My Background & The History of Proven Resumes!

In 1985, I started a resume writing business and have now written over 15,000 resumes and 13 resume and cover letters.  Now, a Master Resume Writer I share many of the secrets I've learned since writing my very first resume ... and even with the first resumes I wrote, clients began reporting they were getting double and triple their interview rates with some landing an interview for every resume sent out. I attributed this success to my love and study of advertising coupled with a degree in marketing. Plus my keen awareness of the self doubt many job seekers feel when they began marketing themselves and looking for a job -- something almost all of us hate! I found that at least half of my time with clients (usually 2-3 hours with each person) was spent as a motivational coach - helping them identify and believe in their top skills!

Feeling I needed experience in interviewing and hiring personnel, I then spent the next three years doing this for Dunhill Personnel Systems and Express Personnel. Then I opened and managed my own personnel agency. During this time I interviewed thousands of applicants and placed hundreds of people in jobs with major Northwest employers. However, I missed working with people and coaching them. So I changed careers and became a Career Development Instructor with a leading business college.

In 1994 I finally finished my first book, Proven Resumes and Confidence Builders. I then went to work as a Job Placement Specialist for the University of Washington, Bothell. My presentations on resume writing often resulted in comments like, "Gee, this is the best presentation I've every seen!" Responses like this came from everyone. In less than 4 years my materials had been sold to over 60 colleges and more than 40 Employment Security and Worker Assistance programs. I gave presentations for Boeing Re-Employment Centers, Employment Security Offices, United Parcel Service - HR Department in Oregon, Northwest Educational Conferences and The City of Seattle. Based on the success ESD offices were experiencing as a result of my materials, I was recommended by a Regional Administrator to the Governor's Board on Employment Issues as a trainer for a state wide program.

Being hailed a Master Trainer by college instructors and career development professionals, I soon became busy enough that I focused all of my time giving presentations. Then in 1996 I began writing the Career-Specific Booklets offered in this site. Having given hundreds of resume writing seminars I learned first-hand what excited and motivated job seekers as they watched my presentation. Armed with this information I wrote Proven Resumes: Strategies That Have Increased Salaries and Changed Lives! and packed it to the brim with all the information I knew that job seekers wanted the most and that I had seen land the most interviews and highest salary offers! It received immediate acceptance and even more success stories came rolling in from job seekers who have purchased it! As you move through this site you'll find these testimonials.

All in all, I estimate that about a million people have been taught the Proven Resumes System via this website and by the pool of instructors and worker assistance programs who use my materials! Over the last ten years, I also estimate that I've spent well over 12,000 hours working directly with job seekers writing their resumes and hundreds of more hours teaching resume and job search classes.

So that's my background. By integrating my love of marketing and advertising and blending it with confidence building strategies the Proven Resumes System really has taken on a life and success of it's own. As you navigate through my site, I think you'll find that the strategies presented here (and remember they're just little tidbits) are far superior to other resume information you'll find.

I encourage you to buy my materials because they really do have a strong history of success - which is documented by the testimonials from job seekers, academic deans, directors of Workforce training and worker assistance programs, college instructors and career counselors. All of whom, have provided written signed testimonials... and to me these endorsements from real job seekers and career professionals say much more than I can say in pitching my materials to you!!

Good luck on your journey! And thanks for visiting! (scroll back up to enter the workshops!)