Risa Kahn
Founder / Lead Consultant

RESUME AND CAREER CONSULTING SERVICES

With 20+ years expertise in talent recruiting, our approach offers customized job search and career guidance to prepare you for today’s highly competitive market, where differentiation is vital for your ongoing success! Engaging in the process of intentional career assessment and development of customized resumes to target specific opportunities are proven to maximize your chances of getting through the multi-layer job applicant screening process. Resumes need to be expertly crafted to pass applicant tracking software criteria, HR reviews, and then must ultimately engage hiring managers, typically dedicating no more than two minutes for initial resume review.

OUR COLLABORATIVE PROCESS

  • Initial Step - A Free 15-minute call is scheduled to meet you. Time is taken to learn about your career challenges, career objectives, and to identify next step target positions. You will then send me your existing resume and some samples of actual job openings that you wish to target. A Resume Consult phone session time is confirmed.

  • Review of your existing resume and initial recommendations for your revised resume will be prepared before our Consult session. Sample resumes for your area of expertise will be prepared to share as an initial guide for our 60-minute session.

  • 60-minute phone session to “Listen and Learn” about your career journey, areas of expertise and target positions.

  • You will take notes provided during our meeting and update your resume with recommendations discussed. Upon completion of this first draft, you will be 85% done with your resume.

  • We will correspond back and forth to complete your final draft and your final resume can be ready to submit for job openings within 1-2 days from our original meeting.

  • Consult fees start at $375 with packages customized to your specific needs.

OUR SERVICES

  • Identify intentional strategic plan to steer your career in the desired direction as you prepare for a new job search or identify an improved strategy for an ongoing search.

  • 60-minute session and follow-up to be completed within 1-2 days. Collaborative process to create revise existing content and create a format that is the best possible marketing tool for targeted opportunities. Goal oriented techniques implemented to increase probability of acceptance by Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and swiftly gain the attention of hiring contacts.

  • 1. Changing careers and steps you need to take to reach your goals
    2. Staying at your company and preparing to be promoted
    3. Strategies for salary reviews and raise negotiations
    4. Conflict resolution tools – managers, peers, and other professional relationships

  • Ensure alignment with resume and provide Introduction and Key Expertise to optimize searchability.

  • Identify interview challenges/pitfalls and practice clear, concise responses, including relevant verbiage for size of company, work experience examples and accomplishments.

    1. Video interviews
    2. In person interviews
    3. Panel interviews
    4. Interviews requiring presentations

  • CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

    “Risa Kahn is someone you want on your support team! She's a talented career advisor, recruiter, and resume consultant who can significantly impact your job search. Her experience in the technology and startup industries and her genuine care for her clients' success make her an invaluable resource, especially for experienced professionals or those looking to make a career pivot. Risa takes a collaborative, personalized, and consultative approach to help you package your unique skills and value, ensuring that your tailored resume maximizes your chances of landing your desired roles.” - Marketing & Brand Engagement Leader | HealthTech Startup & Fortune 500 Innovator

  • CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

    “A colleague recommended Risa to me when I was recently laid off. I did not feel I was best representing my skills and years of experience enough. Aside from being one of the most pleasant people to work with, Risa worked with me to create an improved version of my resume that best markets my talents and next step career goals. We worked together in a partnership to make sure I included what I was looking for in a position as well as how I could benefit the organizations I was interested in. Definitely worth the advice and guidance. I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking their next role.” - Global Product Manager - Web Accessibility Testing software solutions

  • CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

    “Highly recommend Risa Kahn for help with resumes! She is efficient and extraordinarily knowledgeable. I appreciate her expertise in what recruiters are looking for in a resume and how to translate past experiences into present skills. Thank-you!” - Digital Strategy Consultant for Tech Startups and Marketing Agencies

  • CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

    “I was just getting ready to jump into the job market, but was dreading updating my resume which hadn’t been updated in years (and never professionally reviewed). When I saw that Risa was providing resume services, it was just the answer I needed. I had worked with her early in my career and remembered how pleasant and fruitful that experience was, so I immediately reached out and we got to work. Her feedback was crisp, thoughtful and made all the sense. From start to finish, Risa simply makes you feel like you’re going to be well taken care, and her expertise in the recruiting/resume space is unmatched. After finalizing my resume following her guidance, I landed two very competitive job offers within a surprisingly short period of time. I can’t thank her enough.” - Strategic Project Director collaborating with Founder/C-suite of money management firms

  • CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

    “I lost my job of 9 years after the devastating affects of COVID on the hospitality industry. With Risa’s services, I was able to land a job in San Diego at a healthcare software startup, Surglogs. Her guidance in helping to focus my resume and tailor it to my target companies was invaluable. I was worried my experience wouldn’t translate from one industry to another without having to start over at the bottom, but with Risa’s help I got a great position and was able to get back to work!” - Customer Success Director-Translated transferrable skills from hospitality industry to healthcare software startup.

  • CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

    “Summarizing decades of specialized technical work into an easy to understand format was Risa’s value added expertise for me. We worked to update and highlight critical aspects of my Curriculum Vitae in a few brief interactions. The result allowed clear representation of 33 years of professionalism and competence that anyone could access because it was logical and well organized. This allowed me to move forward in my career with confidence that comes with such reassessment and reflection. Thanks Risa!” - Hospital Executive with 20+ year tenure with one healthcare organization - Clear and thorough representation of 20+ year career accomplishments required for promotion/salary increase.