Meet the Superheroes behind CDI:

ADVISORY BOARD SR. DIRECTORS:

Laura DeCarlo, BS, MCD, CERW, CECC, CCMC, CCM, CEIC, IJCTC, CCRE, CWPP, 360Reach - President & Executive Director

Laura DeCarlo, BS, MCD, CERW, CECC, CCMC, CCM, CEIC, IJCTC, CCRE, CWPP, 360Reach - President & Executive Director

Laura DeCarlo offers 17 years of expertise in resume writing, career coaching and career management as Executive Director of A Competitive Edge Career Service, LLC and President of Career Directors International, an innovative association of career professionals. 

She holds nine industry certifications from Certified Expert Resume Writer to Master Career Director along with a dual BA in Creative / Technical Writing and extensive HR, Training and Counseling graduate studies.

She is resume writing expert for 54 professional associations such as PMI, AMA, AJST, ASAE, ASME and ASCE. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Interviewing: The Gold Standard program and co-author of Job Search Bloopers; she has also been published in 15+ resume / cover letter compendiums. She has won seven prestigious resume writing and job placement awards, and has pioneered numerous industry education, outreach and recognition programs such as the Certified Employment Interview Consultant and Certified Web Portfolio Practitioner programs.

Other accomplishments include nationwide transition programs for organizations such as the US Treasury, national conference speaking engagements, former 2-year employment guest columnist for The Florida Today newspaper and Director of Placement for Herzing College. She has been quoted in publications such as Forbes (IMPRESS), Working Mother and the Wall Street Journal, and appeared on NBC 7/39 News in San Diego and Wall Street Journal Radio.

Areas of expertise: resume and career document development, interviewing, salary negotiation, career fraud, job search, career coaching, career change and transition, career management, training, public speaking, social networking, personal branding, career branding, social networking, Twitter job search, resume fraud, web portfolios/web resumes, career research and trends.

Email: laura@careerdirectors.com

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Aricia LaFrance holds her Master's Degree in Educational Psychology and is a Professional Certified Coach who came to coaching after her career as a therapist and adolescent addictions specialist. She uses a variety of modalities to coach clients from the standpoint of helping them understand themselves and their motivations more clearly so they are able overcome challenges and attract more of what they want into their lives. She has been quoted with work featured in USA Today, MSNBC, Family Circle, Mothering Magazine and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Associated Press followed her on a coaching job to learn more about her approach.

Aricia has served as a member coach and mentor within CDI since 2008. Now in private practice, she has worked with IMPACT Relocation and Career Coach Institute. She has authored several books including The Psychology of the Successful Job Seeker (due out this Fall) and regularly contributes articles to NCDA and CDI.

An avid youth advocate, Aricia created and ran a mentoring center for teens following the tragedy at Columbine High School and worked with the probation department to create programs for families in conflict to help them get their lives back on track. Her diversity and background as a therapist has also led to the development of a variety of coaching-based services and programs with parent/family consulting, spiritual guidance, and career / business analysis and coaching. She is also the host of a Blog Talk radio show which interviews a wide range of professionals

She lives in Colorado with her partner of 15 years and their two teen-age boys.

Web sites: www.aricialafrance.com, www.dynamicfamilycoachingsolutions.com

Email: aricialafrance@yahoo.com 

Susan Guarneri, MS, NCCC, CPBS, CERW, CCMC, 360Reach, CPRW, CEIP, IJCTC, NCC, CCTJ, MCC - Advisory Group Member & Former Director of Member Programs & Innovation

Susan Guarneri, the “Career Assessment Goddess” and “Resume-Magic Expert”, has a Master’s Degree in Counseling from The Johns Hopkins University, plus 21 years of experience in career counseling and coaching thousands of individuals. She has also assisted Fortune 500 companies, colleges, non-profits and government agencies with career consulting, training and workforce development.

