Paul David Madsen has been involved in all facets of the talent procurement and promotion sector since 1984. He worked in key roles for two multi-billion dollar information-technology consulting corporations, the corporate office of a mid-market insurance corporation, and several local and regional executive search, staffing, contracting, and placement companies.
Paul has:
Made over 25,000 headhunting, recruiting, sourcing, screening, and interviewing contacts with active and passive job seekers in numerous states and countries.
Conducted thousands of sales calls and candidate pitch presentations to hiring managers and human resources professionals at corporations of all sizes
Worked as a Human Resources Recruiter as an in-house recruiter in HR for a handful of firms.
Placed hundreds of professionals into new corporate and health care positions across the USA.
Read, evaluated, and/or written tens of thousands of candidate resumes over 2.5 decades.
Been "branded" as America’s Job Coach since 2001 and hosted "Career Repair On the Air®" –a call-in talk radio show in 2002.
Made numerous job coaching-related appearances on local, regional, and national radio and television stations.
Taught small group career-transition seminars (since 1992) to over 1,000 attendees including early retirees, victims of lay-offs, new college grads, and professionals who've been fired, burned-out, or were just plain restless with their work.
Founded two search firms in two different niche markets; Held profit-and-loss responsibility (with record profitability) for a national, publicly-held staffing company.
Founded micropublisher Growmedia.com.
Authored Laid Off & Loving It (2001 edition), Laid Off & Loving It For 2010, a "future classic" novel, and several career transition-related seminars.
Earned his Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC) designation from the National Association of Personnel Services.
Graduated from a Nebraska liberal arts college with an Education degree.
