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Katharine Hansen
Credentialed Career Master
Certified Electronic Career Coach
1250 Valley View Lane, DeLand, FL 32720-2364
386/740-8872 º 386/734-1747
e-mail: khansen@stetson.edu
or kathy@quintcareers.com
RESUME
WRITER º CAREER-DEVELOPMENT EXPERT º
ONLINE CAREER COACH º
EDUCATOR
Professional
Profile
- Highly
intuitive career and communications professional with exceptional
writing skills and proficient technical capabilities.
- Creative, innovative teacher,
instructor, trainer, and coach with solid
knowledge of the career-development field.
- Excellent organizer who is
adept at establishing efficient work processes.
Certifications
Highlights of Professional Experience and
Accomplishments
Career Development
Consistently address client and student career-development and
job-seeking needs by:
- Writing
and updating Dynamic Cover
Letters for New Graduates (1998), 11,500 copies sold, and three
editions of Dynamic Cover Letters,
a how-to book for jobseekers, 101,000 copies of which have been sold to
date and which is used in college classrooms; and A Foot in
the Door, about networking in the job search, (2000), 7,000
copies sold.
- Serving as chief writer for online
resume and cover-letter service.
- Providing career-development
content for Quintessential Careers
Web site and editing QuintZine, an
online newsletter for jobseekers;
- Developing and serving as
instructor for online
career-development course;
- Delivering numerous
presentations on career-development topics to college
audiences; critiquing the resumes and cover letters of countless
college students on a pro bono basis;
- Creating successful college
internship program within state-government communications office.
Teaching
Taught up to three sections (90+ students) of Business Communication
during regular semesters. (See sample
syllabus).
Brought new life to Business Communication course by:
- Earning
highest teaching evaluations among
non-tenure-track instructors;
- Developing new,
writing-intensive career-development approach to course;
- Integrating state-of-the-art
technology into curriculum;
- Writing two of the textbooks
and a coursepack used in the course;
- Assisting students with
career-development issues.
University
Admissions
Targeted specific markets for recruitment while serving as Special
Assistant to the Provost for Admissions Projects and Special Assistant
to the Dean for Enrollment Management. Brought
virtually all university constituencies into recruiting process by:
- Drafting
articulation agreements between undergraduate campus and law school;
- Developing publications,
direct-mail correspondence, and multimedia presentations, such as
CD-ROMs;
- Launching unique program for
students undecided about their majors;
- Spearheading unprecedented
effort to encourage alumni, faculty, staff, deans, parent, and church
constituencies, to participate in recruiting process;
- Serving as liaison among
Admissions Office, deans, faculty, staff, and alumni;
- Participating actively on
Enrollment Management Committee;
- Conducting focus groups and
market studies of various target markets and
producing publications directed at recruiting these groups;
- Organizing staff, students,
faculty, and alumni to conduct telemarketing efforts to prospective
students.
Accreditation
Served as writer/editor to produce vital documentation required for
university business-school accreditation. Contributed to the success of
the accreditation effort by:
- Writing
two accreditation action plans that
won high praise and enabled the business school to proceed from
precandidacy to candidacy;
- Developing two detailed
accreditation self-evaluation reports that documented how the business
school met accreditation standards and which served as basis for
accreditation site visits, enabling all eligible programs to be
accredited in record time.
Communications
Played key role on communications team of state Commissioner of
Education, a member of the now-defunct state Board of Regents, who
oversaw the State University System of Florida. Advanced the
Commissioner's agenda by:
- Writing
dynamic, well-received, award-winning speeches given by Commissioner to
numerous, varied public constituencies;
- Orchestrating press
conferences, arranging press coverage, and writing press
statements;
- Achieving excellent track
record in writing and placing press releases;
- Writing and editing articles
and publications to promote Commissioner's initiatives, including a
quarterly newsletter on Florida's public higher-education system.
Successfully
promoted a university art gallery and the university itself using
innovative marketing techniques. Contributed to gallery's/university's
community-relations success by:
- Producing
and writing eye-catching printed
pieces: award-winning newsletter, annual reports, and brochures;
- Creating effective database
and launching direct-mail campaign to inform the community of
art-gallery programs;
- Organizing special events to
promote services, lectures, exhibitions, and
demonstrations, as well as generate positive feelings about gallery
within the community; preparing gallery exhibition openings;
- Launching effective program of
regular press releases and photos; establishing excellent media
contacts;
- Saving thousands of dollars by
designing printed pieces on desktop-publishing system;
- Crafting direct-mail
fundraising letters and packages to expand base of
contributors to gallery.
