My Resume

1. Jack Mulcahy
e-mail: resumejack@gmail.com
3102 Shawnee Green 215-643-6881 (Home)
Ambler, PA 19002 610-270-3429 (Work)
Profile
PROFESSIONAL RESUME WRITER with an outstanding record of transforming customers'
resumes into high-impact marketing documents that attract the attention of hiring managers.
Combines expert interviewing, writing and design skills to develop strong personal branding
statements for sales, administrative, blue-collar, legal and white-collar job-seekers. Exceptional
editing and proofreading abilities. Superior presentation and page layout skills. Effectively
analyzes, evaluates and presents ideas. Able to conceptualize and communicate the big picture.
My customers say it best...
“Jack took my resume and within 2 days had whipped it into a much stronger professional
document. I have received several compliments on the new look and within 4 hours of posting
the revised resume I was contacted for an interview.”
Linda Naismith, Administrative and HR Professional, Seattle, WA
Employment History
Pennsylvania CareerLink, Norristown, PA
Resume Coach 2009-Present
Recruited by this State employment-assistance agency to revamp the resume-writing function,
which had formerly been highly dependent on pre-written job descriptions from Internet sites,
into a powerful tool to assist job-seekers in gaining interviews. Selected based on extensive
experience in writing for newspapers and magazines as well as the marketing of training and
other services.
 Created high-performance resumes for some 1,700 clients within 2 years.
 Increased the rate of interviews per client by some 25% over previous within 1 year.
 Empowered each client to show potential employer(s) why s/he would be the ONLY
candidate for the job by creating accomplishments-based, future-oriented resumes.
 Served as exclusive office resource on resume wording, style and approach to enhance
clients' chances of employment.
 Demonstrated various types and uses of CareerLink resumes at staff meetings, which
ensured consistency of resume communication and improved service.
 Combined interviewing and writing skills to improve clients' views of themselves and their
employability.
 Utilized active listening and open-ended questions to draw clients out on their
accomplishments.
 Received numerous letters of commendation from clients for time and care provided.
 Teamed with other staffers to maintain and enhance Montgomery County CareerLink's
LinkedIn page by contributing articles and links to relevant information about job-seeking,
and by screening prospective members for suitability.
Self-Employed
Free-Lance Writer 1973-Present
 Created short fiction for magazines and feature articles for local newspapers.
 Mentored other writers in various writers' groups, which improved their work.

2. Jack Mulcahy
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Siemens Building Technologies, Blue Bell, PA
Training Coordinator 1993-2005
 Increased training sales by marketing public training sessions to customer account base
through direct customer contact and teamwork with fellow employees.
 Grew customer training gross profits from 25% to 42% within 1 year.
 Managed annual training department budget, resulting in increased efficiency.
 Revamped, edited and wrote District newsletter, using MS Publisher, which updated
employees on latest business developments.
 Created new MS Word and Excel tools for reporting current and projected sales and trained
Account Managers in their use, which streamlined sales forecasting and reporting processes.
Wee Three Record Shops, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Free-Lance Writer, Designer 1991-1993
 Improved sales performance reporting tools for 170-store retail chain.
 Designed and edited employee training workbooks, newsletter, testing materials, graphs
and charts, using MS Word and Excel.
Asset Development Group, Willow Grove, PA
Management Consultant 1987-1991
 Created corporate newsletters, brochures and publications for instructional and promotional
purposes, using Adobe Page Maker, Corel Draw and MS Word.
Philadelphia Match (National Shared Housing Resource Center), Philadelphia, PA
Marketing Coordinator 1985-1987
 Implemented a comprehensive marketing strategy, featuring press releases, radio/TV
publicity, newspaper and magazine articles, which doubled client inquiries within 2
months.
Community Activities
 Counseled children from local housing project at summer camp (2 years).
 Chaired Steering Committee with nonprofit social group.
Education
La Salle University; BA, English.
On the Net
http://resumejack.hubpages.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackmulcahyresumewriter
http://twitter.com/#!/jackmulcahywrit