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How to Identify your Transferable Skills and Define your Value Proposition
Rick Ruvkun is a Career Consultant at LHH and has a private practice in career consulting.
How to Identify Your Transferable Skills and Define Your Value Proposition
Rick Ruvkun, Career Consultant at LHH with private practice
Rick will go over best practices in job search including:
- the job search "order of operations"
- how to create a branding statement
- how to be memorable, how to identify transferable skills
- how to identify target firms
- how to create a candidate market fit statement
Finally, after spending five years coaching over 1,000 clients at LHH, Rick will review "how to best land", whether you are making a pivot or upskilling to remain relevant in an AI world.
RICK RUVKUN
NEW YORK, NY
(917) 833-9795
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-ruvkun/
Rick (he/his) is a personalized career transition consultant. He has experience in recruiting and managing financial professionals. This gives him a clear understanding of the best practices job seekers can utilize to be readily recognized by recruiters and managers as standout candidates.
Most recently, Rick is a Senior Consultant at Lee Hecht Harrison, a market leader in career transition and outplacement services. Rick empowers clients to navigate career transitions, including retirement, by helping them research and network into their target firms and pursue fulfilling new paths.
Prior to becoming a career consultant, Rick spent his career managing equities for institutional clients. He is a retired Partner of Lord Abbett, a private investment management firm. Rick has a thorough understanding of how companies function from the point of view of pattern recognition and foresight into product innovation. Within asset management, Rick’s experience spans the functional areas of research, investments, institutional client relationship management and fund raising. Rick spent the past decade of his 35-year career as a Director of Equity Research and as an Equity Portfolio Manager. This experience allows him to approach and counsel clients on achieving their most productive paths to success from a broad variety of perspectives. Rick has an engineering degree from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He is treasurer of Central Queens Academy in New York City as well as well as a career advisorat the MIT Sloan School of Management for the Sloan Fellows Executive MBA Program. He is dedicated to financial literacy, mentoring college and graduate students and math literacy for first-generation students through his volunteer work.