams, we focus on what makes you happy, we learn more about the impact you want to have on the world.  Then, we get to work making things happen. I also work with organizations to develop the competitive advantage that comes with a world-class team.  You know, the kind that you’d like to work for”

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Kristen Jacoway – Career Design Coach, Author

Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by Bill.

Meet Kristen Jacoway, Career Design Coach. The seeds of Kristen’s calling were planted in her youth, beginning with the strong work ethic instilled in her by her parents. When she was in middle school, her father, now retired Charter NASA rocket scientist Gene Austin, brought home a Macintosh computer, and Kristen embarked on a journey of discovery. Kristen’s dad continually upgraded to stay abreast of cutting-edge technology over the years, and each wave of innovation provided a fresh opportunity for Kristen to develop a level of knowledge and skill uncommon among her contemporaries.

In the early 1990s, when Kristen landed her first career position as a vocational counselor with the State of Alabama, she purchased her own laptop to streamline the massive volume of paper flow. As the one of the first counselors in the state to apply technology in this manner, and she cut her paperwork by 50% and used the time she saved to provide faster and more efficient service to her clients.

Kristen developed a keen awareness of the importance of career change management when her husband’s job was off-shored by his employer, bringing an abrupt end to his 20-year manufacturing career. That experience was the driving force that inspired Kristen to find a way to assist others in managing their careers.

Career Design Coach
In Career Design Coach, Kristen brings it all together. Her empathy and passion are the fuel, while her technical expertise and knowledge of social media form the roadmap her clients use to manage their careers, networks, and online identities on the road to success.

She is Assistant Editor for Younique (a global newsletter reaching 45,000 subscribers), and her work as a contributing writer is featured in Cover Letters for Dummies 3rd Edition, by Joyce Lain Kennedy (Wiley Publishing, January 2009), as well as Personal Branding Blog and Jibber Jobber One Thing blog. She has been recently quoted in a press release and interviewed for an article for a major executive job board. Career Rocketeer named her as one of the 150+ Experts on Twitter that All Job Seekers Must Follow. A publishing company has recently placed her under contract to write a book on social media and traditional avenues in the job search. The title of the book is “I’m in a Job Search–Now What???” and was published in January 2010.

Kristen earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Vocational Counseling from Auburn University. Her professional credentials include:

• Certified Personal Brand Strategist
• Certified Career Coach
• Certified Rehabilitation Counselor
• Certified Professional Résumé Writer
• Certified Employment Interview Professional
• Certified Online Identity Specialist

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Dr. Richard Johnson – Founder ReCareerInc.com Coaching Certification

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by Bill.

Dr. Richard Johnson is the founder of ReCareerInc and is a nationally recognized spokesperson in the field of retirement and adult development, having written and lectured extensively in those fields. He is the former president of the American Association for Adult Development and Aging, and the founder of Retirement Options, an assessment, publishing and training firm offering consultation in mature career/life planning, as well as empowering individuals for the changes necessary in the new information economy.

Dr. Johnson is the creator of the Retirement Success Profile ©, the LifeOptions Profile ©, and the Retirement Options © program, developed from over 20 years of retirement research and dedicated to helping people lead enriched and fulfilling lives in their second half of life.

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Dane Hurtubise – CEO and Founder of JobSpice

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Bill.

Dane Hurtubise, CEO and founder of JobSpice, graduated from the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin.

Six months after graduation, an idea emerged. Due to the current state of the economy, Dane started receiving countless resumes from friends requesting his input and formatting help.  Dane, being from an engineering background, began to think of how he could build a tool to help his friends.  The idea started to take shape and with the support of his friend Andrew McCollum, a Harvard graduate and one of the original founders of Facebook, the idea became a product, JobSpice.

The two worked on the idea for about three months before being accepted and funded by the prestigious venture firm, Y Combinator. They moved to Silicon Valley, spent an entire summer working and launched to the general public in August of 2009.

The final product became a surprisingly easy-to-use online resume builder. Changing styles, managing different resumes for different employers, and creating web-based and PDF versions takes only a few clicks. The team plans to expand quickly from job-seekers to employers and recruiters addressing some of the challenges faced by HR departments.  The company is currently located in Austin, Texas.

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Dr. Tom Denham – Executive Career Coach

Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by Bill.

Many in the higher education and business community regard Dr. Tom Denham (Twitter)as a leading authority and popular speaker on career development, marketing and entrepreneurship.  His enthusiasm helps him to quickly connect with individuals and make an impact on them to take action.