Currently in private practice, Susan is the only National Certified Career Counselor worldwide who is also certified as a Personal Branding Strategist and Career Management Coach. Her articles and interviews have been featured in careerjournal.com, The Princeton Business Journal, The Wausau Daily Herald, New Jersey News, Richard Bolles’ (author of What Color Is Your Parachute?) Radio Show, The Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, as well as professional association publications and best-selling books. She is the co-author of Job Search Bloopers: Every Mistake You Can Make on the Road to Career Suicide.

Susan also authored the acclaimed New Jersey SUCCESS Program for women re-entering the workforce, as well as the New York City Summer Youth Employment Training Program. Her current “Master the Maze of Career Assessments” program is an intensive assessments training “boot camp”. Leadership roles include: 360Reach Certification Leadership Team, Career Assessment Expert for Career Directors International (CDI) and the Career Masters Institute (CMI), and Director of Member Programs and Innovation for CDI.

Web sites: www.Resume-Magic.com; www.AssessmentGoddess.com

Email: Susan@AssessmentGoddess.com

Susan P. Joyce has owned, edited, and Webmastered Job-Hunt.org since 1998. Since 1994, she has been researching, writing, and teaching about online job search, with an emphasis on privacy and reputation protection. Her background is IT and she has an MBA in information systems and operations management. For three years, she worked in Harvard University’s Personnel Office and spent one year working in a salary compensation survey and consulting company.

Susan is also a Vietnam Era veteran, with three years in the USMC as an intelligence officer (intelligence gathering and analysis works fine when it isn’t driven by a political agenda!), and also a corporate layoff “graduate” (1994, Digital Equipment Corporation - at the time, a FORTUNE 40 company which was #2 in the computer industry behind IBM and way ahead of HP).

Job-Hunt is an award-winning employment portal which is provided to job seekers at no cost because it is 100% advertiser supported.

• Since 2002, it has been a Forbes magazine “Best of the Web for job hunting” site.
• Since 2006, it has been a US News & World Report top site for finding work.
• In 2004, PC Magazine selected it as a “Best of the Internet for Careers” site.
• It is one of Richard (What Color Is Your Parachute) Bolles favorite “gateway” Website.
• It has been recommended by CBS MarketWatch and many print and online publications and news sources.
• It’s an Alexa top 100,000 site (out of about 8 million sites tracked) with approximately 48,000 in-bound links (links TO Job-Hunt).
• It has nearly 14,000 links to carefully-selected employers and career resources.

About Susan:

• Emily Rooney of Boston’s WBGH (PBS) TV station called me “an online job search guru” in an interview they did for a program on the topic of safe online job search.
• She has written articles for The Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal and for CIO magazine.

• She has been quoted in TIME, FORTUNE, Business Week (online), WSJ, Investors Business Daily, NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and countless other print and online publications.

Web site: www.job-hunt.org

Email: sjoyce@netability.com

Audrey Prenzel, BA, B.Ed., CARW, CEIC - Committee Director of International Relations

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Web site: www.resumeresources.ca

Email: resumeresources@gmail.com

Laura Drew is a Certified Employment Interview Consultant (CEIC) and a candidate for Certified Career Research Expert (CCRE). She has been a member of Career Directors International (CDI) since 2006.  As a member of CDI, Laura serves on the Awards, Education, and Research Committees. With over 20 years experience working with non-profit organizations and her many years in corporate America, Laura has experience in all facets of HR. As a Career Coach, Workshop Leader, and Authorized Teleclass.com Instructor, Laura specializes in Interview Strategies with a special interest in Resume Effectiveness, Job Transitioning, Work /Life Balance, Workplace Discrimination, and Compensation Trends.

Web site: www.carolinacareercoach.com

Email: laura@carolinacareercoach.com

Pat Schuler is the President of The Gemini Resources Group, home of Kick Butt Sales Training™. Over 23 years of experience in corporate America as an award-winning sales professional to Fortune 500 companies positioned her to build a solid reputation in the careers industry as mentor, coach, and friend. Her mission is to help independent sales professionals to excel, frequently with results of no less than 37% revenue growth in as little as 90-120 days. For the past 11 years she has been guiding people (independent professionals and small business owners) through the process of learning to ask for what they’re worth – without being mistaken for the greedy, pushy salesperson.

