CareerCircle was founded in 2019 to bridge the skills gap facing the technology industry. Our Managing Director <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-sneeder-a49a723/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Kim Sneeder</a> brought her 25 years of experience at Allegis to this new venture and made CareerCircle&rsquo;s success her passion.&nbsp;
 
&ldquo;I was given the incredible opportunity to build CareerCircle with a focus on serving underrepresented talent in tech. During my career, I have constantly worked to advocate for women and people of color in the tech industry, but CareerCircle has given me the chance to do that work at scale. We&rsquo;ve since built an ecosystem of 150 nonprofits, upskilling opportunities, and wraparound career services with a heightened level of advocacy to help our incredible members secure life-changing roles.&rdquo;
 

Our platform has been growing every day since then and in 2023 we have become the exclusive jobs platform for US-based Google Career Certificate graduates and the Google Employer Consortium, reached over 100,000 members, placed over 1,500 people into new jobs, and, by the end of the year, we will have helped to upskill more than 10,000 people.

<h2 style="text-align: center;">What Is CareerCircle?</h2>

Through our digital talent platform, we connect underserved community members with career resources like certificates and the job opportunities that they need to advance their lives and provide companies with the diverse, skilled talent they are looking to hire.
Think of our platform like a circle.
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Members join our free platform either on their own, through certificate scholarship opportunities from our nonprofit partners like RISE, or after completing upskilling certificate programs like the Google Career Certificate program.
If a member joins through a scholarship opportunity, they are provided a Member Experience Advisor to guide them through their certificate program and act as a champion and advocate throughout their career journey.
After their upskilling is complete, we help members build out their profile through Traitify Assessments and personality quizzes that help members understand their values and skills in the workplace. When they&rsquo;re ready to job search we provide tools like resume builders and templates, interview preparation tools, and 1:1 career coaching. Members can also take a proactive role in their job search by using job alerts and our job board to find the right job for their goals.
Throughout this entire process, our recruiting team is using our talent platform as a diverse talent pipeline to pull candidates for open positions and provide that dedicated recruiting support that people can&rsquo;t get anywhere else. Our employment partners get the diverse, skilled talent that their organizations need to be successful and we place our members in jobs that change their lives for the better.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Our Impact</h2>

<a href="https://www.wiley.com/edge/site/assets/files/2689/diversity_in_tech_2021_us_report_by_mthree.pdf" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">According to a 2021 Wiley survey</a>, 68% of business leaders feel there is a lack of diversity in the tech industry and 51% say they struggle to hire diverse entry-level talent. When we were founded we aimed to bridge the skills gap and made it our mission to find jobs for communities who are often underrepresented in the technology industry.
We approach that mission with an equity over equality mindset that ensures that each member gets the direct support they need, no matter their circumstances. And the same goes for our employer partners. We approach every member, organization, and nonprofit by being a consultative partner to ensure that our strategy is catered to their success.
And it&rsquo;s working.
According to <a href="https://www.zippia.com/advice/diversity-in-high-tech-statistics/#:~:text=White%20employees%20account%20for%2062,20%25%20of%20the%20technology%20field." rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">a Zippia study</a>, just over 26% of tech jobs are held by women, and in the US tech industry, 62% of jobs are held by white Americans, while Black Americans hold 7%, Latinx Americans hold 8% and Asian Americans hold 20% of jobs.
Meanwhile, at CareerCircle, our 2023 placements are significantly more diverse. So far this year:
<ul>
<li>32% are Black</li>
<li>28% are white</li>
<li>25% are Hispanic</li>
<li>14% are Asian</li>
<li>36% identify as Women</li>
</ul>

<h2 style="text-align: center;">How to Get Involved</h2>

We are constantly growing, adding new features, and committed to bringing our services to anyone who needs support to make a career change, grow their skills, or just explore how upskilling with advocacy support can change their life.
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<h3>If you&rsquo;re a job seeker:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Join the platform: If you haven&rsquo;t already, join the platform to get access to free job resources like resume builders, interview prep, and 1-on-1 career coaching. You can sign up <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/candidates/signup" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</li>
<li>Apply for jobs:&nbsp;Our job board is filled with roles for people looking to break into the technology industry. Remember: You need to be a member to use the job board and set up a job alert so make sure to join first!</li>
</ul>
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<h3>If you&rsquo;re an organization:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Get direct recruiting support: If you&rsquo;re looking to post a job, get direct recruiting support, access our platform, or be a part of a custom or multi-employer virtual job fair,&nbsp;<a href="https://go.careercircle.com/request-a-demo" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">get in touch with our team</a> to learn how we can get you set up.</li>
<li>Sign up for an employer account: Our free employer account allows you to get a preview of using the platform for your sourcing needs. You can sign up <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/employers/signup" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">here</a>. Remember: You need to use your company email to register.</li>
</ul>

CareerCircle closes the opportunity divide and develops the workforce of tomorrow.