He is the Managing Partner & Career Counselor of Careers In Transition LLC, a private practice in career services he founded in 1995, which focuses on career counseling for individuals and consulting services for institutional clients.  Tom has over sixteen years of experience in career services, having held leadership positions at Union College, Harvard, St. Lawrence and Boston Universities.  As the Director of the Siena College Career Center, students honored him in 2000 as the “Administrator of the Year.”

Tom founded Northeast Public Radio’s award winning talk show, The Career Forum.  He is the contributing writer for three books, has published over four-dozen articles, and has presented at over three-dozen conferences on career management issues.

He has served on the Board of Trustees for WMHT Educational Telecommunications and is Co-Chair of the Solo Entrepreneur’s Council of the Albany-Colonie Chamber of Commerce.  His company was a finalist for the Albany-Colonie Chamber’s 2006 Microenterprise of the Year Award.  In 2006, he was selected as one of the Albany Business Review’s “40 Under Forty” honorees, that recognizes young professionals making a difference in business and in the community.

Tom earned his bachelors from St. Lawrence University, his masters from Boston University and his doctorate from Nova Southeastern University.  He is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Qualified and has earned the Master Career Development Professional (MCDP) credential.  Tom is a former Eagle Scout and New York City Marathon runner.  As an accomplished mountain climber, he has summitted over 100 peaks in the Northeast.  He is also the author of the children’s book, Rachel’s Adirondack Adventure.  Tom lives where he grew up in Albany, New York where he enjoys competitive downhill skiing and running, mountain biking, softball, museums and raising his 7 year old daughter, Rachel.

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Andy Robinson – Executive Coach – Career Consulstant

Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

Andy Robinson (at Twitter) says “My passion is “helping my clients love what they do for a living and achieve incredible career success.”

Looking back over the past 15 years, some of the more common career situations where coaching made a major impact on my coaching clients’ careers has included:

Personal branding – establishing and communicating a compelling personal brand that creates maximum network “gravity” and business opportunity

New boss – developing a winning relationship with a new boss or new leader

New job / new position – making a noticeable and memorable impact in the first 90 days of a new job or new position

Stagnated career – getting “unstuck” from a stagnated career situation and re-establishing passion and career enthusiasm

Industry or functional transition – transitioning effectively across industry sectors and/or into a new area of functional expertise

Job loss – dealing effectively with job loss and executing a winning job search campaign – helping clients take control and move on to bigger and better things as quickly as possible

Protracted job search – mired in a seemingly “endless” job search – dealing with frustration, disappointment and loss of momentum. Helping clients re-establish direction and quickly achieve desired outcomes

Impending promotion opportunity – preparing and planning for an upcoming or near-term promotion. Staying on top of the “short list” of your employer’s leadership talent pool

Re-entering the workforce after an extended leave – getting your career back on track and loving what you do for a living

“Going solo” or launching a new business – effectively transitioning from “corporate” career success to entrepreneurial career success

Deliver maximum value – our coaching program is engineered to help you be a top performer and achieve extraordinary results on an ongoing basis

Master the key “career success axioms” – 3 philosophies, 6 strategies, and 6 skills that must be mastered to achieve lasting career success.

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Laurence Shatkin – Author, Career Expert

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

Laurence Shatkin is a Senior Product Developer at JIST Publishing, with 30 years of work in the field of career information who develops developing resources to help people make career decisions and plans.

He has been a researcher and developer at Educational Testing Service, where he helped develop the SIGI PLUS computer-based career information system. He oversaw the updating and enhancement of the SIGI PLUS database for over 15 years. He has served as a board member and as president of the Association of Computer-based Systems for Career Information. He is also a member of the National Career Development Assocation and a frequent presenter at their meetings.

• His VisualCV is at http://www.visualcv.com/lshatkin.

• A more traditional and detailed resume is at http://mysite.verizon.net/lshatkin1/resume.htm.

• His LinkedIn profile is at http://www.linkedin.com/in/careerinfo.

• He maintains a blog, Career Laboratory, that discusses what research is showing about careers.

• He twitters about careers at http://twitter.com/LaurenceShatkin.

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Scot Herrick – provides job guidance

Posted on 15. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

Scot Herrick is the owner of Cube Rules, LLC. CubeRules.com provides online career management training for workers who typically work in a corporate cubicle. Scot has a long history of management and individual contribution in multiple Fortune 100 corporations.

His corporate career has included assignments in sales, product design, project management, process engineering, workforce optimization and customer support. He has implemented individual products for customers and enterprise-wide customer relationship management systems. He has successfully managed groups of four to twenty-two people.

In 2005, Scot started sharing these hard lessons in what became CubeRules.com, a site devoted to Career Management for knowledge workers, whom he calls Cubicle Warriors.

