Resume books, seminars, podcasts, & other career building tools.
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Resume books, seminars, podcasts, & other career building tools. |
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RESUME REBELSJeanne Pappas Simon Jeanne is a co-writer of Your Resume Sucks! and is president of YourResumeSucks.biz. Her web site offers career-enhancing books, DVDs, and CDs; plus free stuff to download like forms, budgets and podcasts. Her more creative endeavors have been successful as well. The Gen X network she co-developed and co-wrote for Turner Broadcasting was approved by Scott Sassa. She won two international awards for The Winkles, an animated short she created and wrote for preschoolers. She also co-wrote and co-developed the award-winning animated shorts Suburban Cinderella and Timmy’s Lessons in Nature. Timmy’s Lessons In Nature won the Grand Prize in Nicktoons inaugural animation festival. Her lecture, The Animator’s Guide to Face Reading, was met with enthusiasm at the 2006 Animex Festival in Teesside Valley, UK. Jeanne was also named one of the Top 40 Under 40 business people in Central Florida for her achievements in business and her contributions to the community. Mark Simon Mark is a business man with a talent for the arts. He has been an award-winning author, illustrator, film and TV art director, special effects designer, magazine publisher, business owner, animator, storyboard artist, lecturer, producer and director. Mark has written three top-selling entertainment industry books, Facial Expressions, Producing Independent 2D Character Animation and Storyboards: Motion In Art, Editions 1,2 & 3 and writes monthly business articles for Animation Magazine and AWN.com as well as articles for other periodicals. One of his companies, Animatics & Storyboards, Inc., is the largest storyboard house in the Southern United States, and his other company A&S Animation, Inc. has won over 40 international awards. He has written, directed and produced award-winning animations such as Timmy’s Lessons In Nature, Suburban Cinderella, and A Message From God. His design and illustration work have been seen in Disney’s The Waterboy, Steven Spielberg/NBC’s seaQuest DSV, many Nickelodeon series, and numerous comedy and science fiction series and feature films. He has over 20 years of business experience of both getting hired from his resume and hiring others from their resumes on over 2,500 productions. In 1999 he was voted one of the top 40 business people under 40 in Central Florida. Mark has also taught at the University of Central Florida and currently teaches at the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School (DAVE School) located at Universal Studios, Florida. His popular lectures on marketing, storyboarding, and animation take him around the world Your Resume Sucks! is based on Mark’s successful series of lectures, The 3 Keys to a Successful Resume, and his series of business articles for BizJournals, the largest publisher of business newspapers in the country. His articles have also appeared in Animation Magazine under the banner of Mind Your Business. Mark’s books may be found online at www.MarkSimonBooks.com. Dr. James E. M. Irvine, D.M. Dr. Jim Irvine currently works for Nissan North America and has designed many of the internal and external selection systems currently in use. He has a thorough understanding of resumes and the selection process. Last year alone, he was involved in filling hundreds of positions, reviewing thousands of resumes, and counseling employees on how to get promoted. As a result, he knows which resumes gets noticed and which ones get ignored. Likewise, Jim is responsible for designing and delivering many training programs focused on the selection, leadership, and employee motivation. Training classes include: Your Resume: The key to getting noticed; Conducting Behavioral Interviews: Differentiating Between Superior and Average Performers; Situational Interviewing: Diagnosing Competence & Commitment; Nailing the Interview: Secrets of the Behavioral Interview; How to Get the Promotion You've Always Wanted: Strategies for Networking, resumes, interviewing; Leveraging Your Strengths: 'Selling' your Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities; SHIFT_Performance: Leading the Performance Challenge; The One Minute Motivator: Motivation, Performance, and Profitability; Flack Catching: Dealing with Customer complaints; Mentoring and Coaching Your Employees: Getting Your Employees that Next Promotion; Coaching for Customer Loyalty; and Utilizing Employee Teams to Drive Change. Before working for Nissan, Jim worked as a HR/Management consultant with clients such as Atmos Energy, Citizens Telecom, G.E. Aircraft, Lennox, Memorex-Telex, Midas, SeaLand/CSX Lines, Texas Instruments, TransAmerica, Trinity Industries, etc. Jim holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business and Psychology and Doctorate of Management in Organizational Leadership (ABD). For the last 20 years - as a researcher, writer, speaker, and consultant – Jim has been sharing the message that an organization's people are the primary determiner of organizational success. As a result, his research has focused on identifying the key elements that differentiate average performers from superior performers and developing selection and development systems based on those differentiating elements.
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Jeanne Pappas Simon
Mark Simon
Dr. James E. M. Irvine, D.M.
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