Carly Calabrese saw the Yoda from Star Wars quote of "Do or Do Not. There is no try," at a Hallmark Store and it resonated with her because that's how she lives her life. She believes in the no excuse approach to living the type of life you want TODAY. A creative and passionate individual, Carly Calabrese is the founder & implementer of Work Solutions & has been the owner for 11 years. She has over 14 years’ experience successfully working in a freelance capacity, over 14 years' experience successfully helping individuals find work and has over 14 years direct writing experience (defined as positions which required heavy writing). Carly has a very diverse career background, including working for State Government, City of Tacoma’s Human Resource Department assisting Human Resource Analysts with recruitment and selection duties such as: reviewing resumes for qualified candidates, assisting with proctoring test exams for qualified candidates, working on government contracts between the City of Tacoma and other business partners, and as a naval contractor for the Regional Safety Department on Keyport Base & Sub Base Bangor Base. She has held various other private sector positions as well as other small business ventures.
Carly has been awarded numerous scholarships, the Milgard Tribute Scholarship her first year at the UW Tacoma Business school where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management from the University of Washington Tacoma as well as the Herbert Goodman Scholarship two consecutive years in a row (highest GPA scholarship from Olympic College Foundation Office) as well as a $1,000 scholarship from Olympic College the summer of 2008. Carly was also a Dean's List and Honor Graduate for BOTH her Associate degrees from Olympic College in Bremerton, WA: an Associate of Arts & Science and an Associate of Technical Arts in Computer Information Systems Web Development. To learn more about Carly's work experience, leadership, educational, volunteer history, & more please visit her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/carlycalabrese
Carly loves helping career seekers, business owners, and individuals through career coaching, business marketing, writing, editing, and consulting services. She is full of energy, optimism, and perseverance. A natural born leader, she ran two networking groups, one called the “Puyallup Job Club” which was a FREE networking group for job seekers, business owners, and business professionals that was open to the public and met monthly at the South Hill Library Conference Room in Puyallup, WA. Everyone who attended received a one minute commercial, job leads, training opportunities to improve one’s self from computer training to self-improvement, job seeker advice, volunteer and networking opportunities, free/low cost community events, activities, and “freebies” are shared. Career seekers/changers, those who are re-entering the work force, those looking for supplemental and/or retirement income, business owners, and business professionals attended. Carly spoke monthly at the Puyallup Job Club on a different career related topic, for example, resumes, cover letters, how to get a job using LinkedIn, interviewing to land your dream job, thank you letters after an interview, and MUCH more. For more information, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/PuyallupJobClub/
The other networking group Carly ran and started on her own is the “Puyallup Referral Masters” which met most months on a Saturday from noon to 1:30 pm. Business owners attended (career seekers and business professionals were also welcome). Everyone received a one minute commercial, business owners shared upcoming events in their business, we see how we can help each other in our businesses, testimonials, business cards, business flyers, and referrals are also passed. The group has been in existence since April 2016. For more information, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/UP-Referral-Masters/
Carly also performed routine seminars on how to market yourself to get a job, business, and how the benefits of a career coach/professional marketer can help enhance you in general. For more information, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/How-to-get-business-using-LinkedIn-seminar/
Carly has been successful in her business for 11 years, helping career seekers with career coaching, from determining what career path to take, writing resumes, cover letters, providing access to more job leads, interview question practice, creation and maintenance of LinkedIn profiles as well as individualized and group LinkedIn marketing training, and more! Carly’s helped business owners and individuals write bios, provide marketing consultations, research and write articles, blogs, website content, LinkedIn profiles, and providing assistance with writing and editing business documents and books!
Carly is also a freelance writer and has written for & been published in various publications including: Women's World Magazine (TWICE she's been published), Eatonville Dispatch (Newspaper), SouthSoundTalk.com, South Sound Magazine, the Federal Way Mirror (Newspaper), the Tacoma Art Group, Showcase Media Magazine, the Business Examiner, & the Puyallup Herald (Newspaper). Carly also wrote for Tacoma.com, an online business directory for a little over 3 years as well as sold website and online marketing for Tacoma.com, increased readership to Tacoma.com, and assisted web designers with writing web copy for client's web pages.
Carly is always looking to grow the freelance side of her business as well.
