McSweeney Group

Julie is a top flight sales executive with honed sales experience. She is recognized as an industry leader in the commercial furnishing industry. Having worked for major manufacturers and dealers, she has consistently been a top performer, known for exceeding sales goals. Her focus is customer centric, and in addition to winning numerous awards and contests throughout her career, she has a substantial list of happy customers.

Making a difference:

Julie runs a 501(c)(3) charity called “Helping Kids with Cancer”. For 13 years, the charity has provided handmade Christmas Stockings from the Utah Architectural and Design community, including all major higher education design students. These handmade stockings give a few minutes of relief and joy to parents and children, knowing that they are cared for. In addition, she has raised over $40,000 in funds to help struggling families, who are financially devastated by their child’s cancer treatment, by providing emergency gas and grocery cards.

By melding creative ideas, keywords and powerful writing, Shauna has assisted many corporate entities and individuals on how to brand themselves in meaningful ways through social media verbiage, resumes, mission statements, marketing campaigns and value propositions. She is a sought after consultant on the intricacies of social media sites such as Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter.

Shauna holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Utah’s prestigious Organizational Communication program with a minor in Business Marketing. Her work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been featured in various magazines and anthologies.

Through her career, Terri has coached and advised thousands of candidates through their job searches teaching them how to become the “stand out” candidate. She is fully committed to helping individuals find their unique place in the business world, achieve their goals, and find their ideal career path.

Terri has extensive experience working closely with company management developing strategies to identify top talent. This knowledge allows her to help clients position themselves, leveraging their strengths to become valuable assets to their employers or the best candidate in the interview process.

Terri possesses a thorough knowledge of intricate employment markets and understands that a job search in today’s economy looks much different than even five years ago. She also appreciates that each employment search is unique, necessitating goals and plans created specifically for each client. This focus at both the macro and micro levels ensures that each partnership is specialized, satisfying and successful.

Making a Difference

Terri is an active volunteer and requested speaker for several job seeker and networking groups and career resource centers. She is a natural networker and continues to grow her professional network, utilizing social media groups and creating a circle of influence to assist her clients. She has also been involved in many community organizations including the development and start-up of a local high school Campus Life program, fundraising and committee membership as well as a counselor with CareNet.

Making a difference:

Irene has been a foster mom for 9 years and has taken in more than 30 children into her home

She is skilled at improving processes in order to complete client requests as quickly and efficiently as possible, while maintaining the quality and professionalism they expect. In addition to her customer service experience, she is also a motivated sales person. She has managed a group of sales people who continuously reached their goals both individually and as a team. She feels strongly that alone we can reach a peak, but working together, we can scale a mountain. By reaching out to her peers, and sharing information, she has gained an understanding for what is needed to succeed in many different areas of business.

Making a Difference

Toni’s community service includes Breast Cancer, The Alzheimer’s’ Foundation, Utah Food Bank and the Utah Humane Society.

Jennifer is sought after for her unique ability to help individuals develop their personal brand and create a career management strategy.

As a corporate consultant, Jennifer works closely with management to offer career coaching to internal employees. The outside perspective is valuable to employees who need that extra push past hurdles holding them back from being the super star they are inside. She offers executive coaching and HR strategy based on the needs of the corporate client. Her outplacement services are different from other companies because she customizes the coaching based on the individual, which reduces the unemployment time and saves companies money after the lay-off.

Jennifer is the Executive Producer and Host of the weekly radio show: Job Club Radio. Along with her guests, she discusses a variety of topics that are work related; such as, Career management, Image, Resumes, Interviewing, Working overseas, etc. Listen live on Tuesday's at 2pm ET, catch the archived radio shows right from your computer, or download to your iPod/MP3 player.

She is a regular blog contributor to the Careers and Workplace division of the Examiner, Career Corner of Imagine a Happier You, and guest blogger for Forbes.

Before launching JA Career Coaching, Jennifer worked 11 years in the recruiting and staffing industry in award winning roles of recruiter, sales executive and branch manager. She placed about 1000 people in various positions including sales, marketing, clerical, manufacturing, engineering, technology, customer service, operations, management and accounting.

Prior to working in recruiting, Jennifer enjoyed a successful career in retail and lead sales teams to record sales growth for key markets. She is a graduate of Dominican University of California with a Bachelor's degree in International Business and Art History. Today, she continues to learn about cultures through travel and study and always taking the opportunity to "interview" people she meets along the way.

Jennifer is involved in many networking and business organizations where she is known as a "master networker" and strives to connect people. She regularly presents job search information in presentations and workshops to church groups, schools, and various community organizations. She is the Founder of the Utah County Job Club - a free Utah based group for job seekers to come together weekly for support, networking, and learning about effective job seeking techniques.