Lucy Cherkasets Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Ready To Succeed is a Career Accelerator that empowers talented college students impacted by foster care graduate college, launch successful careers, and reach their full potential. By connecting students to career development tools, job opportunities and meaningful relationships we are ensuring that they are career-ready. Our RTS scholars are a unique group of motivated students who’ve managed to beat the odds and are all attending top four-year schools. Our students have overcome incredible adversity. Getting into college, however, is just the first step on their path. Our students have to think ahead, build out their professional networks and gain critical internship experience so they can hit the ground running and be gainfully employed shortly after graduation. With the support of mentors, career resources and access to competitive internships and entry level jobs, RTS scholars are given back their chance to dream big and achieve.

New York, Ny

LCM Group specialized in providing human resources tools and guidance to companies under 250 employees, including clients in PR/Communications, e-commerce, real estate, retail, fashion, not-for-profits, and media industries.LCM Group helped clients avoid HR hassles, reduce unemployment and other legal claims and payouts, raise the integrity of your organization, and comply with ever-changing government guidelines. Fluent in New York State employment laws. Proficient in California legal guidelines. LCM not only set up company HR structures but also trained company owners and managers to better understand the HR principles guiding employment laws, company procedures, and employee benefits. HR Procedures/Systems Set-Up Employee AuditsEmployee Handbooks TerminationsEmployee Performance Management Recruiting Employee Relations Department of Labor & Unemployment Investigations/Audits

Greater Los Angeles Area

As Clarity's West Coast Bureau Chief based in Los Angeles, I was responsible for growing the company’s presence in SoCal and other West Coast regions. Clarity Media Group is a top communications firm that helps everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs to job candidates bring clarity to their ideas through presentation, speech and media training as well as job interview coaching. Our firm works with top clients across sectors from technology to finance, lifestyle to fashion and consumer to corporate. Some of the clients who rely on our coaching expertise include Facebook, Airbnb, Comcast/NBCUniversal, AMC, Burberry, L'Oreal and many more.

New York | Los Angeles

I created Clarity Media Group’s job interview coaching division in 2010 by applying Clarity’s methodology and my 15 years of human resources/recruiting expertise to job interview preparation. Interviewing for a job is hard! It is unnatural to talk about ourselves, let alone promote ourselves in a distinctive way. I adapted the same training methods that Clarity Media Group uses to coach executives of Fortune 500 companies like Facebook, Airbnb, Conde Nast and Estee Lauder, for everyday job seekers. This tried and true method, that hundreds of executives have used to improve their communications, job seekers can use to nail an interview for their dream job. I have helped candidates develop their narrative and interview skills. I have worked with everyone from seniors in college looking for their first job to senior executives with 20+ years of experience seeking their next opportunity. After working with me, clients have receiving offers from companies such as Apple, Google, and Bank of America, as well as top PR/media companies, Masters programs, and selective volunteer organizations. I have been a contributing coach to Ramit Sethi’s “Dream Job Boot Camp” series. I was also featured in Self magazine and the book Pitch Perfect by communications expert, and Clarity Media Group founder, Bill McGowan.

New York, Ny

As Clarity’s Executive Director, I oversaw all of the firm’s operations in New York and was responsible for transforming Clarity into a global company, spearheading expansion of training resources into Europe and Asia Pacific regions. - Developed hundreds of professional training and development programs for Fortune 500 companies, from technology to finance, lifestyle to fashion and consumer to corporate.- Managed 12 coaches across four cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Singapore. - On-boarded new coaches, including training the on Clarity’s methodologies.- Increased company profitability by 20-25% annually (2013-2015).- Improved our operating efficiency, trained support staff, and grew our stable of trainers. - Conceived and executed an annual company meeting for our entire coaching staff to gather for training development, strategy and goal setting, and team bonding. The event is on its third year and going strong! - Oversaw launch and marketing of Clarity founder Bill McGowan’s first book “Pitch Perfect.” Look for my job interview tips in the book. I am also the founder of Clarity’s career coaching division, where I have helped numerous job candidates get their dream jobs through resume review, interview prep, practice and execution.

London, United Kingdom

PRCo is an international luxury travel, goods and services media relations agency with offices in London, New York, Paris, Milan, Munich, Moscow and Dubai.• Created and implemented all HR systems and employee management for a global luxury travel public relations firm across seven offices• Launched first company handbook and client activity tracking system in all offices • Relaunched the Moscow office leading to 50% growth in accounts: replaced over 80% of the staff, lead PR training, set up all operational systems

New York, Ny

LaForce+ Stevens is a prestigious NYC Public Relations firm specializing in fashion, lifestyle, consumer, beauty and other client sectors. Responsibilities included: • Managed 80-100 full-time and freelance employees for a public relations/marketing firm• Responsible for doubling staff-size and launching Los Angeles office • Employee recruitment and placement: interviewed, hired, set-up and trained new employees• Performance reviews: created new review system, implemented salary and raise structure• Benefit administration: managed health, dental and 401(k) plans, COBRA, payroll• Employee relations: counseled employees on office policies, mediated employee and supervisor matters

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