Ellen Gordon Reeves, Author

Ellen Gordon Reeves is the author of the best-selling Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?  A Crash Course in Finding, Landing, and Keeping Your First Real Job (www.caniwearmynosering.com).  A career and workplace expert, she is a frequent guest on national media including CNN, The CBS Early Show and Moneywatch, @KatieCouric, and NPR. Trained in comedy writing and improvisation at Second City, Reeves advises job hunters of all ages how to present themselves professionally. Her interactive workshops offer direct constructive criticism from the employer’s point of view. Topics include Extreme Professional Makeover: Boot Camp for Job Hunters, Do-It-Yourself Professional Development: Making Your Workplace Work for You, Avoiding Artificial Dissemination: Networking Do’s and Don’ts and the Art of Authentic Connecting, The Interviewer’s Hidden Agenda: What He or She Will Never Tell You, and Women and Women of Color in the Workplace: Gender, Cultural Difference and Diversity in Career Advancement. She currently consults to programs including the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia’s School of Journalism and Baruch’s Master’s in Financial Engineering, re-packaging students for the job market. President of the Harvard Alumni Association, Reeves holds a BA from Harvard-Radcliffe in French and American History and Literature, a Masters in Writing from Northeastern University, and a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is producing a cookbook with Parisian Chef Yves Camdeborde and a play about Academy Award-winning WWII survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein (www.gerdaslieutenant.com). Reeves was Executive/Education Editor at The New Press (a non-profit publisher in the public interest) and creator of Talk Show, a live performance in NYC.  She has been a blogger for Learnvest.com and Jobs for Change at Change.org. She may be reached at caniwearmynosering@gmail.com.