What Is CareerCircle?

Our platform has been growing every day and in 2023 we have become the exclusive jobs platform for US-based Google Career Certificate graduates and the Google Employer Consortium, reached over 100,000 members, placed over 1,500 people into new jobs, and, by the end of the year, we will have helped to upskill more than 10,000 people.

An impactful experience summary can help your CareerCircle profile show up to hiring managers and make sure that your resume highlights the most important experience for a role.&nbsp;But it can be difficult to get started trying to condense all of your skills and experience into a couple of sentences.
In this blog post, we&rsquo;re going to take you through what makes an effective experience summary and the 3 step framework you can follow to write your own. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What Is an Experience Summary?</h2>
 Sometimes called a <a href="https://novoresume.com/career-blog/resume-summary" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">resume summary</a> or executive summary, an experience summary is a 2 - 5 sentence synopsis of your work experience, achievements, and top skills. It is a paragraph at the top of your resume to help recruiters and hiring managers contextualize your experience.&nbsp;It is often responsible for piquing the interest of the recruiter/hiring manager enough to get them to continue reading.
Talent platforms, like CareerCircle, also use experience summaries as part of your candidate profile which helps hiring managers find you on the platform. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">What Makes an Effective Experience Summary?</h2>
<h3> Keep It Short</h3>
Keep your summary around 2 - 3 sentences. If you have a lot of experience, you can go up to 5 short sentences. Remember, you don&rsquo;t need to follow particular grammar rules so feel free to edit the sentences down to their bare essentials.
<h3> Embrace Keywords</h3>
Keywords are the words or phrases that people use to search a database (like Google or an ATS).&nbsp;Using <a href="https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/resumes-cover-letters/resume-keywords-and-phrases" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">keywords in your experience summary</a>, and throughout your resume, helps your resume show up better when a recruiter is searching an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).&nbsp;
To brainstorm the keywords you should use, look at the requirements on the job posting. Chances are there are keywords hidden in plain sight like, &ldquo;budget management&rdquo; or &ldquo;digital marketing.&rdquo;
<h3> Tailored and Optimized</h3>
When you are working on tailoring your resume, make sure to optimize your resume summary for the particular role, too.&nbsp;You don't need to take a lot of time! Your summary should include things like 5 years of experience if the posting calls for 5 years of experience, any software tools that are specifically mentioned, languages, etc.
Remember: Your CareerCircle profile is the perfect place to house your experience summary. When you are applying for a new job you can simply copy, paste, and edit it onto your resume as needed! 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">How to Write Your Experience Summary</h2>
 Let&rsquo;s go step-by-step through writing your experience summary. In this example, we&rsquo;ll be building a summary for an implementation manager who has about almost 5 years of experience in the software-as-a-service industry, but you can apply the framework to any profession.
<h3> Start with the Basics</h3>
In the opening sentence, mention your job title or the one that&rsquo;s on the job posting, your years of experience, and a quick overview of what you do. 
<blockquote>
Resourceful implementation manager with 4+ years of experience onboarding SaaS users.
</blockquote>
<h3> Highlight Certificates and Skills</h3>
Move on to sharing any appropriate education and certificates you have (especially if the job posting calls for something specific) and showcase a technical skill or two. 
<blockquote>
Resourceful implementation manager with 4+ years of experience onboarding SaaS users. Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science and a Google Career Certificate in IT Support with extensive experience in Microsoft Office and SQL.
</blockquote>
<h3> Wrap Up with Achievements</h3>
Pull the most impressive achievements from your resume to close out your summary. 
<blockquote>
Resourceful implementation manager with 4+ years of experience onboarding SaaS users. Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science and a Google Career Certificate in IT Support with extensive experience in Microsoft Office and SQL. Career highlights include building an automation process to track and organize support requests resulting in a 95% customer satisfaction rate and improving retention by 54% YoY.
</blockquote>
 Don't have quantifiable data? Applying for an entry-level position? Focus more on some extra skills you can bring to the role. This can be a great time to mention softer skills like time management or communication. 
<blockquote>
Resourceful implementation manager with 4+ years of experience onboarding SaaS users. Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Computer Science and a Google Career Certificate in IT Support with extensive experience in Microsoft Office and SQL. Skilled at managing multiple competing priorities at one time and bringing strategy to ambiguous situations.
</blockquote>
 Remember: If you find yourself at a loss, you can always start by using a tool like Bard AI. Feed in the prompt, &ldquo;Create a 3-sentence summary of this resume:&rdquo; and then copy in your resume. For more tips on how to use AI in your job search, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/careercircle/" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">check out our LinkedIn</a>.
 Ultimately, your experience summary is another opportunity to highlight what you&rsquo;ve done in the past and how it relates to what you can bring to the role.&nbsp;
By taking the time to create an impactful summary, you can feel confident that you are proving your worth to every job you apply for!

