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Meet Your Author: Robert Parker
Robert Parker began working as a professional consultant about twenty years ago. What he says he does is “create results for a living.” As a financial services specialist, his programming and project management work focuses on building large-scale reporting systems. After a lackluster start to adult life, consulting helped him to become achievement-oriented. And that’s helped him earn a steady six-figure income for over a decade. The bulk of his professional work is in the highly competitive IT sector of the highly competitive financial services industry without a college degree and with little formal training. He says, “Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t achieve high goals because of your background. It’s never true unless you listen to other people and ignore your own inner guidance and wisdom.”
Sometimes it seems as though he interviews for a living. He’s spent years practicing what he preaches about resume writing, interviewing and career strategies. As a professional consultant he gets the opportunity to interview more than most people. Among his friends and professional associates, his success at targeting positions is legendary. His resume not only gets noticed but regularly gets compliments from recruiters and executives on it’s appearance and structure–even though he breaks several traditional rules.
Some of the companies he’s worked with include:
- ADP
- AT&T
- College Board
- Exxon
- M&M/Mars
- McKinsey
- Merrill Lynch
- Morgan Stanley
- Movado
His approach to job searching involves a combination of negotiating skills, marketing tactics and old-fashioned self confidence building. In January 2005, his resume and a phone conversation with a recruiter were enough to land him a three month project that was worth $47,982. There was no client interview! Before that he spent 5½ years at one company as a contract consultant–that’s longer than many full-time employees stay around these days. That contract was worth a total of $879,750 across the 5½ years.
He began helping people with their resumes several years ago. That soon blossomed into strategizing about career planning and career moves. A few years ago he set to the task of organizing all of the steps necessary to create a killer resume and published a concise guide. Now he is focusing on the bigger picture beyond just resumes and he’s sharing his insights and information about the entire career planning process. Blogging, personal consults and group presentations are his current focus. He lives in a quiet suburb in Connecticut within the New York metropolitan area. This gives him easy access to countless companies and groups interested in having him present his ideas to their employees or members.
Robert hopes that you find his blog posts both enlightening and entertaining and that they help you to clarify your own direction and goals as your life unfolds and your career plans manifest.
Janine Hitchens
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