Tough Times Require New Attention Grabbing Tools For Job Seekers - AdvancingWomen.com Meets The Challenge

(PRLEAP.COM) Today, AdvancingWomen.com, http://www.advancingwomen.com, a top career and business site for women professionals, is introducing Professional Online Career Portfolios to help jobseekers and professionals grab attention and to graphically showcase their strengths, value and accomplishments to employers or potential clients.

Gretchen Glasscock, President and CEO of AdvancingWomen.com, an expert on women’s career and business issues, says: " I can see first hand the results on workers of the melt down in the financial and housing markets. Many professionals are having to transition their careers, find new jobs, start freelancing or even try to start their own businesses. What they all need is visibility; to make their achievements and value stand out from the crowd so they can move on and create their next opportunity. I believe Professional Online Career Portfolios can accelerate that process for them."

Professional Online Career Portfolios are individual websites, that are customized in depth with rich media, graphics, photos and charts to highlight a professional’s skills, accomplishments, affiliations and value to prospective clients, employers or speakers’ bureaus. Each portfolio is designed to create a powerful impression of one’s achievements and builds a permanent, valuable asset that can be linked to social networking sites, viewed collaboratively with a potential client or employer, and which promotes an individual now and throughout her career.

With this new product, Glasscock expands her commitment to supporting women’s career and business advancement. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of National Association of Women Business Owners ( NAWBO-San Antonio). She has participated in, spoken at and collaborated with various organizations including The Women in Americas Forum at the White House , where she helped increase economic development for women in the Americas; The Women in Leadership International Summit in Brussels where she taught European women business owners how to leverage technology to increase profits. Glasscock’s career and business articles have been featured in Fortune 500 companies like Citibank, Hearst and publications such as the Cambridge University Press and other publications in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Canada, India and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over 2 million. Glasscock also served as financial news editor for Hearst’s MoneyMinded.com/Woman.com.

Professional Online Career Portfolios are available online today at both a platinum and a gold level, depending on how much professional support is needed to customize a portfolio.

AdvancingWomen.com is the first website to help women break through the "glass ceiling", providing career and business strategy, tools and resources to support women’s career, business and leadership goals, and work-life balance issues, featuring a targeted job board at http://Careers.Advancing women.com and Professional Online Career Portfolios (http://www.advancingwomen.com/career_portfolios/professional_career_portfolios.html)

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