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Empowering Experienced Professionals for Successful Career Transitions

Cover Letters and Resumes that Score the Interview! with KATHERINE METRES

  • Mon, January 13, 2014
  • 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • 40Plus Conference Room***(Doors open at 9:30 for networking and the program starts promptly at 10:00.)

Directions to 40 Plus

Monday Morning Speaker Presentation: KATHERINE METRES

Cover Letters and Resumes that Score the Interview. 

With KATHERINE METRES, the president Your Edge for Success (YES) LLC.
 
After attending this presentation, you'll begin to be able to do the following:
     
• Understand what makes employers put you in the 'interview,' 'don't interview,' or 'maybe interview' pile

• Find out how most candidates waste the cover letter opportunity and how to use it instead to connect the dots

• Learn how to take your resume from good to an answer to the employer's prayer

 

Do you fit into one of these categories or have other questions about using your cover letters and resume to get more interviews?

"Everyone says my resume looks great, but I'm not getting enough interviews."

"I want to make an industry change, and I'm not sure how to position my experience."

"I'm willing to take a pay and responsibility cut for better job security and time with my family, but I seem overqualified, and no one will interview me."

"I want to differentiate myself from all the other competent candidates, and I'm not sure how to do that in the limited time HR people spend reading my resume."
      

Please join us for our next career development session with KATHERINE METRES who will lead an interactive workshop on how to sell your skills to an employer who can provide you an ideal career opportunity.

Katherine will show real-life examples of applications she received when she was hiring for various positions, and participants will have the chance to consider them from the employer's point of view:  What works in these documents?  What doesn't work?  Would you interview this candidate? 

Bring a job description for an open position, draft cover letter, and resume, and you may have the opportunity to get Katherine's and the group's feedback.

Katherine will be joined by Certified Professional Resume Writer GREG FAHERTY, who will participate via speaker phone.



About The Speaker

KATHERINE METRES

President
Your Edge for Success (YES) LLC

Katherine Metres is the president of her company, Your Edge for Success (YES) LLC, which provides award-winning writing services to make you shine. She holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, has published 20 articles, and is the co-author of two books. 

Katherine served as a U.S. diplomat in Africa and Italy and worked as a human rights professional in the Middle East, where she won $3M for grant projects she developed and wrote. She has also won awards for her journalism, academic writing, and original oratory.

After developing a very effective resume and cover letter writing process for her own career, Katherine began sharing this skill with clients. (She wishes she could share it with job applicants, who often frustrate her by putting their worst foot forward!) Katherine works together with a Certified Professional Resume Writer, Greg Faherty, who has helped over 8000 people get a better job. As a team, they draft client documents through a synergistic collaboration between the client, Greg as writer, and Katherine as editor.

Katherine moved to the area a year ago from Chicago. She currently resides in the Cathedral Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
       

Contact The Speaker

Katherine Metres President
Your Edge for Success (YES), LLC
yeswriting.com


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Call 202-740-3032 today to find out how our writing services can help you meet your goals.

Your Edge for Success ... Award-winning writing services to make you shine -- YES!

Attire is business casual, recruiters are often present, so we ask all Monday Speaker attendees to contribute to the professional standards and objectives of this important networking meeting.

Doors open at 9:30 for networking and the program starts promptly at 10:00.

40Plus of Greater Washington
1718 P Street, NW, Suite T2
Washington, DC 20036


  Dupont Circle Metro Station (Red Line) South Exit to 40Plus Office.

  1. Leave the Dupont Circle Metro Station by the 19th Street SOUTH exit.
  2. At the top of the escalator (street level), turn 180 degrees, and walk a short distance towards Dupont Circle.
  3. Turn right and walk counter-clockwise around the outside of the Circle, past Connecticut and Massachusetts Avenues.
  4. At P Street, turn right . Proceed on P Street past 18th Street.
  5. 40Plus is near the end of the block on the right side, at 1718 P Street, in the Webster House apartment building.
  6. See below for ONCE YOU ARE AT THE BUILDING the 40Plus office is in the basement/one flight down on "level 'T' " You can't miss it.

Directions to 40Plus

40Plus of Greater Washington
Empowering Experienced Professionals
 for Successful Career Transitions