Author Credentials

Hi, I'm Regina Pontow, the author of this site and the materials marketed here.

My background includes writing over 15,000 resumes for job seekers in the $20,000 to $200,000 plus salary range. I've written ten resume books and an instructor transparency set; and authored two additional resume websites. Cumulatively, our sites attract nearly 1 million visitors each month.

My sister sites have been ranked in the Top 10 Employment Sites by Hitbox.com and ranked 2nd by Recommend-It.com.

We've won Best of the Web and Diamond Excellence Web Awards based on the content and design of our sites. Plus -- we've been reviewed and listed in the career channels of major sites such as Yahoo!, Alta Vista, Hot Bot and Infoseek.

You'll learn first hand the significant successes job seekers have had in using my materials by clicking on Job Seeker Successes in the left column. To hear what Career Professionals such as Workforce Training and Academic Directors, University Professors, Deans, VP's of College Operations, Career Counselors and College Instructors who use my materials have to say about them - click on What Professionals Say in the left column.

Now a little about my resume writing experience! In 1985, I started a resume writing business and within 2 years had written over 1,500 resumes. Starting with my very first resume, clients began reporting that they were getting double and triple their interview rates with some reporting that they had landed an interview for every resume they sent out. I attributed this success to my love and study of advertising coupled with a degree in marketing. Plus my keen awareness of the self doubt many job seekers feel when they begin marketing themselves and looking for a job -- something almost all of us hate! I found that at least half of my time with clients (usually 2-3 hours with each person) was spent as a motivational coach - helping them identify and believe in their top skills!

Feeling I needed experience in interviewing and hiring personnel, I then spent the next three years doing this for Dunhill Personnel Systems and Express Personnel. Then I opened and managed my own personnel agency. During this time I interviewed thousands of applicants and placed hundreds of people in jobs with major Northwest employers. However, I missed working with people and coaching them. So I changed careers and became a Career Development Instructor with a leading business college.

In 1994 I finally finished my first book, Proven Resumes and Confidence Builders. I then went to work as a Job Placement Specialist for the University of Washington, Bothell. My presentations on resume writing often resulted in comments like, "Gee, this is the best presentation I've every seen!" In less than 4 years my instructor materials had been sold to over 60 colleges and more than 40 Employment Security and Worker Assistance programs. I have given hundreds of presentations for organizations such as Boeing Re-Employment Center, Worker Assistance Programs, United Parcel Service - HR Department in Oregon, Northwest Educational Conferences, The City of Seattle and many, many University and College Career Events. Based on the success ESD offices were experiencing in my state, I was recommended by a Regional Administrator to the Governor's Board on Employment Issues.

Being hailed a Master Trainer by college instructors and career development professionals, I soon became busy enough that I focused all of my time giving presentations. Then in 1996 I began writing the Career-Specific Booklets offered in this site. Having given hundreds of resume writing seminars I had learned first-hand what excited and motivated job seekers as they watched my presentation. Armed with this information I wrote Proven Resumes: Strategies That Have Increased Salaries and Changed Lives! and packed it to the brim with all the information I knew that job seekers wanted the most and that I had seen land the most interviews and highest salary offers! It received immediate acceptance and even more success stories came rolling in from job seekers who have purchased it!

All in all, I estimate that about a million people have been taught many of my strategies by the instructors and worker assistance programs who use my materials along with the visitors who come to my sites! I've spent well over 12,000 hours working directly with job seekers writing their resumes.

So that's my background. By integrating my love of marketing and advertising and blending it with confidence building strategies the Proven Resumes System really has taken on a life and success of it's own. If you go through our Mini Resume Workshop and read the descriptions of my books, you'll see that my materials are far different than other resume books.

I encourage you to buy my materials because they really do have a strong history of success - which is documented by the job seeker success stories and endorsements from career professionals who use my materials. They say much more than I can say in pitching my materials to you!! Good luck in your job search!

Sincerely,
Regina

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