Rita Ogbeama
Name:
Rita Ogbeama
Twitter:
@RitaDST
Personal Website/Blog:
www.Rita-Ogbeama.com
Bio:
Rita Ogbeama, a career services specialist, helps entry-level, mid and high-level job-seekers become more confident and savvy job search strategists. Rita has written for Examiner.com on effective job search strategies and currently sits on the advisory board for Experience.com. She coaches job seekers to take ownership of their search. She is highly effective at providing coaching on content development on resumes/cover letters, social media profiles, and elevator pitches.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” (Unknown)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
It is difficult for job seekers to keep up with the expectations of employers. I find it to be an enjoyable experience to provide assistance to job seekers making them better equipped to handle the demands of today’s job market. CAREEREALISM allows me to connect with other respected career experts to ensure I am providing sound and updated career advice to job seekers.
Articles written by this expert:
Patricia Erickson
Name:
Patricia Erickson
Twitter:
@CareerCoachPro
Personal Website/Blog:
www.avitacareermanagement.com
www.avitacareermanagement.com/blog/
Bio:
Patricia Erickson is a seasoned career management expert and certified professional resume writer with more than twelve years of national executive recruiting and coaching experience. She partners with professionals and job seekers to design strategies that transform careers. Patricia has been instrumental in navigating clients toward their career aspirations as well as finding true purpose and personal fulfillment.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.” (Jane Wagner)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
The opportunity to partner with clients to uncover talents, tap into personal strengths, and gain clarity on lifelong goals and aspirations. For some people thinking about life purpose and personal motivation doesn’t even enter the picture – after working with me, clients focus on what is most important and what needs to happen to achieve amazing results.
Articles written by this expert:
5 Surefire Resume Writing Tips
Abby Locke
Name:
Abby Locke
Twitter:
@abbylocke
Personal Website/Blog:
www.premierwriting.com
www.executivecareerinsights.com
Bio:
Abby M. Locke of Premier Writing Solutions (www.premierwriting.com) is a highly credentialed executive career architect and leadership brand coach who partners with executive women MBAs to help them achieve career success through cutting-edge, brand-focused career documents, innovative job search tools, and proactive career management strategies. She has been interviewed and quoted in Essence Magazine, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CEO Update, Monster.com, Kiss 105.9, ABCnews.com and SHRM. Her distinctive resume samples have been featured in national career publications including Top Notch Executive Resumes, Sales & Marketing Resumes for $100,000 Careers, Resume Magic and Jobseeker’s Guide for Working with Executive Recruiters.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“You have two choices in life. You can dissolve into the main stream, or you can choose to become an achiever and be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no else but you can be.” (Unknown)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
I love the opportunity to share my industry knowledge and expertise to a wide, diverse audience and serve as a source of relevant information, advice and motivation for active job seekers and ambitious careerists.
Articles written by this expert:
7 Effective Job Search Strategies for Executive Career Transitions
Career Success Strategy for Professionals Over 40
Emily Bennington
Name:
Emily Bennington
Twitter:
@EmilyBennington
Personal Website/Blog:
www.professionalstudio365.com
Bio:
Emily Bennington is the co-author of Effective Immediately: How to Fit In, Stand Out, and Move Up at Your First Real Job, a book written with her own post-college boss and mentor. Emily teaches a graduate-level course on professionalism and is passionate about helping career newbies become emerging leaders.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Leaders must learn to manage themselves before they can influence others.” (Peter Drucker)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
I love connecting with students, first-year employees, and career colleagues.
Articles written by this expert:
To Find a Mentor, Be a Student
Don’t Let a Good Message Get Lost in Poor Delivery
Jessica Miller-Merrell
Name:
Jessica Miller-Merrell
Twitter:
@blogging4jobs
Personal Website/Blog:
www.blogging4jobs.com
Bio:
Jessica Miller-Merrell, SPHR is an author, new mother, and human resources professional with a passion for the job search, recruiting, and all things social media. Jessica has over 10 years of experience in human resources and recruiting industry. She specializes in helping job seekers with personal branding specializing and job search strategies helping others learn the unwritten rules of the job search. Her creative technique and strategies have received national recognition from Entrepreneur, Glamour Magazine, HR Executive Magazine, and Employment Digest. Jessica also is the host of the only live job search web show every Sunday 9 PM EST on MomTV.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“To climb the ladder of success, you don’t need more techniques and strategies, you need more friends.” (Jeffrey Gitomer)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
CAREEREALISM is a great way for job seekers to connect and learn from experts in real time. I love helping others and developing creative ways to network and market job seekers using my background as a corporate and third party recruiter.
