About Us

Barbara Safani, owner of Career Solvers, has over fifteen 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 six-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 #JOBSEARCHtweet. Her work is featured in numerous career related publications and softwares including:

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

Ms. Safani has appeared as a career expert on CNN, CBS, ABC, FOX, Workopolis TV, and WOR News Radio and her career advice has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, AM-New York, Fortune Magazine, Smart Money Magazine, Money Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Monster, Yahoo HotJobs, AOL, CNN and MSNBC online, eFinancial Careers, and Dice. She is the lead blogger for AOL's job page, a career expert for CNN.com, CareerBuilder and Netshare 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 Thought Leaders Consortium 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.