Orville Pierson

Current

• Author at Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job
• Author at The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search
• SVP Corporate Director of Program Design and Service Delivery at Lee Hecht Harrison

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Past

• Sr. Principal at King Chapman Broussard, King Chapman Broussard & Gallagher
• Director of Program Development and Training at Mainstream Access Inc

Education

• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
• Yale University
• Pennsbury High School

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Recommended

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Connections

479 connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• My Website

Orville Pierson’s Summary

Orville Pierson is the author of The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search (McGraw-Hill) and Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job (Career Press).

He is also Senior Vice President, Corporate Director of Program Design and Service Delivery for Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a $200 million career services company with 240 offices worldwide. LHH is wholly owned by Adecco SA, a global employment services firm with 5800 offices in 68 countries.

Orville creates books, Websites and videos to teach career management and job search to LHH’s clients, who number up to 100,000 per year. He also designs training materials for LHH’s staff of 3,000, and trains career consultants.

With LHH since 1992, he is the sole or principal author of dozens of LHH publications, including:

-- Executive Directions: Creating Options in Life and Work, a career management book for senior executives.

-- Managing Your Search Project, a comprehensive job search guide for people in the $40,000 to $100,000 income bracket.

-- The Road to Entrepreneurship, a guidebook for first-time entrepreneurs.

-- What’s Next? A Road Map for Exploring the Rest of Your Life, a guidebook for the Baby Boomers of creating better life balance in their so-called “retirement” years, whether they choose to work or not.

Prior to joining LHH, Orville created the ground-breaking job search assistance methodology called Job Search Work Teams. Earlier, he worked for a number of other career services firms.

In addition to his position at LHH, Orville does volunteer work with not-for-profit organizations. He has been in the career services field since 1977 as a program and process designer, author, speaker and facilitator as well as consultant and career coach to hundreds of private clients. His education includes a 1965 BA from Yale University and certification in psychological instruments for career assessment.

Orville Pierson’s Specialties:

Program, process and product design in career services. All aspects of job search assistance. Self-employment as a career choice. Authorship and writing. Editing and in-house publishing. Instructional design. Website and eLearning content. Training career coaches and consultants. Wholistic and strategic thinking, including conceptualizing, analyzing, synthesizing and envisioning. Group process facilitation. Public speaking.

Orville Pierson’s Experience

• Author

  Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Book release is February

• Author

  The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Appearances, interviews, projects and talks:
  
  Media
  
  Job hunting expert for ABC News Primetime
  NPR radio, network TV, Charlotte NC
  CBS TV, Rochester NY
  BostonWorks.com
  Rick Gillis Employment Radio
  Cleveland Plain Dealer
  Cincinnati, The Enquirer
  For Me magazine
  Toronto Metro
  Sheryl Silver, LA Times syndicated column
  
  
  Talks for Executives
  
  Executive Networking Group, Chicago
  Also, Irvine, Hartford, Boston
  
  
  Colleges & Universities
  
  DePaul U., keynote, Career Week
  Mount Holyoke College
  College career counselors, Purdue U.
  Quinnipiac U., alumni events
  College career counselors, CT
  U. Mass, SHRM
  
  
  Business Schools, Mgmt. Programs
  
  Harvard B-School, Boston alumni
  UNH B-School alumni
  Duke U., Masters of Engineering Mgmt
  
  
  Churches, Community Groups, Non-Profits
  
  Between Jobs Ministry, Houston
  Community jobs group, Rochester
  Women’s support services, Phoenix
  AbilityLink Expo, Chicago
  Career Conference, Apostolic Church of God, Chicago

• SVP Corporate Director of Program Design and Service Delivery

  Lee Hecht Harrison

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  July 1992 — Present (17 years 5 months)

• Sr. Principal

  King Chapman Broussard, King Chapman Broussard & Gallagher

  (Management Consulting industry)

  1989 — 1992 (3 years )

• Director of Program Development and Training

  Mainstream Access Inc

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  1983 — 1989 (6 years )

Orville Pierson’s Education

• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

  Sculpture 1965 — 1968

• Yale University

  B.A. , Comparative Religions , 1961 — 1965

• Pennsbury High School

  1961

Additional Information

Orville Pierson’s Websites:

• My Website

Orville Pierson’s Interests:

Career consulting, job search assistance, writing, program and process design, group process facilitation, sculpture, modern art, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and related Jungian Typology, Strong Interest Inventory, Anusara yoga, Siddha yoga, spiritual development.

Orville Pierson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch