“I consider every last penny I’ve spent with you to be an investment. This is the first time in my career that I’ve been so proactive in my decision-making. It’s been an absolute pleasure working with you, and I’ve been sharing your information with a lot of legal recruiters in my area.”
- General counsel of PE-held industry leader
Read More“I think you’re great, and one of the best things you’ve done for me is help me clean up all the stuff I did when I was at home with my kids. I would have never thought of how to do that. You are also super speedy, which is awesome!”
- Municipal lawyer
Read More“I definitely feel more solid about this résumé. It looks really great. Thank you so so so so much!”
- Newly licensed attorney re-entering the workforce
Read More“It’s good. It’s intense. It’s everything I thought it would be and more. I really like interacting with the board and it’s a huge portion of my job. I learn something new everyday. I did interview with the executive team and have to be approved by the board and the GC of the majority stockholder, but I felt prepared for the whole process.”
- Senior corporate generalist on landing first role as GC in a public company
Read More“This résumé looks really wonderful. Thank you so much. I have appreciated all your help, guidance, and counsel. I feel much more confident about my job search now.”
- Graduating law student transitioning into first attorney role
Read More“Oh my gosh, Shauna, this is an amazing conversation. If you weren’t asking me these questions, I wouldn’t remember the details of my work at all or see how relevant some of my earlier work is to what I want to do today.”
- Senior in-house counsel returning to FT work after downshift for family
Read More“You really opened my eyes on a lot of things. This has been great for me.”
- Second-career technology lawyer
Read More“One purpose of this conversation is to benchmark, to understand how my résumé compares to others in a similar situation. And you’re giving me a lot of that. Not only is what you’re saying make sense, but I know it all too well. This has been very helpful.”
- Fortune 25 business unit GC
Read More“Thank you for sending the résumé and cover letters, Julie. I’m excited to send these out to firms. I appreciate all your help and advice in getting these to reflect some of my more recent accomplishments.
- Graduating law student transitioning into practice
Read More“Hi Jared, thanks again for all of your help. The [Company Name] is interested, and I have an interview with the recruiters later this week. I’ll let you know how it goes. If I get an actual interview, I’d like to schedule time with you for prep.”
- AGC for one of the world's largest nonprofit foundations
Read More“I read through the résumé we worked on and I’m really pleased with it. I’ve got to say, it just has a completely different feel to it than my original. It’s more human. I really like the framing of each job. It’s fantastic. And just really tells a story where my old résumé didn’t. I’m not used to thinking about accomplishments instead of tasks. In some ways, it’s very obvious, but there’s a subtlety to what you do that’s very elegant. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m happy. I’ve enjoyed our conversations—not only because they've been super productive and helpful—but also because like talking to you. It’s been a shot of confidence at time when work has been depressing.”
- GC track transactional lawyer
Read More“I was just promoted to VP, AGC at the employer I continued to work with. Please thank Shauna. I have found the nuggets she shared to be invaluable.”
- In-house counsel at NASDAQ-listed company
Read More“I got the job at [trade association] for which we did the cover letter about 6 weeks ago.”
- Financial services executive
Read More“My cover letter has been really good and my résumé has been too. I haven’t had to do much adapting or personalizing the master documents because they’ve been so on target.”
- Aspiring chief compliance officer in healthcare sector
Read More“Thank you so much, this has been really enlightening.”
- Commercial litigator exploring in-house options
Read More“Thank you so much. I will definitely be recommending you to my friends, Shauna.”
- General Counsel
Read More“I’m very happy. Thank you so much for your time and effort. I really appreciate everything you’ve done. I hope we can work together again sometime.”
- FinTech GC./ COO
Read More“Thank you for all your help with the résumé and everything. Without you I wouldn't know any of this stuff. I mean I know I got this job partly because of you.”
- Director of Government Affairs for association
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