In this blog post, we’re going to take you through the 3 step framework to write your own experience summary.

How to Write an Impactful Experience Summary

In this blog post, we’re going to take you through what makes an effective experience summary and the 3 step framework you can follow to write your own.

After a teenage dream of becoming a forensic psychologist, Nykyta Arnold, Product Owner and Business Analyst here at CareerCircle, switched gears in college.
Being an athlete (she played soccer and was a cheerleader) she was pretty immersed in the exercise science and kinesiology world so when she transferred to Georgia State, she declared her major as Kinesiology.
Kinesiology is a more medical-focused course and Nykyta ended up taking courses in subjects like neuroscience and cardiopulmonary sciences. &ldquo;A lot of people who have a Bachelor&rsquo;s go on to be a physician&rsquo;s assistant or they go into nursing. And it began to feel like the right path for me so I fully intended to go into the healthcare field,&rdquo; she shared when asked about her early career aspirations. After getting her undergraduate degree, she worked in a hospital and began getting her hours to become a physician&rsquo;s assistant. Before long, she got accepted to graduate school.
Then life threw her a curveball. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">When a Graduate Student Becomes a Working Mom</h2>

In the semester that grad school was due to start, she found out she was pregnant with her oldest child.
While her school was in New York, her family and her support were in Georgia so she decided to take a break and stay in Georgia.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very hands-on program, but I took what I could online after he was born. But then I became a single mom. When that happened, I realized that working 12 hours in a hospital and doing what I had to do to succeed in the medical field wasn&rsquo;t going to work for me as a single parent.&rdquo;
She ended up moving in with her parents and was working multiple jobs to make enough to support herself and her son. &ldquo;I started working at doctor&rsquo;s offices and places here and there. I had, three part-time jobs to equate to enough money and I just finally got to the point where I needed one job with set hours and benefits. My brother-in-law was working at a staffing firm at the time and he ended up introducing me to this whole new career path.&rdquo;
A tip for you: Never underestimate <a href="https://builtin.com/career-development/professional-networking" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">the power of your network</a>. The people you surround yourself with could be the key to your next career path. Talk with the people in your life about what they do for work and how they like it and be honest with them about what you&rsquo;re looking for. You never know what doors it could open for you!
While she was working at a staffing firm in Georgia, her territory was actually in Texas so she had to build relationships virtually with her clients in order to be successful.
&ldquo;This is the most important part of my journey because I look back on it and it makes me really proud. My pay was $500 a week before taxes. As a single parent, I was coming home with essentially nothing, but we had uncapped commissions. I knew that I had to work really hard in order to do what I needed to do.&rdquo;
But Nykyta is particularly skilled in working hard and making things happen. &ldquo;So technically with a $500 a week salary, I was making $26,000 annually. But by the end of my first year, I had actually made $75,000. It was 2016 and it was the most money I had ever made in my life.&rdquo;
That was when she realized that she was really good at this.
Since then she has worked in the staffing industry in a few different positions. She began working with MSPs (Managed Service Programs, essentially outsourced management of contingent workforces) and moved into positions, like Strategic Manager, where she was managing people as well as programs. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Understanding and Enforcing Boundaries at Work</h2>

