Katharine Hansen 1250 Valley View Lane, DeLand, FL 32720-2364 386/740-8872 * 386/734-1747 e-mail: mailto:khansen@stetson.edu mailto:kathy@quintcareers.com ========================================================================== RESUME WRITER * CAREER-DEVELOPMENT EXPERT * ONLINE CAREER COACH * 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 ============== ~ Credentialed Career Master, Career Masters Institute, February 2003 ~ Certified Electronic Career Coach, Professional Resume Writers and Research Association, certification July 2003 ========================================================= 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 http://www.quintcareers.com/online_courses/kickstart_career_course.html; ~ 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 at http://www.stetson.edu/~khansen/bn301/). 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, 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 http://www.quintcareers.com/online_courses/kickstart_career_course.html, 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 ================== ~ Author, _A Foot in the Door_ (http://www.quintcareers.com/foot_in_the_door.html), Spring 2000, Ten Speed Press ~ Author, _Dynamic Cover Letters_ (http://www.quintcareers.com/dcl.html), 1990; second edition, March 1995; third edition, April 2001; Ten Speed Press ~ Author, _Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates_ (http://www.quintcareers.com/dcl_for_grads.html), 1998, Ten Speed Press ~ Co-author, _Write Your Way to a Higher GPA_ (http://www.quintcareers.com/writing/gpa.html),1997, Ten Speed Press See complete publications list at http://www.quintcareers.com/KHansen_CV.html#Publications ================= FREELANCE CLIENTS ================= ~ Various career-related Web sites (See publications list at http://www.quintcareers.com/KHansen_CV.html#Publications) ~ 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. ~ Selected as student commencement speaker. ~ Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. 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 ~ Won President's award for outstanding contribution to the university.