About Dr. Randall Hansen, Career Coach

Dr. Hansen is an expert career coach, with two decades of experience helping all types of people -- teens, college students and grads, career changers, and senior executives -- with a variety of college, career, and job-search issues. He truly believes in his mission to make a difference in people's lives, and not a day goes by where he is not coaching and helping some job-seeker work through issues that can help clear hurdles or solve problems.

Dr. Hansen is the Career Doctor, permanently associated with Quintessential Careers, where he serves as Webmaster of the entire Quintessential Careers network of career sites and as publisher Quintessential Careers Press, which publishes career-related e-books and the exciting and informative biweekly career and job-hunting e-zine, QuintZine.

He is a published career expert, and has been for the last 15 years. And he has been an employer and consultant with hiring/firing decisions for the past 20 years.

He has also earned the credential of Certified Electronic Career Coach (CEEC), issued by the Professional Resume Writing and Research Association, which prepares career management professionals to successfully perform in dynamic and technologically advanced situations. Having completed the CECC Program, Dr. Hansen is qualified to effectively coach clients and students to:

• Develop targeted online job searches through online career-exploration exercises;
• Create and market electronic resumes and Web-based career portfolios (see Dr. Hansen's Web portfolio);
• Prepare for interviews using both synchronous and asynchronous online communications tools.

He and Katharine Hansen cowrote the very successful job-hunting book, Dynamic Cover Letters, published by Ten Speed Press -- and now in its THIRD edition. You can order copies from Amazon of this cover letter bible. His latest book is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Choosing a College Major, which is also available on Amazon as well as in your local bookstores and libraries. He is also author of many (200) college, job-search, career-related magazine, journal and e-zine articles.

Finally, Dr. Hansen has been an employer and has firsthand experience in the hiring process. He also stays active in the field by reading magazine and journal articles and by talking with employers and recruiters on a regular basis. He is a member of the Career Management Alliance.

To see the total picture of Dr. Hansen's body of work and expertise, check out his Career Portfolio.

Learn more about Dr. Hansen by visiting The 4 P's of Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.

Have a question? Send Dr. Hansen an email: randall(at)quintcareers.com.