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Dave O'Farrell
| Dave O'Farrell is a career coach and an
outplacement consultant. He has dedicated most of his adult life
helping people achieve their goals. While he was still in high school,
he coached a little league hockey team; in college he was a youth
advisor at church. As a sales manager in his 20's, he trained
salespeople that were more than twice his age. Now he helps coach
little league baseball.
Dave's background includes:
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Fifteen years in the
career management business
as a staff member at one of the world’s three largest career
management firms, as a volunteer, and as an independent career
management consultant. Dave says he's fortunate to have helped
thousands of people in transition to achieve their goals.
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Dave M. O'Farrell
President |
§ Seven
years at a leading career management firm
as a client, workshop
trainer, individual career consultant, project consultant and
national account manager. Dave's top five clients were Delta Air
Lines, CIBA Vision, UPS, First Data and Kimberly-Clark.
§ Three
years as a Senior Training Consultant for Richardson,
a leading sales training and consulting company. The top five
clients he worked with were: Dell, Bank of America, GlaxoSmithKline,
Sears and KPMG Consulting. Dave applies consultative selling
strategies to your job campaign.
§ Eight
years as Executive Director of JobSeekers of Peachtree City.
JobSeekers is a nondenominational ministry for professionals who are
making a career transition. Approximately 45 business people attend
the meeting each Friday morning at First Baptist Church in Peachtree
City.
§ Eight years as President of O’Farrell Career Management
providing individual
(executive) career transition services. Dave works with clients at
all levels, from hourly employees up to and including executives
whose compensation is well above $250K.
Early Career and
Affiliations
Dave began his career with a company that
supplies engineering services and equipment to the heavy construction
industry. As a one of the youngest sales people in the history of the
company, he placed in the top 12% of the worldwide sales force. At the
age of 28, he was promoted to a management role where he was
responsible for sales, engineering and field service operations in a
five state region. In his last year as district manager, he finished
second out of 18 districts worldwide.
Dave graduated with honors from Southern
Polytechnic State University (SPSU)
in Marietta, Georgia where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree. He
is a former member of the Georgia Chapter of the National Speakers
Association (NSA
Georgia) and the Atlanta Chapter of ASTD (ASTD
Atlanta), where he served in many leadership roles including VP of
Member Services. He is currently active in the Atlanta chapter of the
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM
Atlanta).
Commit to the Lord
whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.
— Proverbs 16.3
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