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- President & Certified Professional Resume Writer at Résu-Card® (Sole Proprietorship)
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- Marketing Manager, Open Source Conference at University of Toronto — Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
- Employee at Diverse Organizations
- Education
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- University of Regina
- York University (1)
- York University (2)
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- McMaster University
- Syracuse University
- William Nottingham High School, Syracuse NY
- Hurlbut W. Smith Jr. High School, Syracuse NY
- Pebble Hill School (Private), Syracuse NY
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Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Summary
UPDATE: If you are waiting for me to reply to you or rate responses to a question you answered, please forgive the delay. My landlord is selling the house where I live. I am preparing to move to Scarborough, in Toronto, where I recently acquired a corporate, SEO writing assignment. (My supervisor has indicated that he would like me to continue long term, although this is not yet official. My work as a resume writer will also continue.) All my spare time will be devoted to the move until it is complete.
Joined Jan. 25, 2007 • Profile updated Jun. 20, 2008
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I'm not going to waste this valuable space writing about my experience. I know people with 50 years' experience, none of it having the slightest value. As for achievements, most providers have them; and within each industry, most achievements resemble each other.
My focus is on how I have distinguished myself from my colleagues and competitors. I did this as a Certified Professional Resume Writer by:
• Publishing significantly both inside and outside my field
• Inventing the folded Business-Card Resume
• Being 1st in the world to create websites on the fly
• Offering clients a FREE website with most resume packages
• Hosting these sites FREE under a short URL
• Building attractive sites that are readable within 4 seconds on a slow modem
• Creating the world's largest web collection of samples by a certified resume writer, with over 80 documents
• Letting people get detailed info by calling A Real Live Person Twenty-Four Hours Seven Days®
• Successfully prosecuting applications for six trade-mark registrations — one in US — without hiring a trade-mark agent
In so doing, I established and maintained relationships with people from an extremely wide range of ethnocultural backgrounds. This diversity is reflected in my LI network.
NOTE: Entire profile is Copyright © by Howard Earle Halpern, 2007-2008
Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Specialties:
• Writing resumes, cover letters, follow-up letters
• Ghost-writing letters of reference
• Designing and writing Business-Card Resumes
• Job-acquisition and career counselling
• Interview coaching
• Biographies, flyers, advertisements, brochures
• Public and media relations • Technical writing
• Website development • Search engine optimization
Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Experience
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President & Certified Professional Resume Writer
Résu-Card® (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)
July 1989 — Present (19 years 4 months)
Established 1989 • Registered 1990
When I entered the workforce in 1966, the resume writing industry was in its infancy. No one cited achievements. Resumes were replete with boring job descriptions. Baby boomers were maturing. Competition was fierce. I knew instinctively I had to distinguish myself.
From 1966 to 1989 I sold my services to employers in 30 successful interviews, two by phone. I did not learn this business by studying, but by doing. I probed employers for feedback on my resume, asked other job-seekers about their experiences, and acquired valuable knowledge in working for a personnel division in government.
In 1980, I began writing resumes for friends and noticed they consistently got hired. In 1988, one suggested resume writing as an occupation. I put my resume on a business card. Not only did employers read it, but when I called them, they remembered it—and me.
The next year, I started a business around this concept. It caught on, and I never looked back. -
Marketing Manager, Open Source Conference
University of Toronto — Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2004 — May 2004 (4 months)
Most comprehensive event of its kind worldwide. Treated open source as a social movement, integrating technical with legal, political, & business issues. Implications for health care, education, & dissemination of public knowledge.
Played key role in:
• Attracting visitors to website by improving search engine rankings: edited content to optimize site; persuaded authoritative sites to link to ours.
• Getting publicity, including favourable column in Globe and Mail, as well as television coverage: wrote & submitted media releases; followed up with media personnel.
For media release, interviewed Bob Young, CEO of Lulu.com, owner of Hamilton Tiger-Cats, co-founder of world's most successful alternative software company Red Hat, & keynote speaker at conference.
Edited website home page.