If you know of:
To get in contact with Carly, please email her through the form at her website (to ensure your email reaches her inbox) by clicking on the "Contact" button at the TOP of this page OR visiting this link to it: http://www.worksolutionstoday.com/contact.html or call her at: 360-981-7463 & feel free to leave a detailed voicemail. Thank you!
Carly has been awarded numerous scholarships, the Milgard Tribute Scholarship her first year at the UW Tacoma Business school where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management from the University of Washington Tacoma as well as the Herbert Goodman Scholarship two consecutive years in a row (highest GPA scholarship from Olympic College Foundation Office) as well as a $1,000 scholarship from Olympic College the summer of 2008. Carly was also a Dean's List and Honor Graduate for BOTH her Associate degrees from Olympic College in Bremerton, WA: an Associate of Arts & Science and an Associate of Technical Arts in Computer Information Systems Web Development. To learn more about Carly's work experience, leadership, educational, volunteer history, & more please visit her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/carlycalabrese
Carly loves helping career seekers, business owners, and individuals through career coaching, business marketing, writing, editing, and consulting services. She is full of energy, optimism, and perseverance. A natural born leader, she ran two networking groups, one called the “Puyallup Job Club” which was a FREE networking group for job seekers, business owners, and business professionals that was open to the public and met monthly at the South Hill Library Conference Room in Puyallup, WA. Everyone who attended received a one minute commercial, job leads, training opportunities to improve one’s self from computer training to self-improvement, job seeker advice, volunteer and networking opportunities, free/low cost community events, activities, and “freebies” are shared. Career seekers/changers, those who are re-entering the work force, those looking for supplemental and/or retirement income, business owners, and business professionals attended. Carly spoke monthly at the Puyallup Job Club on a different career related topic, for example, resumes, cover letters, how to get a job using LinkedIn, interviewing to land your dream job, thank you letters after an interview, and MUCH more. For more information, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/PuyallupJobClub/
The other networking group Carly ran and started on her own is the “Puyallup Referral Masters” which met most months on a Saturday from noon to 1:30 pm. Business owners attended (career seekers and business professionals were also welcome). Everyone received a one minute commercial, business owners shared upcoming events in their business, we see how we can help each other in our businesses, testimonials, business cards, business flyers, and referrals are also passed. The group has been in existence since April 2016. For more information, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/UP-Referral-Masters/
Carly also performed routine seminars on how to market yourself to get a job, business, and how the benefits of a career coach/professional marketer can help enhance you in general. For more information, please visit: http://www.meetup.com/How-to-get-business-using-LinkedIn-seminar/
Carly has been successful in her business for 11 years, helping career seekers with career coaching, from determining what career path to take, writing resumes, cover letters, providing access to more job leads, interview question practice, creation and maintenance of LinkedIn profiles as well as individualized and group LinkedIn marketing training, and more! Carly’s helped business owners and individuals write bios, provide marketing consultations, research and write articles, blogs, website content, LinkedIn profiles, and providing assistance with writing and editing business documents and books!
Carly is also a freelance writer and has written for & been published in various publications including: Women's World Magazine (TWICE she's been published), Eatonville Dispatch (Newspaper), SouthSoundTalk.com, South Sound Magazine, the Federal Way Mirror (Newspaper), the Tacoma Art Group, Showcase Media Magazine, the Business Examiner, & the Puyallup Herald (Newspaper). Carly also wrote for Tacoma.com, an online business directory for a little over 3 years as well as sold website and online marketing for Tacoma.com, increased readership to Tacoma.com, and assisted web designers with writing web copy for client's web pages.
Carly is always looking to grow the freelance side of her business as well.
If you know of:
- A freelance writing or editing opportunity
- An editor/owner of a publication that would see the value in Carly's services
- A web designer (some web designers are also great leads for Carly) because they normally like to delegate out their web copy and SEO (search engine optimization) key word writing to writers such as Carly.
- Are in need of/know someone who is for any/all of the following: career assistance/career development/career coaching/career prep, business marketing, writing, editing, and LinkedIn services
- Or opportunity in general that would be of interest to Carly, please connect with her.
To get in contact with Carly, please email her through the form at her website (to ensure your email reaches her inbox) by clicking on the "Contact" button at the TOP of this page OR visiting this link to it: http://www.worksolutionstoday.com/contact.html or call her at: 360-981-7463 & feel free to leave a detailed voicemail. Thank you!