Conceptualized
innovative editorial format for established 100-page annual magazine
for new college students. Edited team-building book for
community-college audience. Wrote for alumni magazine and other
collegiate publications. Contributed to these publications'
success by:
- Conceiving,
assigning, and editing a story that later won a national writing
competition;
- Conceptualizing and planning
editorial formula and developing story ideas;
- Editing all copy, as well as
copyediting and proofreading.
Chronology of Experience
- Chief
Writer, Quintessential
Resumes and Cover Letters, DeLand, FL, May 2000 to
present.
- Creative Director, Quintessential
Careers Web site, and editor, QuintZine, an
online newsletter for jobseekers, DeLand, FL, March 2000 to present.
- Instructional
Designer/Instructor, Career
Kickstart Course, Quintessential Careers, DeLand, FL, March 2002 to
present.
- Lecturer (promoted from
Adjunct Instructor), Business Communication,
Stetson University, DeLand, FL, August 1996 to July 2000.
- Writer, Office of Marketing
and Communications, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, September 1999 to
July 2000.
- Freelance writer/editor,
various clients; author, 1990 to present
- Consultant/editor, Stetson's
Policies and Procedures manual, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, May
1998 to February 2001.
- Instructor, Elderhostel class,
Art and Literature of the Feminine Mystique, Stetson University,
DeLand, FL, December 1997 and January 1998.
- Special Assistant to the
Provost/Special Assistant to the Dean for Enrollment Management,
Stetson University, DeLand, FL, October 1994 to May 1996.
- Accreditation
writer/editor/consultant, School of Business Administration, Stetson
University, Deland, FL, 1995 to 1996.
- Coordinator for Gallery and
Art Department Services, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, August 1993 to
October 1994.
- Speechwriter for President of
National Association of Social Workers and pro bono statewide
Coordinator of Public Relations for American Association of University
Women/Florida, 1990 to 1995.
- Speechwriter/Deputy Press
Secretary, Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee,
FL, 1989 to 1992.
- Director of Public
Information, Planned Parenthood, Morristown, NJ, 1988
to 1989.
- Executive editor, Worrall
Publications, publishers of 10 weekly newspapers in Essex County, NJ,
1986 to 1987.
- City editor, The News of
Paterson, NJ, 1985 to 1986.
Major Publications ~ See complete publications
list
-
Author, A Foot in the
Door, Spring 2000, Ten Speed Press
- Author, Dynamic Cover Letters,
1990; second edition, March 1995; third edition, April 2001; Ten Speed
Press
- Author, Dynamic Cover
Letters for New Graduates, 1998, Ten Speed Press
- Co-author, Write Your Way to
a Higher
GPA, 1997, Ten Speed Press
Freelance
Clients
- Various
career-related Web sites ~ See publications
list
- Stetson University
- Daytona Beach News Journal
- Rutgers University News Service
- Cobb
Cole & Bell (law firm)
- Florida Council on Aging
- Institute for Educational
Leadership
- William Gladden Foundation
- Betty Castor Re-election
campaign
- Florida Department of
Education, Office of Business/Citizen Partnerships
- Business and Education
Coalition for Technology and Change
- American Association of
Community Colleges
- International Guild of
Professional Consultants
Civic,
University, and Professional Affiliations
- Advisory
Board Member, Certified
Electronic Career Coach Program, January 2002 to present
- Expert Panelist, Ask
the Experts, CollegeRecruiter.com Newsletter, May 2001 to present
- Member, Volusia County
Commission on the Status of Women, 1995 to 1999
- President, Stetson University
Friends of Art, 1994 to 1997
Education
Ph.D. in Organizational
Communications, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH,
expected 2005
Bachelor of Arts
in Humanities, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
Area of concentration: Communications.
Attended Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL;
- Won
Kingsbury Award, a full scholarship judged on writing portfolio.
- Appointed to FSU President's
Commission on the Status of Women.
Attended University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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