Talks, workshops, and consulting on job search assistance
Orville Pierson offers consulting services on job search assistance programs to not-for-profit organizations. He also does training and coaching for volunteers working in those programs, and talks for unemployed job hunters. Click here for a list of his appearances, interviews, projects and talks.
These books have attracted the attention of business executives, colleges and universities, B-schools, and church jobs programs, as well as the media and a very diverse group of ordinary people. As a result, Orville has an increasing number of author appearances, interviews, projects and talks.
Orville is also Senior Vice President, Corporate Director of Program Design and Service Delivery for Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a $200 million career services company with 240 offices worldwide. LHH services include Leadership Consulting, Executive Coaching, Career Management training and Career Transition (outplacement). It is wholly owned by Adecco SA, a global employment services firm with 5800 offices in 68 countries.
Orville creates books, Websites and videos to teach career management and job search to LHH’s clients, who are mostly unemployed and number up to 100,000 per year. He also designs training materials for LHH’s staff of 2,000, and trains consultants in career counseling, coaching, and consulting.
He is the sole or principal author of dozens of LHH publications, including:
Executive Directions: Creating Options in Life and Work, a career management book for senior executives.
Managing Your Search Project, a comprehensive job search guide used by over 1,000,000 people in the $40,000 to $150,000 income bracket.
The Road to Entrepreneurship, a guidebook for first-time entrepreneurs.
What’s Next? A Road Map for Exploring the Rest of Your Life, a guidebook for the Baby Boom generation on how to create better life balance in their so-called “retirement” years, whether they choose to work or not.
With LHH since 1992, Orville has trained hundreds of LHH consultants in the US and UK. In 1991, prior to joining LHH, Orville created the job search assistance methodology now called the Pierson Method and Job Search Work Teams while working as an independent consultant. Earlier, he worked for a number of other career services firms, designing job search assistance programs and providing career coaching and related training.
In addition to his work at LHH, Orville does volunteer work with not-for-profit organizations. He has been in the career services field since 1977 as a program and process designer, author, speaker and facilitator as well as consultant and career coach to hundreds of private clients. His education includes includes a BA from from Yale University, three years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and certification in psychological instruments used in career assessment.
Orville Pierson's appearances, interviews, projects and talks
Media
Selected as job hunting expert by ABC News Primetime
NPR radio and network TV affiliates, Charlotte NC
CBS TV affiliate, Rochester NY
BostonWorks.com (Boston Globe affiliate) live chat
Rick Gillis Employment Radio
Peter Clayton Total Picture Radio
Business New Hampshire magazine
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Judy Stringer article)
Cincinnati, The Enquirer (John Eckberg column)
For Me magazine
Toronto Metro
Sheryl Silver,
LA Times syndicated column (about two dozen newspapers)
Talks for Managerial and Executive Job Hunters
Executive Networking Group, Chicago
Similar groups of executive job hunters in
Irvine CA, Hartford CT and Boston MA
Colleges and Universities
DePaul University, keynote speaker at Career Week
Mount Holyoke College, FP program,
Career Boot Camp
Rensselear undergraduates
Indiana college career counselors convention at Purdue University
Connecticut Women in Higher Education
Washington DC area university deans and career counselors
Quinnipiac University, alumni events in Boston, CT, RI, and NYC
College career counselors meeting, Connecticut
University of Massachusetts, student SHRM chapter
Business Schools and Management Programs
Harvard Business School, Boston alumni
RPI, Lally School
University of New Haven Business School alumni
Duke University, Masters of Engineering Management program
Talks for Human Resources Managers in Fortune-Listed Companies
San Diego
Jacksonville
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Tampa
Rochester
Pasadena
Boca Raton
Hartford
Churches, Community Groups, Not-for-Profits
Between Jobs Ministry, Houston
Executive Networking Group, Chicago
Community networking and jobs group, Rochester
Women’s support services, Phoenix
AblilityLink Expo, Chicago
Career Management Conference, Apostolic Church of God, Chicago
Job Search Work Team Leader Trainings
Executive Networking Group, Chicago
Mount Holyoke College
Between Jobs Ministry, Houston
This is Orville Pierson’s author website. It has no connection to Lee Hecht Harrison LLC.
Disclaimer:
This website is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is produced with the understanding that the author is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, counseling, or other professional service. If legal, accounting, counseling. or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought.
Information contained in this website has been obtained by the author from sources believed to be reliable, including the author's own experience. Most figures and percentages in this site are estimated from the author's experience and are not based on polls, statistical sampling, or scientific fact. Job seekers need to use their own best judgment in combining the advice in this website with other information and applying it to their own situations. Individual job searches will vary widely and there are no fixed or established rules on the best way to proceed.
The author does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information published herein, and the author will not be responsible for any errors, omissions, or damages arising out of the use of this information.