While Nykyta is skilled at making things work on the job, there is one role that left her reeling.
&ldquo;When I was brought into one particular company, I was told to manage an account that already had a great relationship. When I got there, there was actually no relationship at all. Nobody had heard of the company I was working for. The client contact I had been given wasn&rsquo;t even with the company. When I approached leadership about it, I was essentially told that it was actually my job to make a relationship.&rdquo;
That was easier said than done. It was the midst of 2020 and, as many of us remember, business relationships, sales, and hiring were at a standstill.
&ldquo;I felt like I got set up where I was never going to be able to succeed. There were major metrics and goals that I was given to hit, but then no support or resources to hit those goals.&rdquo;
But it was more than that that led Nykyta to leave that role.
&ldquo;They hired somebody that ended up making a couple of sexist comments about women. I told HR about it and they had a talk with him, but the comments continued. The final straw was when he made a comment about my natural hair as a Black woman.&rdquo;
She was able to find a new role before she left, but she continued to share her concerns with the company up until her exit.
&ldquo;I felt so off-kilter at that time because I didn&rsquo;t know if I was being too sensitive or if I should have stuck it out for longer, but then a couple of months after I left, some people on the management team reached out to me to apologize for how they handled the situation. I felt really validated and it helped me to see that it&rsquo;s always the right thing to say something even if it feels uncomfortable in the moment.&rdquo;
A tip for you: Sexist and racist comments are never welcome and standing and speaking up when someone says something offensive is the right thing to do. It will likely be uncomfortable and could leave you feeling vulnerable, but there are resources to support you. If you need suggestions for how to call someone out (or apologize if you say something offensive), check out <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/how-to-embrace-inclusive-language-in-the-workplace" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">this blog post</a>. 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Her Path to Product Management</h2>

Thankfully, she didn&rsquo;t have to stay in a troublesome role for long. She ended up making another shift when she began working as a Customer Success Manager at HiringSolved, a software tool that used AI to help search ATSs more effectively. &ldquo;I had never worked in Customer Success before, but the stars really aligned. I understood staffing so it was really easy for me to advocate for the customer&rsquo;s needs. Inadvertently, that role set me up for my job here at CareerCircle.&rdquo;
As a Customer Success Manager, Nykyta went above and beyond and not only provided support to customers but also played a key role in working with the development team to guide the software development toward the goals of its users.
Here at CareerCircle, she works as a link between the development and business teams to make sure that our platform is meeting the needs and goals of all of our users, both hiring teams and candidates. She gathers requests, maps them to the skills and bandwidth of the team, arranges timelines and roadmaps, and more.
A tip for you: You may be preparing for your next role right now and not even realize it. Think about the extra tasks that you take on or the projects that spark the best work from you. When you&rsquo;re ready for the next step in your career journey, consider how those projects could be a career.
While it&rsquo;s still a new role for her, she is taking each day as she always has: An opportunity to learn something new and do something different.
While Nykyta has always learned on the job, she is looking into more traditional training opportunities. &ldquo;I do think I&rsquo;m going to go for a certificate or do a course because I&rsquo;ve definitely got the on-the-job training, but I&rsquo;d like to go back and do a by-the-book training and see how I can merge the two.&rdquo; 
<h2 style="text-align: center;">If Nykyta Could Give You One Piece of Advice&hellip;</h2>

&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be afraid of change. Don&rsquo;t count yourself out just because <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/so-you-feel-unqualified-for-the-role" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">you don&rsquo;t have the experience</a> or you think you&rsquo;ll mess up. If you have the opportunity to make a change and try something new and it appeals to you, do it.&rdquo;
She also wants you to remember to have confidence in yourself to figure out what you need to do to be successful. After all, you never know where a change will lead you, but if you can carry confidence, compassion, and inner strength into the workplace, there&rsquo;s no doubt you&rsquo;ll end up in the right place. 
If you&rsquo;re ready to take the next step on your career journey, <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/candidates" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">join the CareerCircle community here</a>.&nbsp;
For more career journey stories from the CareerCircle team, check out our posts with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/careercircle-career-journey-cecily-guggisberg" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Cecily Guggisberg</a>. <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/the-power-of-a-leap-of-faith-a-careercircle-career-journey" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Daniel Pugh</a>,&nbsp; and <a href="https://www.careercircle.com/blog/post/saying-yes-to-a-different-path-a-careercircle-career-story" rel="follow noopener" target="_blank">Courtney Remaley</a>.

Nykyta Arnold made the transition from healthcare to product management...here's how she did it.

Finding Confidence in the Face of Change: A CareerCircle Career Journey

“Don’t be afraid of change. Don’t count yourself out just because you don’t have the experience or you think you’ll mess up. If you have the opportunity to make a change and try something new and it appeals to you, do it.”

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