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aula Marks for Hire Resources Inc. offers career coaching based on the real-world needs of industry and people. Paula firmly believes in the mantra “Behavior Drives People; People Drive Business™,” and her coaching emphasizes effective communication in the job-search process. It is her goal to help people build a purposeful life doing work they love. Love: not hate, not tolerate, not like a little on Fridays only.
Paula will help you make the connections within yourself and with others. She will help you understand your strengths and weaknesses, clearly define your skills and abilities, clarify goals, and effectively network and negotiate. From writing a meaningful Talking Resume to finding fulfilling work, Paula’s individual coaching sessions and coaching workshops are infused with humor and empathy, yet packed with clear and actionable steps to ensure your career success.
Her depth and breadth of experience working for and with the hiring managers and top executives of myriad types of companies — large and small, local and international, for-profit and nonprofit, corporate and entrepreneurial — gives her the knowledge and insight to coach clients to their full career and life potential. Seeking your meaningful work is a process, and Paula is an expert in that process. She will help you weave your unique fabric of success.
Individual Career Coaching
Many decades of coaching individuals has allowed Paula to develop processes that work. She will tailor your coaching sessions to your specific needs, mining your work and life history to find the tools to move you forward. Paula will help you identify and overcome obstacles to your success, build tangible skills — from networking to interviewing to management — for your life and work, and direct you toward finding more meaningful, fulfilling and gainful work.
Resume Therapy
Your resume may be the most important single item of your job search. Surely you would not entrust an unknown and random person to work with you on your mental health; the same is true of your resume. While there are plenty of resume-building sites online, beware that one size most definitely does not fit all when it comes to the first — and, if you are not careful, the only — thing a potential employer knows about you. Paula Marks has conducted Resume Therapy for her clients for decades. She offers proven, experienced, customized, one-on-one coaching to ensure your success in building your own Talking Resume.
Small-Group Career Coaching
Paula likes to refer to small-group coaching as her very own economic stimulus plan. Perhaps your co-workers or your mothers’ group needs assistance in job transitioning. Maybe you and your best friend are looking to develop your skills. Duets, triplets and groups of up to 12 people can derive many of the benefits of individual coaching while sharing the financial cost. Topics, tools and outcomes are expertly tailored to the needs of participants, and coaching can be arranged as single sessions or ongoing programs.
Workshops
Having held workshops for groups as small as two and as large as several hundred, for diverse audiences ranging from C-level executives to single-parent groups to college students, Paula is known for her fun, substantive and, most importantly, productive programs. Covering topics from networking (she’s the queen) to workplace behavior to problem-solving, Paula uses a multidisciplinary, activity-based, experiential approach to ensure all attendees maximize their time. Click here for upcoming workshops. Please contact Paula directly to discuss scheduling workshops for your group, organization or business.
What is a “Talking Resume™”?
Drawing on her decades of resume-creation experience, Paula will literally talk you through your life and work experience with two goals in mind. First, to uncover the information that will allow you to create a meaningful resume that will speak to the jobs and employers you are seeking. Second, the session serves as a mock interview, allowing you to polish and hone your skills.
During your session, Paula will listen, direct, advise and help you overcome obstructions, challenge assumptions and find those “Aha” nuggets that will differentiate you and your resume. She will help you to extract words and data you didn't even know you have and to repackage them. When you complete this proven process, you will have newfound clarity, skills and everything you need for your Talking Resume.