Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I am an internationally acclaimed career coach and published author of “Career Sudoku: 9 Ways to Win the Job Search Game”, released and sold with top bookseller Amazon.com. I have been honored as the recipient of the Golden Goose Award from Franklin Covey Centers for Leadership after creating "HR In-A-Box", a small business Human Resources software that helps Small Businesses across America. Llames regularly speaks as an industry expert on career strategies, personal branding and networking for organizations across the country.

In 2010 I was named “One of The Finest Career Coaches” by The Examiner and in 2011 I'm pleased to say I was named an "Influential Woman in Business" by Todays Chicago Women's Magazine and Maven Media. As a globally recognized career expert in the US, UK, Australia, Japan, Spain and Sweden, it's my distinct honor to be featured on ABC News.com, CareerBuilder, The New York Post, LA Weekly, The Denver Post, Monster.com, Yahoo! HotJobs, TheLadders.com, CIO Update and Hispanic Executive Magazine.

As a featured weekly columnist on The New York Times-Rated Personal Branding Blog, my weekly career advice is syndicated on Forbes.com, Fox Business, Hoovers, Reuters and BNET garnering over 115,000 Twitter followers and ranked the #1 Job Search blog in Japan and by CareerBuilder.

For more information, visit www.adrianallames.com.

Work History

• adrianallames career services
• C.E.O. & Managing Principal

• Lead boutique career coaching services firm that provides career coaching, resume writing and job search-related services to professionals in career transition. Direct the strategic vision and daily operations (accounting, hr, marketing) in addition to delivering individual career coaching to clients in 7 countries.
  • Write creative, market-focused job search tools for clients (e.g. Resumes, LinkedIn Profiles): 5,000+
  • Provide highly personalized career coaching (e.g. interviewing, negotiation, branding) to clients: 3,000+
  • Contribute as a featured weekly author on NY-Times Rated blog rated #1 job search blog by CareerBuilder syndicated with Hoovers, Fox Business, Forbes, Reuters and BNET
  • Serve as an industry expert; featured on MSN, Business Week, NY Post, ABC News.com, CareerBuilder, TheLadders, Sydney Morning Herald
  • Speak at conferences, annual meetings and career events on networking, interviewing, personal branding, social media and the state of the career industry

• Comcast (f/k/a AT&T Broadband)
• Acting Director & Senior Manager, Training

• •Reported to Group Vice President, I established a $1.1Million training department from A to Z.
  •Recruited, Hired and Managed a team of 25 training professionals responsible for training 900+ ee’s
  •Developed training processes, procedures and evaluated instructor performance for 20 trainers

• Level 3 Communications
• Senior Training Manager

• Senior Training Manager
  •Established training and development department from ground-up including hiring plan and business strategy
  •Directed team of 6 training professionals and 10+ vendors responsible for training 100+ technical staff
  •Authored and implemented training policies, procedures & manuals used for 2,000 employees in the North America and Europe
  •Managed $1.2MM P&L including forecasting needs by quarter and providing monthly reporting

• Qwest (f/k/a US West Communications)
• Acting Director & Senior Manager, Training

• Acting Director and Manager, Training & Development
  •Developed comprehensive training & development business plan that created four curriculum groups
  • Led 4 vertical colleges of curriculum that provided training to 4,000+ sales and marketing professionals
  • Managed $13 Million budget while inspiring team of 5 to source the best training in the market
  • Promoted from Career Events Manager role to Acting Director/Senior Manager within 12 months

  Career Events Recruiting Manager
  • Negotiated company’s first-ever career fair sponsorship worth $1 Million with The Denver Post
  • Managed 10-day hiring blitz that netted 200+ potential candidates and 25 new hires
  • Represented the company at all national career and job fairs traveling 89% of the time

Education

• Metropolitan State College of Denver
• Bachelor of Science, Business Management
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• Harvard Business School
• ManageMentor
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• Coursework completed through Harvard Business School's Corporate Leadership Programs.

• Humbert College
• Certified DACUM Facilitator, Job Analysis
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