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Alexandra Levit – WSJ Columnist, Author

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010 by Bill.

Alexandra Levit’s goal is to help people find meaningful jobs – quickly and simply – and to succeed beyond measure once they get there. In February, she was named as the Wall Street Journal’s newest career columnist and writes the Reinvent column that anchors the nationally syndicated Sunday Journal and appears weekly on WSJ.com. In the words of WSJ editor David Crook, “the reach is equivalent to hosting a national TV news show.”

Also a current columnist for Metro US, Alexandra has authored several books, including the popular They Don’t Teach Corporate in College (Career Press 2004 and 2009), How’d You Score That Gig? (Random House/Ballantine, 2008), Success for Hire (ASTD Press, 2008), MillennialTweet (SuperStar, 2009), and New Job, New You (Random House/Ballantine, 2010). Her book on the top myths of business success is due out from Penguin/Berkley in spring 2011.

Alexandra is a member of the Business Roundtable’s Springboard Project, which is advising the Obama administration on current workplace issues. She is a frequent national media spokesperson and has been featured in thousands of outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, National Public Radio, ABC News, Fox News, CNBC, the Associated Press, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and Fortune, and her articles regularly appear on the home pages of MSN and Yahoo!.

Known as one of the premiere spokespeople of her generation, Alexandra regularly speaks at conferences, universities, and corporations including Campbell’s Soup, CIGNA, the Federal Reserve Bank, McDonalds, and Whirlpool — on issues facing modern employees. Alexandra is also a global spokesperson for Microsoft’s program for new hires and has recently been called upon to speak to executives and managers about how to most strategically leverage the talent of the Millennial generation.

Alexandra has ten years of experience providing integrated marketing communications solutions for Fortune 500 companies and is also skilled at providing guidance regarding twenty-first century motherhood, human resources and general business issues, and entrepreneurship. She graduated from Northwestern University and resides in Chicago, IL with her husband Stewart and son Jonah.

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Bill Morgan – founder JobSwami.com

Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Bill Morgan is a branch manager for Sequla Technologies and the founder of JobSwami.com, a career advice blog offering free tools and materials to help with your job search.

He says “My Team is where companies go to first for finding the best IT Talent on the East Coast.

Make Segula your First Choice for those hard to find technology requirements and see me personally for Senior IT Staffing Needs from CTO, CIO on down. This includes Software Sales Professionals as well. With 20 years experience in IT, not just staffing, I have walked the walk.

We recruit for contract, temp-to-perm and permanent positions.

We are building a very significant Sharepoint practice as it integrates into the entire Enterprise Framework. See me how we can save you money, get you the best people and reduce your implementation time.”

I am always looking for great people to work with me as an employee or search partner as well. If you are either a Recruiter or Salesperson seeking employment in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware marketplace , feel free to email me at bmorgan@segulausa.com

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Brenda Bernstein – Founder and Senior Editor TheEssayExpert.com

Posted on 27. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Brenda Bernstein is the founder of The Essay Expert and  holds a B.A. in English from Yale University (class of 1991, magna cum laude) and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law (class of 1998, cum laude). She is trained by the Coaches Training Institute as a life coach and has ten years’ experience coaching individuals and companies on their writing projects. Brenda practiced law for ten years in New York City and is now a J.D. Career Advisor at the University of Wisconsin Law School Office of Career Services, as well as a writing coach and owner of The Essay Expert.

Brenda’s expertise lies not just in creating an effective product, but in listening closely to her clients’ background and goals. Clients report that they gain clarity about themselves and their message, in addition to having that message expressed on the page.

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Gene Burnard – Publisher Workforce50.com

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Bill.

Gene Burnard is the  Publisher of Workforce50.com.  He says “With the introduction of our blog, we will be able to accomplish a variety of things.  First, we will be able to get important information about employment and career transition over the age of 50 out to our readers quickly.  Readers can visit the blog on a regular basis to see what’s new or, they can subscibe to our RSS feed or email notifications.

Second, and I consider this one extremely important, we will be able to engage our readers in a dialog of sorts.  It’s important for us to hear from our readers on a regular basis.  Let us know what you are thinking and what your experiences are regarding any of our posts.

While I’m the Publisher of this Publisher’s Blog, and you will be hearing from me on a regular basis, I would like to welcome our other regular contributors.  N.J. Peterson, the Editor of Workforce50.com, will be sharing her knowledge of the employment industry.  And we will have many other regular guest contributors who are experts in their fields.  We all look forward to blogging about employment over 50!”

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