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:
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
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)
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?”
Laura Labovich
Name:
Laura Labovich
Twitter:
@LauraLabovich
Personal Website/Blog:
www.aspire-empower.com
Bio:
Laura Labovich, MLRHR, is a Guild Certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach, speaker, trainer, networking expert and award-winning resume writer with more than 12 years of HR leadership experience at Walt Disney World and America Online, Inc. As a job coach and writer, Laura specializes in getting her clients “unstuck” in their job search by partnering with them to develop proactive, targeted and effective job search marketing plans that increase campaign momentum and achieve breakthrough results!
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.” (Zig Ziglar)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
I enjoy the opportunity to share such an exciting platform with outstanding career industry advisors, and be a resource to job seekers who are “searching” but having difficulty “finding!”
Articles written by this expert:
What Jerry Maguire Can Teach You About Job Search
Stuck in Your Job Search? Join the Club!
6 Ways to Implement a Generous Job Search!
Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter
Name:
Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter
Twitter:
@ValueIntoWords
Personal Website/Blog:
www.CareerTrend.net
Bio:
Jacqui is one of only 27 Master Resume Writers (MRW) globally, has a BA in Writing and has amassed 15 years’ corporate experience. An intuitive researcher, Jacqui unearths clients’ most compelling story details, applies an inventive approach to content development and design, and originates uniquely branded career resume and social media profiles, including LinkedIn, Twitter and personal marketing websites, stirring interest and response.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Remember that encouragement creates courage in others. Courage leads to confidence. Confidence lets them fly.” (Unknown)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
It sharpens my career advice toolkit, allows me to align should-to-shoulder every day with respected and smart careers colleagues and permits me to be a global resource to job seekers during times of economic stress as well as times of profound economic turnaround and growth.
Articles written by this expert:
Sailing Through Job Search (5 Rules of the Sea for Job Seekers)
Resume Real Estate: Why You Need ‘Curb Appeal’
Digging Out from the Storm of Job Loss
Julia Erickson
Name:
Julia Erickson
Twitter:
@juliaerickson
Personal Website/Blog:
www.JulieAnnErickson.blogspot.com
Bio:
Julia Erickson is a writer and coach focusing on career transformation and improving people’s work lives. Her philosophy is that you can get your “right fit” work once you are clear about what it is, and have the plan and tools to effectively market yourself. As a coach and writer, Julia draws on her 25 year career leading non-profit organizations in New York City, including 12 years as Executive Director/CEO. She also spent four years focused on NYC’s workforce development needs. Julia coaches job seekers, career changers, and newly promoted executives from all industries. Her blog provides guidance and tools to handle the practical and emotional aspects of job search.
What’s your favorite career related quote?
“Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” (Goethe)
What’s your favorite part about being a CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert?
Sharing my knowledge to help others, learning from the other experts, and keeping up with what’s going on in the world of work.
Articles written by this expert:
“Right Fit” Job: Guide to Finding Work You Love
Personality Tests: How to Choose the RIGHT Answers
Interview ANTICS: What Hiring Managers Are Really Asking
