Bud Whitehouse

Bud has been involved in employment in one form or another for more than 30 years. He has been a search consultant, a corporate recruiter, a human resources generalist and manager, an organization development consultant, a corporate outplacement consultant, and for over 15 years, has worked one-on-one with more than 1,500 clients to help them get better jobs and take ownership of their careers.

He has defined organizations; identified critical skills and key performance indicators; hired, trained, supervised, and fired people; and picked them up afterwards and helped them move on. There is little that he doesn’t know about both formal and informal hiring practices.

He has conducted workshops and seminars; given advice on call-in radio programs; and been the featured speaker before professional organizations, college classes, and employment support groups.

He has also been significantly unemployed twice, and understands the personal, family, and financial issues that accompany that situation.

In addition to his knowledge of the field, Bud is a natural coach. He excels at enabling clients to understand and master common sense strategies and tactics that elevate them above the level of “job-hunter” and to present themselves as the solution to an employer’s problem, maximizing their value to the employer specifically, and in the marketplace in general.

Bud’s passion is to see people take control of their careers. People spend the majority of their time going to work, working at work, going home from work, or thinking about work, but for most people career management means taking the first job that comes along, and the path of least resistance after that. In a stable, growing, local economy that may work. In the highly competitive, rapidly changing global economy of the 21st century, it doesn’t. Bud believes that to be successful today you must devote almost as much attention to managing your career as to doing your job. The idea that if you just do your job well you will be noticed and rewarded is simply no longer valid.