Susan Guarneri

Susan Guarneri is known by her professional colleagues and clients as the “Career Assessment Goddess” – a National Certified Career Counselor and expert in using branding and career assessments to dispel career confusion and reveal exciting career and business choices.

She is the only National Certified Career Counselor in the world with certifications as a personal branding strategist, career management coach, distance career counselor, and expert resume writer. Susan’s multiple credentials represent the “cream-of-the-crop” for the careers industry.

She has launched a new career assessment training program, “Master the Maze of Career Assessments”, geared to career coaches, human resources professionals, and employment specialists who would like to learn to use assessments as a tool in career management and career enhancement. Providing up-to-date assessments knowledge, hands-on techniques and role-playing practice, and marketing know-how this 15-module teleseminar program “fills the gap” in practical assessments training.

Susan’s career assessment program for individuals and entrepreneurs, LEAP (Leverage Enhanced Assessment Power), is based on 20 years of successful career counseling, coaching and consulting experience. It generates in-depth information for personal branding, career or business focus, self-marketing, and strategic action planning to attain goals.

Key principles of Susan’s LEAP program include:

Career satisfaction is attainable, but has to begin with inner exploration.

Identifying and clarifying the elements that make you unique gives you brand leverage. It allows you to know what makes you unique (for brand leverage), what you’re going after (and why), AND how to best reach that target market.

Whether you are a careerist or a small business owner, you absolutely need to be clear about your brand and assessments can provide crucial assistance in that clarifying process.

The attributes, qualities and values you are identified with represent your brand, whether you know it or not.

Personal branding allows you to uncover your unique brand, communicate it unerringly to others, and build your brand cachet. It enables you to stand out from the crowded brand arena.

Susan's career has also encompassed corporate outplacement, team building, and management development training for Fortune 500 companies, colleges, government agencies, and non-profit agencies such as:

General Motors, AT&T Engineering Division, Pharmacopeia, Inc., Urban Schools Service Corps, Lucent Technology, New Jersey Division of Women, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Md. Dept. of Human Resources

Utilizing assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, FIRO-B, and the Spectrum CPI Coaching Report for Leaders, Susan has assisted client organizations with Team Building, Coaching Skills for Managers, Management Development, and Improved Communications, as well as with affordable outplacement services.

Her published work includes articles in The Princeton Business Journal, careerjournal.com, the PRWRA newsletter and blog, and the National Résumé Writers Association newsletter.

Susan’s cutting-edge résumés, cover letters and articles have been featured in 23 books such as The Gallery of Best Cover Letters, Expert Résumés for Computer and Web Jobs, 101 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Career, Professional Resumes for Accounting, Tax, Finance, and Law, and Expert Résumés for Teachers and Educators.

Chosen as a guest expert interviewee by Parachute.com (How to Create a Resume for the JobTalk series) and by New Jersey News (video series on career, job search and resume topics),

Susan has delivered many public presentations to corporations, professional and trade associations, and non-profits.

She has taught career development, job search and résumé classes at The Princeton Adult School and The Princeton Job Club, as well as various community adult education classes, and has served as adjunct faculty at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey.

Her private practice is now located in the scenic northwoods of Wisconsin where she enjoys camping, fishing, cross-country skiing, photography, hiking, and communing with nature…along with partnering with her clients for their career and business success.