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Certified Personnel Consultant (CPC), Certified Job & Career Transition Coach (JCTC), Certified Career Management Coach (CCMC), Licensed Spiritual Counselor (RScP), and Home-Based CEO is a 15-year recruiting veteran and career advisor, supporting thousands of professionals at all levels to make profitable corporate transitions or to establish thriving home-based businesses. In addition to running his own firm, he writes articles for trade publications and speaks regularly at industry events

A Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Texas with degrees in Finance and International Business, Darrell spent his early career with Arthur Young (Ernst & Young) in London. Consulting with a career-coaching firm at the age of 24, he utilized the backdoor job search method to meet with 7 CFOs of the top Hollywood entertainment studios and landed an international financial position with MGM/United Artists Pictures. Through these initial experiences, he developed an understanding of the corporate structure and what it takes to get in.and get ahead. Based in Los Angeles, he coaches clients in his "Back-Door" method. Microsoft, America Online, Hunt-Wesson, and American Express have all utilized Darrell's professional services.

Darrell is the author of Headhunters Revealed! Career Secrets for Choosing and Using Professional Recruiters. The book received the 2001 Clarion Award for Best Book from the Association for Women in Communications, has been reviewed in Publishers Weekly, the American Library Association's Booklist, and Midwest Book Review, and has been featured in nationally syndicated career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy's "Careers Now." Available through www.HeadhuntersRevealed.com and www.Amazon.com, etc., this book has become a highly touted resource in the careers field.

Darrell has been featured in the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com, Business Week Online, MSN Careers, CareerBuilder.com, and on Wall Street Journal Radio. He is a frequent guest on local and national radio and television programs and is regularly quoted in newspapers, magazines, and journals. He is a featured speaker at local and national events including the LA Times CareerBuilder Career Expo, The Career Masters Institute Annual Conference, The International Career Development Conference, and was the Los Angeles facilitator for www.6FigureJobs.com networking meetings for 5 years.

In the last two years, Darrell's explorations into career freedom has awakened him to the whole world of folks earning CEO-level incomes from home while being with their family.and he now offers this approach to those who truly want something outside the corporate game.

A staunch advocate of what he calls "career partnershipT," Darrell promotes a lifetime of teamwork between job seekers, career coaches and recruiters. Through his online e-zine, The J.O.L.T. (Job Overhaul/Life Transition) Newsletter, media interviews, public speaking, career coaching, and work-from-home support, Darrell's purpose is to empower individuals to reap the most from their life's work. Whether moving onward and upward through the corporate ladder, creating a new career path altogether, or choosing to be a Home-based CEO), Darrell's purpose is to empower individuals to reap the most from their life's work.  He is currently working on his next book about midlife and career transitions.

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