Susan Joyce

With an undergraduate degree in education, Susan P. Joyce made her first career adjustment just after graduation turning from teaching high school American history to the less stressful work of officer in the United States Marine Corps (career # 2).  Post-USMC (layoff # 1), and finding no demand in Boston for someone who could identify Soviet tanks and missile revetments, Susan made another career adjustment turning from intelligence gathering and analysis to HR and IT.  She spent several years working in the Personnel Office at Harvard University and in a compensation consulting firm.  After earning an MBA from Boston University, she spent 13 years in corporate America (career # 3) before being laid off (layoff # 2) in 1994, at the dawn of the Internet revolution.

Founding NETability, Inc. (career # 4) in 1995, Susan has been heavily involved in Web development and has taught and spoken about online job search, online recruiting, SEO, and Web development in numerous venues, including colleges, adult education, industry conferences, job search support groups, job clubs, and PodCamp.  In 1998, NETability acquired Job-Hunt.org, a well-known directory of Internet resources which Susan has been editing and growing since then.

Beginning in 2008, Susan has focused full-time on content development and management for Job-Hunt.org (career # 5).  Recognized as Forbes Best of the Web for Job Hunting since 2002 and singled out by US News & World Report in 2006 as a top site for finding work, Job-Hunt is one of the most comprehensive employment portals on the Web, a favorite of Richard (What Color Is Your Parachute) Bolles.  Job-Hunt offers job seekers links to over 17,000 employer recruiting pages, associations, networking resources, job search, and career resources.  In addition, Susan tweets to over 21,000 followers as @JobHuntOrg, manages the 4,000+ member Job-Hunt Help LinkedIn Group, runs several very popular Twitter Lists, and oversees BusinessWeek.com’s Business Exchange Veterans’ Job Search Topic.  In her spare time, Susan tries, usually unsuccessfully, to avoid her computer and BlackBerry.