Articles written by this expert:
6 Tricks to Increase Your Odds on Job Boards
6 Tools for Managing Social Media
Daphne Houston
Name:
Daphne Houston
Twitter:
@drdaphne
Personal Website/Blog:
www.HowtoGetaFederalJob.com
Bio:
Daphne has been in the careers and employment business for over 15 years, helping hundreds of government and non-government clients land jobs and thrive in successful careers. Her certifications include: Certified Federal Resume Specialist, Certified Federal Job Search Trainer, Certified Federal Career Consultant, Certified Job Search Specialist, Certified Performance Based Hiring Expert, and Professional Human Resources.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Your skills will get you a job, but your gifts will change your life.” (Dr. Daphne Houston)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
I enjoy staying abreast of employment trends, sharing real world tips to get results, educating others, and being a part of business, job search and career success. I live for that!
Articles written by this expert:
7 Federal Job Search Myths Dispelled
Debra Wheatman
Name:
Debra Wheatman
Twitter:
@DebraWheatman
Personal Website/Blog:
www.ResumesDoneRight.com
Bio:
With 20+ years as a strategic career advisor, Debra helps clients obtain highly desired interviews for competitive positions, including preparing results-oriented resumes, and providing guidance centered around interview preparation, salary negotiations, and overall career management.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
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What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM Approved-Expert?
This program is a wonderful way for me to share information regarding career planning and management topics to help a diverse group of job seekers.
Articles written by this expert:
5 Parts to a Cover Letter (a.k.a. How to Write a Good One!)
Career Equation: 5 Considerations + 4 Skills = 1 Good Career Move
Would I Hire Me if I Were You?
Netiquette 101 = 6 Must-Follow Rules
Is It Time For a Coach?
6 Leadership Traits YOU (the Employee) Need to Develop On-the-Job
Gaping Gap? How to Plug Holes in Your Work History
7 Ways to Get a Hiring Manager’s Name
4 Self-Perceptions Can Improve Your Career!
5 Ways Body Language Can Cost You the Job
Don’t Let Workplace Rejection Get You Down
Creativity Lands the Interview?
Tapping Into the Hidden Job Market
Colin Daymude
Name:
Colin Daymude
Twitter:
@colindaymude
Personal Website/Blog:
www.TheJobGenius.com
Bio:
Colin has run recruiting and Human Resources teams as large as 100 strong and personally, or through his teams, coordinated the recruiting and training of over 50,000 professionals. After starting his own training company, he became a student of marketing. Adding that experience to his my Human Resources knowledge makes a potent combination for any job seeker.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Because all jobs are temporary.” (J.T. O’Donnell)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
CAREEREALISM is a place where free ideas flow for the benefit of the millions of people who are seeking employment or better employment. We aren’t offering up a gimmick; just real solutions from real people who have been there and done that. What a great resource.
Articles written by this expert:
Top 5 Unhealthy Habits Keeping Job Seekers Miserably Unemployed
4 Ways to Be the ONLY One in Your Field Getting Work
13 Reasons You Will Never Get a Job (Or, 13 Ways You Could)
Sean Harry
Name:
Sean Harry
Twitter:
@careers20
Personal Website/Blog:
www.CareerAdvice4U.com/blog
Bio:
For over 20 years Sean has been successful at helping train and motivate people to find what’s important in life and develop a strategy to achieve it.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” (Henry Ford)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
Being a CAREERALISM-Approved Expert allows me to reach out beyond my local crowd to help more people find the perfect career for this time in their life.
Articles written by this expert:
ABCs of Career Management (3 Ways to Improve Your Career in 2010)
Day in the Life of a Successful Job Seeker
How Effective is Your Resume?
7 Key Ways to Promote Your Personal Brand
Ilona Vanderwoude
Name:
Ilona Vanderwoude
Twitter:
@CareerBranches
Personal Website/Blog:
www.CareerBranches.com
www.Blog.CareerBranches.com
Bio:
Ilona (“rhymes with Fiona”) Vanderwoude’s passion is helping modern-day “Renaissance Personalities” – those with highly diverse skills and interests – create exciting lives and careers. As a Career Designer, she guides her clients in crafting unusual life and career plans, helps them fit a million passions into one lifetime, and provides the tactical support to actually make it happen. Ilona founded CareerBranches in 2001, is a nationally published author, and holds elite resume-writing and coaching credentials (she’s one of 28 Master Resume Writers worldwide).
The bottom line is that she shows her clients how to branch out and live the life they didn’t think was possible for them.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Not making a choice is also a choice.” (Unknown)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
I enjoy providing real-time answers via the Twitter Advice Project and getting a peek into my colleagues’ heads through their answers.
Articles written by this expert:
Resolutions Schmesolutions: 3 Steps to Attain Results
Still Not Sure “What to Be When You Grow Up?”
Changing Careers? Zig-zag Your Way Into New Territory!
