Bob Gonet, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

🔹 Bob is a career management and outplacement consultant. He advises C-suite executives, managers and professional individual contributors from a wide range of industries through their career transitions. What's unique about Bob is that he is extremely skilled at helping his clients enhance their selling power and increase/streamline their networking activity for the ultimate purpose of landing fulfilling jobs.

🔹 Worked closely with and successfully developed and delivered the following programs for several New England companies: Customized Interviewing Strategies: Hiring the Right People, SMART Goal Setting & Getting, Employee Engagement, Retaining Quality Staff, Developing Emerging Leaders, Creating Positive Change, How to Mentor, Tactfully Holding Staff Accountable, Talent Identification, Train the Trainer, Creating a Vision, Employee Care, Performance Evaluations, and How to be a One Minute Coach🔹 Customized and delivered Behavioral Interviewing & Hiring programs for multiple organizations which included: specifically tailored questions per job description, a step-by-step, easy-to-implement methodology, effective ways how interviewers prepare for interviews, and a strategic method how to evaluate candidates so they can hire the right people and frankly "Hire Smart."🔹 Increased Service Department sales and Service Advisor productivity by developing a performance enhancement program and teaching pre- and post-goal accountability techniques to 2 Service Department Directors.🔹 Developed and administered a comprehensive pre- and post-employee satisfaction leadership survey, created employee care trainings and a coaching methodology which increased employee satisfaction scores by an average of 20%. 🔹 Created a tighter and more deliberate accountability process for Sales Management teams that helped them consistently obtain high Net Promoter scores and a ‘green’ customer satisfaction index scores. 🔹 Helped retain 100% of the sales staff in the wake of the company losing one of its major revenue-producing hospitality sites which also led to the same staff generating a record $250,000 in 3 days. 🔹 Achieved a 98.6% retention rate by developing and working closely with 75 nurses who were thinking of leaving the company by empowering them in the decision making process.

Massachusetts

🔹 Coached and trained various "working" executives in leadership and talent development, organizational effectiveness, staff retention, collaborative planning, vision articulation, obtaining team buy in, sharing credit, and communicating with impact.🔹 Coached, led, and inspired over 3,000 clients to land fulfilling jobs. Expertise in tactfully and assertively holding my clients accountable that helps enhance their selling power and streamline their networking activity in the successful pursuit of landing fulfilling jobs🔹 Facilitated executive and middle management roundtable discussions centered on job search strategies and techniques. 🔹 Counseled my clients through company workforce reductions, layoffs, downsizing etc. Emphases on overcoming rejection, financial/severance planning, goal setting, proactively taking the initiative. Consistently converted clients’ own self-assessments from a lack of confidence to a sense of certainty and value 🔹 Developed client negotiation strategies from a position of strength via distilled results/benefits they can provide, contributions they can immediately make, analyzing job offers

Bridgewater, Ma

🔹 Developed a practical Career Counseling curriculum for graduate students🔹 Taught, tested, and graded graduate students

Providence, Ri

🔹 Coached and trained thousands of clients ranging from Students to Administrative Support to Middle Management to Executive. Focus areas included: career identification, resume development, cover letters, marketing plan, networking, interviewing, and negotiating🔹 Delivered several career development modules which include: internal perspectives (skills, interests, values, accomplishments, results, differentiators), career mapping, resume development, interviewing strategies, campaign correspondence, negotiation techniques, strategic networking

Dartmouth, Ma

🔹 Led a staff of 8 full-time professionals and a student staff of 75. Managed a multi-functional facility/student union consisting of student offices, cafeterias, main auditorium, ticket center, games rooms, and a sunset room. Additional responsibilities included: managing an operating budget, developing student union policies and procedures, rewriting employee manuals, interviewing, hiring, and firing, and performance evaluations.

Ph.D, Leadership And Administration

M.Ed., Counseling

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Activities and Societies: Scored 1230 points in basketball career (formerly SMU)