Pat is Past President and current VP of The Circle of Connections, President of Business Women’s Network, and member of Career Directors International, Adventures in Brainstorming, Marketing on the Playground, and Career Management Alliance. She has presented sales strategy workshops and seminars to numerous groups, corporations, small businesses, and conferences – most recently CDI’s 2009 Annual Career Empowerment Summit. She also partners with The Academy on The Serious Revenue Program.

Web sites: www.geminiresourcesgroup.com, www.kickbuttsalestraining.com

Email: pat@kickbuttsalestraining.com

A native of Silicon Valley, Tony has extensive background working in a wide variety of companies both start-up and global multinational. A certified life and executive coach, Tony received his Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco. Tony has used his expertise in career coaching, executive development and organization strategy to help companies and individuals achieve a more satisfying and efficient workplace.

As an author, Tony developed the Tangling with Tyrants® book series as a way to educate hard-working people on how to overcome the challenges of dealing with a difficult boss. An avid dabbler in all things Web 2.0, Tony provides support to the CDI Wiki. He is also developing several information portal websites targeted at workers and career professionals that provide a unique forum to discuss work related trends.

Web site: www.hr4change.com, www.tanglingwithtyrants.com

Email: hr4change@yahoo.com

Laura M. Labovich is an award-winning Resume Writer, Guild Certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach and Job Search Strategist with more than 15 years of HR experience at Fortune 100 companies, including Walt Disney World and AOL Time Warner. As President of A & E Consulting, LLC (Aspire! Empower!), she provides customized job search strategy and résumé writing solutions to individuals and groups, helping her get “unstuck” in their job search, increase their momentum and achieve breakthrough results.

Prior to launching her own practice, Laura recruited nationwide for the highly competitive Walt Disney World College Program, and led the recreation staffing efforts for both Disney's Typhoon Lagoon and Disney's Blizzard Beach water parks. At America Online, Inc., she designed, developed and launched a first ever company-wide college internship program, and coached hundreds of employees from entry-level to executive in areas such as career development, employee relations and retention, effective communication, training and development and organizational effectiveness.

Credentials and Training:

• Masters degree in Labor Relations and Human Resources Management from Michigan State University
• Guild Certified Five O’Clock Club Career Coach
• Certified Advanced Resume Writer (CARW)
• Certified Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC)
• Licensed Facilitator for the Get Hired Now!™ 28-Day Program for Landing a Job You Want
• Outplacement Coach for CareerBuilder.com
• Credentialed Career Master (CCM)
• Four-time TORI (Toast of the Résumé Industry) nominee and award-winner for “Best Executive Resume” through Career Directors
• International CAREEREALISM-Approved Expert and daily contributor to the Twitter Advice Project (T.A.P.)

Web site: http://aspire-empower.com/default.aspx

Email: aspireempower@gmail.com

Gayle Howard, CARW, CERW, CCM, CPRW, BIC, HRCC, CWPP, MCD, MRWLAA - Committee Director of Certifications & Resume Awards

Gayle Howard is a Career Directors International’s most decorated resume writer with more than 12 first place TORI Awards to her credit including the coveted 2007 Master Resume Writer Lifetime Achievement Award.

A Certified Expert Resume Writer and Master Career Director, Gayle has been published in more than 22 international career books, and is an author in her own right with her book PS...You Need a Résumé—a definitive guide for jobseekers that later became a required reading resource for resume writing peers to acquire international certification with CDI. In 2007 Gayle released her e-course and companion book, PS...You’re a Résumé Expert that became the official resume writing course endorsed by CDI.

Gayle is clear about her aims. “I explode the myths surrounding resume writing by creating living documents that freeze special moments in time so they can be crystallized in the mind of the reader. Each career capsule as I call it, is a client’s moment in the spotlight—meticulously crafted to trigger that must-have response in recruiters and employers.” Gayle’s business, Top Margin Career Marketing Services opened its doors in March 1990 and has become a trendsetter in resume excellence.

Web site: www.topmargin.com

Email: getinterviews@topmargin.com