Commended for contribution toward success of event by Conference Chair (Prof. of Computer Science; Founder & Chief Scientist, KMDI; Bell Chair in Human-Computer Interaction). -
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Diverse Organizations
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Human Resources industry)
January 1966 — September 1989 (23 years 9 months)
Sold my services to employers in 30 successful interviews, two by phone. Demonstrated versatility by performing diverse tasks. Held positions ranging from Maintenance Person, Town of Richmond Hill, Ontario, and Orderly, Country Place Nursing Home, also in Richmond Hill, to Researcher, Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Toronto, and Writer, Financial Advisory Services Section, Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services. In addition, I gained valuable knowledge of human resources by serving as a clerk in the personnel division of the Department of Communications, Government of Canada. Details to follow.
Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Education
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University of Regina
MA, Psychology, 1971 — 1977
Thesis: A Recent History of Youth – Tracing the Development of Youth Culture: 1950-1970. Published (1) a related article in the Regina Leader-Post newspaper and (2) an article on education, with comments and rebuttal, in the Ontario Psychologist, listed in the international Psychological Abstracts. Served as Teaching Assistant to four sections of introductory psychology course.
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York University (1)
BA (Honours), Psychology, 1970 — 1971
Notwithstanding the fact that I had to wage a political battle to take my fourth-year courses ungraded (see below), I subsequently applied to York's graduate program in psychology and was accepted. However, on the advice of a York professor, I declined in favour of the University of Regina in order to broaden my academic experience.
- Activities and Societies:
- Singlehandedly ran a successful media campaign, through the student newspaper Excalibur, to take all fourth-year courses ungraded. In the end, the full Senate voted to grant my degree, despite objections from many quarters. This was the first time a York student had been awarded a degree without having received any grades in his or her final year of study.
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York University (2)
BA, Psychology, 1968 — 1970
Completed an extremely wide range of both psychology and other courses, including (•) Modes of Reasoning (logic) and (•) a poetry course with Irving Layton & about 40 other students crammed into a small room atop the Murray G. Ross humanities building. Psychology courses included those on hard-core subjects like experimentation and soft-core subjects like humanistic psychology, esp. sensitivity training.
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Wilfrid Laurier University
Studied Biology (summer) 1968 — 1968
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McMaster University
Studied Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, English Literature, and French Literature 1967 — 1968
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Syracuse University
Studied English Literature, French, Philosophy, Political Theory, Calculus, and Chemistry 1966 — 1967
- Activities and Societies:
- Played trumpet in marching band. We travelled to Boston and played during intermission at an intercollegiate football match. We had the honour of accompanying Doc Severinsen, bandleader for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
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William Nottingham High School, Syracuse NY
High School Diploma, Studies incl. English (Hons.), French, Econ., US/Wld Hist., Physics, Biology, Geometry, Trigonometry, 1964 — 1966
- Activities and Societies:
- Band
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Hurlbut W. Smith Jr. High School, Syracuse NY
8th and 9th Grades, Studies included Algebra, Geography, History, English, French, Science, Industrial Arts, 1962 — 1964
- Activities and Societies:
- Intramural Basketball, Band
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Pebble Hill School (Private), Syracuse NY
7th Grade, Studies included Algebra, Latin, French, English, Ancient History, 1961 — 1962
- Activities and Societies:
- Intramural Softball, Football, Soccer, Basketball, Wrestling
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Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Interests:
In order of importance: spirituality (esp. Yoga), ethics, self-development, psychology; search engine optimization; politics. I view the last not as ideology, but as technology for manifesting an ideology. The latter, if rooted in deep thought, will not readily change; whereas technology, if effective, will readily adapt to changing social conditions and behavioural patterns.
Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Groups:
Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches (Certified) • Career Professionals of Canada (Founding Member) • Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists
Howard Halpern MA CPRW’s Honors:
Time Magazine's Person of the Year – 2006
(Okay, this wasn't my idea. It was Doc Farmer's.
Find him at www.LinkedIn.com/in/DocFarmer)
Captain, Champion Intramural Softball Team, Pebble Hill School, Syracuse NY, 1961-1962
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