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About Me

Melissa is a BILINGUAL (English/French) social media and career strategist.

Proprietor, www.careercoachingbyphone.com
Creating social media strategies and marketing campaigns for businesses and job seekers.

Melissa has empowered and motivated clients from the military, police, education, nursing, health, sales and retail fields.

A leader in employment/career services, Melissa is a certified solution-focused Career Specialist. She diligently tracks cutting-edge trends for which she has held sway amongst colleagues and employment/service providers.

Melissa activates her personal brand by making her professional imprint on social media, such as Australian career internet radio, careercommuniqueradio.com and on notable North American career sites such as www.careerealism.com and secretsofthejobhunt.com.
Facebook: melissacynthiamartin
FB fan page: careercoachingbyphone.com
Twitter:@ravingredhead
@melissacmartin (bilingual)

For 10 years, Melissa enjoyed a successful career as a radio broadcaster in Southern Ontario and Northern New York.

RECENT SUCCESSES:

ebook author, How to use social media in your job search.

Started to help businesses and job seekers with customized Facebook fan pages for personal and professional branding.
Speaker for 4 consecutive years at an international career conference, cannexus (Ottawa, Canada), www.cannexus.ca

Melissa has been a guest a few times by Australian career coaches Keith Keller and Annemarie Cross on careersuccessradio.com On the program, Melissa discussed how she made a quantum leap career transition from radio broadcaster to career specialist. In addition she was accepted as a “career expert” on www.careerealism.com

Work History

  • careercoachingbyphone,com
  • owner
  • Credentialed career specialist who is a total social media convert. Offer career insights by phone: job searching; career coaching; interview coaching; career transition; cover letters; personal branding

Education

  • University of Ottawa
  • Teaching English as a foreign language certificate, ESL
  • 2006 - 2006
  • Certified in solution-focused interviewing and counselling, University of Toronto, 2005

  • University of New Brunswick
  • Bachelor of Education, French, English
  • 1995 - 1997
  • Queen's University
  • Bachelor of Arts, Classical studies, French
  • 1981 - 1985
Interests
fitness, pets, languages, social media, hockey
Goals
  1. To make careercoachingbyphone.com one of the top sites in North Amercia
  2. To deliver career coaching seminars across North America
  3. To offer teleseminars and webinars globally
  4. To live by the ocean in Nova Scotia part-time!
Favorite Quote
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Specialties
career coaching, social media; career counselling; teaching; teaching seminars; public speaking; interviewing

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Tony Deblauwe
Penelope Trunk
Shane Gibson
Keith Keller
Ryan Paugh
Ben Boudreau
Linda A. Hamilton
Neeraj Bhushan
JR Moreau