I've just finished up week 4 at my new job.
Life circumstances had brought me to taking a professional leave for 3 years. Coming out of that leave, ready to get back to the working world, I was looking at a resume that really hadn't been updated for... a while.
My resume needed an overhaul, as did my confidence.
I didn't realize that I would get both from a Yelp search. I 'interviewed' a couple of career/job search professionals. Elizabeth just seemed like a smart, insightful, professional, but very approachable, good human.
In a fairly painless process, she gleaned the facts as well as the nuances of what I bring to the table professionally (as well as the dishes that I had brought to previous 'pot lucks'.) And she made them sound really good - enough so that it took a while for me to embrace that the end result wasn't full of half-true embellishments, but a more confident way to represent my real skills and temperament.. I would hire me!
As I hadn't had to 'really' interview for a new job in (ahem) decades, I had so many concerns and questions. In addition to overhauling my resume and making my LinkedIn profile look like I'm an adult, Elizabeth took the time to answer all of the concerns that I shared with her, even throughout my interviewing process. She was a touchstone of my navigation of the whole 'adventure', a cheerleader, a support, a reality check.
I made a really good decision in hiring her. read more