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Beth Colley is a Certified Expert Résumé Writer with 10 years of career management, résumé writing, and workforce development experience. Having worked in both for-profit and non-profit environments, she provides extensive insight to best practice recruiting, outplacement, career transition, and job search methods. She brings extensive expertise and insight to individual professionals facing career transition through one-on-one service, and is available on a corporate contract basis to guide and consult with businesses facing small to large-scale Reduction in Force (RIF) decisions.

Since launching Chesapeake Résumé Writing Service, an MBE/DBE Certified business in Maryland, she has distinguished herself as one of the top professionals in her field. Her résumés are published in Expert Résumés for Baby Boomers, Designing the Perfect Résumé, Military to Civilian Résumés and Cover Letters, and Federal to Civilian Guidebook. She possesses three professional certifications in résumé writing and federal job search. She is a resource to multiple online journalists and has been quoted in Execunet Newsletters, The Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Annapolis Capital, and other online resources.

Beth has distinguished herself with a proven track record of performance by providing résumé writing and career management services to a wide variety of job seekers and professionals ranging from top executives at Fortune 500 companies, senior ranking government officials, to recent college graduates across multiple industries. She has provided outplacement services to small businesses in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Region and regularly writes and facilitates presentations and workshops on résumé writing, CV development, federal job search, federal résumé writing, interviewing, job search strategies, and multiple other career transition related topics. In September of 2009, she facilitated a program on CV development to a group of University of Medical Center Residents.


Programs

Beth is available for interviews, talks, classes, or seminars on the following topics

  • Executive résumé writing
  • Writing an executive bio
  • Information technology résumés
  • Résumés for Sales Professionals
  • Résumés for lawyers
  • CV writing for doctors, researchers, and professors
  • Recent graduates and college student résumés
  • Federal résumés and job application strategies
  • KSA (knowledge, skills, and abilities)
  • Military to civilian career transition
  • Military to federal career transition
  • Traditional job search methods
  • Job search and résumés for Baby Boomers
  • Job search and résumés for Generation X
  • Job search and résumés for the
    Millennial or Generation Y
  • Leveraging social media for job search
  • Interviewing for Job seekers
  • Career transition following a lay off, RIF, or downsizing
  • Dealing with employment gaps in a résumé
  • Recruiting – strengthening a company’s brand
  • Recruiting – vehicles for non-traditional talent sourcing
  • Recruiting – Sourcing the right information (interviewing)
  • Case management for Workforce Development Professionals in the WIA One-Stops.
  • Customer Service Training for Workforce Development Professionals in the WIA One-Stops
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