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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.

Barbara 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 and her work is featured in dozens of career related publications and software products.

Barbara has appeared as a career expert on CNN, 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 San Francisco Chronicle, AM-New York, Fortune Magazine, Monster, Yahoo HotJobs, AOL, CNN and MSNBC online, eFinancial Careers, and Dice. She is a career expert for 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 Management Alliance and the Human Resources Association of New York.

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