Chloë Ember Benjamin Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, NC, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

• At Duke's Pratt School of Engineering to coach students studying topics that include Climate & Sustainability Engineering, Engineering Management, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical.
• Engaged hundreds of students yearly in meaningful job searches through strengths-based coaching conversations, resume and cover letter writing, internship and job search strategy, international career planning.
• Initiated an annual cross-disciplinary alumni panel titled 'How to Make Your Employer Love and Want to Keep You,' reaching 100+ students per year, fostering networking and strengthening employer-student relationships.
• Co-create and teach EGR 590 - Career Strategy & Design to Master's in Engineering Management students
• Team Lead for Social Impact and Sustainability careers. Liaise with departments and student organizations to help students engage in opportunities for careers in clean energy, climate tech, and sustainability.
• Facilitate workshops and coaching sessions utilizing the Gallup Clifton Strengths assessment to help students and staff identify and maximize their talents.

• CounselorChloe.com was founded in 2015 in Morocco and has relocated to the USA. It hosts a blog and offers consulting and coaching services with education and non-profit focuses. Only taking one client per year, max.
• Serve as Director of Student Services for a non-profit that serves counseling and career services in schools, part-time. * Evaluated comprehensive school counseling program implementations for more than 20 schools.
• Wrote career workshops for a US-AID funded program to help Moroccan graduate school students prepare for the international labor market, in partnership with a contractor for the US Embassy.
• Provided research-based predictions on upcoming trends in school counseling for a multi-million dollar endowment seeking to revise its grant funding requirements for schools.
• Provided high school and college admissions counseling.
• Led the development and submission of grant apps winning 5 of 6 school systems grants ranging from approximately $100-300K per district, funding counseling and Social Emotional Learning.

This group is affiiliated with the Raleigh Chapter of the International Coaching Federation. * Researched and wrote a collaborative whitepaper looking at evidence-based research on the best practices of coaching within higher education settings. That whitepaper is now on the ICF Raleigh website. * Served as a member of the campus leadership team for.

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• In this role, I coached and provided career counseling to undergraduate, graduate, and international students, as well as NCAA student-athletes, supporting meaningful life transitions. Tasks included:
• Coached students through career development and pre-grad advising, discussing career fields, planning, timelines, career assessments, resume and cover letter writing, LinkedIn optimization, interviewing, networking.
• Liaises with Student-Athlete Development, offering targeted career development counseling and workshops to hundreds of NCAA athletes.
• Partnered with students on applications for UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and other selective programs.
• Wrote weekly career content for Tar Heel Times Student-Athlete Newsletter reaching 800+ students.
• Collaborated on 2 ICF Higher Education Coaching Groups on Leadership and Publishing, as well as with the Carolina Career Community conference and professional development planning committee.

Stanford, CA, US

• Stanford Online High School is listed as a top-ranked school in the US News & World Report. I joined during startup phase, and helped restructure an advising program into a comprehensive school counseling program, and.
• Counseled US and international students in grades 7-12 both online and in-person.
• Assisted students with adapting to the accelerated online environment present in the Online High School (OHS).
• Designed online curriculum and taught study skills.
• Ran a summer-session in-person career identity workshop to help students pick high school courses and student activities that fit with their personality and ambitions.
• Worked with students, parents and instructors to ensure students achieved their academic goals.

• When Kaiser Permanente eliminated an entire position, the SEIU United Healthcare Worker's Education Fund brought me on to help individuals through a challenging career transition. In this 1-year role I provided a range.
• Counseled adult health-industry workers on going back to college and changing careers.
• Provided career education and academic advising to a caseload of about 150 students.
• Evaluated transcripts to determine college course and program prerequisite eligibility.
• Collaborated on committees to develop a financial aid workshop, identify hiring trends, establish ethical confidentiality procedures, and to create an editorial style guide.

