WBENC Certified
Laura Hill
Career Expert
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Themes
| Defining and Building Your Personal Brand |
| Career Effectiveness: Improve Your Competitive Edge |
| Job Search After 50: You’re Not Old -You’re Better! |
| Developing a Pitch That Works When You Need It |
| Recruiters Aren’t Bad People – What You Should Know About “Headhunters” |
| Managing Your Career – If You Don’t, Who Will? |
About
Laura Hill is founder and managing partner of Careers in Motion LLC, a career coaching firm based in New York City. She helps clients optimize their careers through personal assessment, strategic planning, and effective job search, including assistance with resumes, interviewing skills and negotiations. Her clients include C-suite executives, MBAs from top business schools, Wall Street professionals, career changers, and young people starting their careers. Her broad industry expertise includes financial services, especially capital markets and investment management; media/entertainment/internet; consumer products; and professional services.
Laura’s career experience includes executive search with Korn/Ferry International, Redwood Partners and startup MobileSpring Inc.; an eight year banking career with JPM Chase; and heading client services for boutique outplacement firm Crenshaw Associates.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, JobsInTheMoney.com, and SmartMoney.com. She speaks frequently to business groups on a wide range of career management topics.
Laura received an MBA in Finance from the Stern School at New York University and a BBA in Marketing from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. Laura is a Certified Career Coach with The Five O’Clock Club, an outplacement and career coaching organization.
Assets
With all the challenges of today’s complex business world, few of us have time to proactively manage our career. Books and messages abound that exhort us to find our passion and be all that we can be, but where is the practical advice on how to do that?
Laura Hill’s presentations on career management – from building your personal brand to improving your effectiveness on the job – are inspiring and actionable, and based on solid career management principles. Her experience as a corporate manager, an entrepreneur, and a recruiter ensure that her advice is rooted in the real world.
Laura’s topics are appropriate for affinity groups and corporate audiences as well. Smart employers know that supporting their employees in “being all they can be” is a terrific and inexpensive retention tool.
Recent audiences have included The Financial Executives Networking Group, Katzenbach Partners LLC, Stern Women in Business Annual Conference, Association of Corporate Counsels and Financial Executives International.
Rave Reviews
“I was impressed by your command of the subject matter, insights and the examples from your professional experience.”
“Your candid and lively presentation on how job seekers can use information about their own aptitudes was extremely helpful to our audience – and the feedback was resoundingly enthusiastic!”
“You are a very effective and dynamic presenter.”
“Thanks for your very insightful presentation. I took down verbatim some of your response examples to some sticky issues.”
“Great reviews from the attendees. Everyone enjoyed the evening & found it stimulating.”
“Laura Hill conducted another blockbuster presentation on Networking this week. People loved how interactive it was. It was very motivational for me and I set up at least three meetings with new people.”
