After years of witnessing the lack of professional career preparation offered to today's active and passive job seekers (often students & new graduates), I was inspired to share my human resources knowledge and experiences to make job hunting and interviewing an easier feat. This thorough and often comedic self-marketing guide will aid not only the first-time job & career seekers, but will also help those attempting to relaunch and reboot their careers. The Interview Artist will provide appropriate tools that will not only help you to sell your best self to an interviewer, but it will also (to name a few): -Replace the negativity of job searching & interviews with self-esteem and confidence; -Avoid becoming an unemployment statistic by securing employment in a field you enjoy; -Stop random acts of job quests and adopt a successful method for self-marketing and interviewing. Become the next interview artist by utilizing the instruments presented to create your professional canvas.
The self-described "Gumbo Girl" hails from the bayous of south Louisiana, where she is eldest to 9 children to her parents. She embarked upon her passion to lead, train, and mentor others from an early age, but didn't select a career that provided such the latter part of her college years. With a bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management and a second in Mass Communication, this lover of communication and community launched her career in Human Resources in 1998 as an Outreach Coordinator with Catholic Social Services in her hometown. With a desire to leave her small town for bigger and better professional opportunities, where her skills and assets were more noteworthy than her your social network, she decided to relocate to Dallas, Texas. It was there that she grew and refined herself in the various facets of Human Resources. She has held corporate positions in not only the non-profit industry, but also in the insurance, government, and medical sectors. She also took a 3-year hiatus from a direct HR role to enhance and diversify her skills and abilities and to explore career services in the education realm. She served as Assistant Career Services Director at a vocational school, where she assisted the campus population of massage therapy, personal fitness, dental assistant, medical assistant, HVAC, automotive, and CNA students & graduates with their career development and job placements. After that school closed its' Texas campuses and 13 years in the DFW area, Katrina and her family relocated to San Antonio to be closer to family, but 9 months prior to moving, she launched her career coaching service, KWC Career Coaching. This part-time service provides career and job seekers with the essential support and knowledge to secure employment in their fields of interest. In addition to being a full-time wife and mother, she is also a Human Resources Director for Shadow Mountain Recovery, a residential treatment facility for alcohol and substance abuse adults. There she also teaches a group career development course and provides individualized aid to the clients with their career and job readiness prior to discharge from the addiction program back into their daily lives. While wearing many hats, she added one of an author. She released The Interview Artist, a career development book in which she shares a multitude of her good, bad, and ugly real-life experiences to confirm that there is indeed an art to career development & interviewing.
