About Us

Barbara Safani, owner of Career Solvers, has over twelve years of experience in career management, recruiting, executive coaching, and organizational development. Ms. Safani partners with both Fortune 100 companies and individuals to deliver targeted programs focusing on resume development, job search strategies, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation skills, and online identity management.

Ms. Safani holds a Master of Arts degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. She is certified by the National Resume Writers' Association, the Professional Association of Resume Writers, Career Directors International, and Career Management Alliance, a distinction only a handful of resume writers world-wide have achieved. In addition, she is a three-time award winner in the TORI (Toast of the Resume Industry) annual awards sponsored by Career Directors International.

She is the author of Happy About My Resume: 50 Tips For Building a Better Document to Secure a Brighter Future and her work is featured in numerous career related publications and softwares including:

• Interview Magic
• How to Say it for Interviews
• No Nonsense Interviews
• Top Notch Resumes
• How to Write and Design a Professional Resume to Get the Job
• Career Hub Insider's Guide to Job Search
• Career Hub Insider’s Guide to Resume Writing
• Career Hub Insider's Guide to Interviewing
• Career Hub Insider's Guide to Networking
• No-Nonsense Resumes: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Resumes That Get Interviews and Job Offers
• No Nonsense Cover Letters
• Cover Letters for Dummies
• Designing the Perfect Resume
• Expert Resumes for Managers and Directors
• Expert Resumes for Baby Boomers
• Expert Resumes for Computer and Web Jobs
• Expert Resumes for Teachers and Educators
• College Graduate Resumes to Land $75,000+ Jobs
• Career Planning and Adult Development Journal
• Resumes for the Rest of Us
• ResumeMaker® Professional 2008
• Fabulous at Forty, The Forty Something Employee
• Directory of Professional Resume Writers
• I'm on LinkedIn...Now What???
• I’m on Facebook…Now What???
• Job Search Bloopers: Every Mistake You Can Make on the Road to Career Suicide...and How to Avoid Them

Ms. Safani has appeared as a career expert on CNN, ABC, FOX, and Workopolis TV and her career advice has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Yahoo HotJobs, and MSNBC online. She is a career expert for CareerBuilder and she regularly contributes career-relevant content to The Ladders 100K job board and Kennedy Executive Agent. She was instrumental in creating the resume writer certification exam for Career Directors International and she currently sits on the board of the Career Management Alliance and the Human Resources Association of New York.

Prior to starting her consultancy, Ms. Safani was a Human Resources Executive for a Fortune 100 company where she oversaw management development, recruiting, and employee relations initiatives.