Mary Ellen Slayter
Career Advisor and Senior Editor, SmartBrief
Mary Ellen Slayter is senior editor of SmartBrief on Your Career. Before joining SmartBrief, she wrote The Washington Post's Career Tracks column for 8 years. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in agronomy from Louisiana State University. That means she can correct the pH of your lawn, as well as the typos on your resume.