Chapel Hill, NC, US

• In 2008-2009 I was offered the sole graduate assistantship for the UNC-Chapel Hill School Counseling Program. I was responsible for coordinating graduate admissions for the program. Duties included:
• Coordinated Recruitment of students into the School Counseling program.
• Arranged interviews for applicants, and provided them information on the program.
• Evaluated curriculum to ensure courses fulfilled updated standards from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and the American School Counselor Association (ASCA).

• For 24 hours per week during the school year, I served as a counselor intern and was trusted with counseling all students, grades 9-12, at Cedar Ridge High School. Accomplishments included:
• Counseled students in the academic, career, and personal domains, helping students with 4-year, college, and life planning.
• Ran groups on Career Counseling for ESL students, and College for EC Students.
• Scheduled students in classes, and helped admit new students into the school.

Emeryville, California, US

• This was my final role in an online advertising career path before making a major transition. I worked full-time while taking counseling classes at night. As an Onlined Media Specialist, I managed a multi-million.
• Built media plans to spend a tech advertiser’s multi-million dollar budget.
• Coordinated with clients and vendors to ensure creative materials were delivered accurately and on time.
• Produced and analyzed reports to optimize advertising campaigns.

New York, New York, US

• At Vibrant Media I was hired as a keyword optimizer and promoted to Senior Knowledge Engineer. My favorite part of this role involved developing people, which helped lead me toward a career transition bringing me into.
• Classified and organized taxonomic linguistic data into scalable, thematic categories, and managed systems to organize complicated information, utilizing excel functions to simplify complicated data mining tasks.
• Hired, trained, and managed a team of six employees in San Francisco and New York.
• Designed tests for hiring new staff, compiled training materials, and documented software processes on company intranet.
• Synthesized data and industry trends in order to set team priorities.
• Collaborated with Ad Trafficking, Business Development, and Ad Operations, and Quality Assurance Teams to ensure taxonomy development met inter-departmental needs.

New York, NY, US

• For this publishing company, my main role was to promote computer programming books, and organize publishing conferences and author roundtables. Tasks here included:
• Wrote press releases and other marketing copy, and managed an AdWords campaign for this computer book publisher.
• Handled correspondence with book reviewers and computer user groups.
• Tracked marketing activities in Microsoft Excel.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Hired on a "special operations" contracted team of 6 to manage Google Tier 1 client ad campaigns with a special touch. In this role, tasks included.
• Wrote creative advertisements for premium clients including the top match-making website in the world, and a major international airline company.
• Compiled Cost-Per-Click (CPC) keyword lists for Google AdWords campaigns, using VLOOKUP and CONCATENATE functions to manipulate data, and online tools to identify common search trends.
• Analyzed performance metrics and made changes ensuring campaign success.

Cary, NC, US

• Summer internship after graduating working for a railroad software company doing technical writing and editing.
• Edited and re-formatted technical manuals for this railroad software company.
• Prepped documents for single-source integration into newer software.
• Designed covers for CD versions of company tech manuals.

• Learned the ins and outs of launching a magazine publishing business while working for Cheryl Woodard, publishing consultant and co-founder of PC World, Macworld, and the annual Macworld Expos, and author of a book on.
• Investigated trends in publishing market to strategize business plans.
• Edited contracts and correspondence for clients, and website articles.
• Managed website, adding and editing content.

• While taking college classes at night, by day I worked at Yack.com, an entertainment website that was successful before the dot-com crisis. I was a writer, editor, and website tester. Accomplishments here included:
• Created and edited blurbs for more than 2,000 Internet radio stations worldwide.
• Created short articles about Entertainment happenings.
• Tested beta-stage software and webpages for functionality.

US

• AmeriCorps was fundamental in developing my work values, and instilled in me a passion for public service. In this role, I worked on an environmental team, and I only left this field out of fear that long term the.
• Participated in environmental revitalization projects in disadvantaged communities.
• Conducted planning and fund-raising, got community involved, and gathered people to implement a garden at my former elementary school.
• Tutored Computer, English and History courses at Berkeley High Computer Academy.

Master Of Education - Med, School Counseling

B.A. In Journalism With A Focus In Multimedia Studies, Minor In Anthropology, Multimedia

High School And University Transfer Coursework, Anthropology