Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Creative Director of Quintessential Careers
Katharine (Kathy) Hansen, Ph.D., creative director of Quintessential Careers, is an author and instructor,
in addition to being a career expert. Her books include Dynamic
Cover Letters (more than 100,000 copies sold), Write Your Way to a Higher GPA,
and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Study Skills,
written with Dr. Randall S. Hansen, as well as
Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates
(11,000+ copies sold), and
A Foot in the Door: Networking
Your Way into the Hidden Job Market, published by Ten Speed Press,
and Top Notch Executive Resumes: Creating Flawless Resumes for Managers, Executives, and CEOs (Career Press)
and Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to get a Job and Propel Your Career (JIST Publishing, April 2009).
Katharine has completed a rigorous credentialing process to become a Master Resume Writer, as approved by the
Career Management Alliance.
The Master Resume Writer designation places Hansen in an elite group of career practitioners who are
committed to professionalism and dedicated to continuous learning.
Hansen was only the 9th Master Resume Writer worldwide and is one of an exclusive group of career
professionals to hold both of the Alliance's Credentialed Career Manager and Master Resume Writer
designations.
In more than six years as a college professor, Katharine taught the writing of resumes and cover letters
and critiqued the job-search correspondence of countless college students. Katharine also is editor
of QuintZine,
a free career and job-hunting newsletter filled with timely and topical tips for springboarding careers.
She is a member of the Career Management Alliance and serves on its executive board.
Katharine holds a doctoral degree in organizational behavior from
Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH.
Katharine was writer-editor at numerous newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations, and she served
as speechwriter for the first woman elected to the Florida Cabinet. Katharine, who earned her bachelor of
arts degree in humanities from Stetson University, lives in DeLand, FL, with her writing partner, Randall,
and children, Mary and John. See also her
personal web site
and teaching portfolio.
Katharine (Kathy) Hansen, Ph.D., creative director of Quintessential Careers, is an author and instructor,
in addition to being a career expert. Her books include 
Katharine has completed a rigorous credentialing process to become a Master Resume Writer, as approved by the
Hansen was only the 9th Master Resume Writer worldwide and is one of an exclusive group of career
professionals to hold both of the Alliance's Credentialed Career Manager and Master Resume Writer
designations.
