Who is Head Coach and Founder – Howard J. Cattie, Jr

Howard has had over 30 years of Career Coaching, Recruiting, Sales and Sales Management experience before founding CareerOyster LLC. While he has been a hiring manager for most of that time, his real passion has been in helping individuals identify their longer term goals and position themselves to get there.  He has extensive experience in coaching jobseekers  and recruiters in effective career planning, resume writing, interview coaching and job closing strategies.  He has trained over 400 recruiters and thousands of candidates in job seeking techniques with a true specialty in candidate interview preparation. 

Howard has also been a Senior Career Consultant with the Frontier Group.  Prior to that he founded and managed Custom Recruiting Services for 11 years, a specialized recruiting firm for Technology and Technology Sales and Marketing professionals.  Howard was also an Executive in three national Recruiting and Staffing organizations: Source Services, Romac International (now Kforce) and Norrell (now Spherion).

His search specialties have included Sales and Marketing, IT, Engineering and Accounting. Howard has run offices and regions throughout the

Education:

MS in Computer Engineering from 

MBA in Marketing from

BS in Engineering Physics from St Joseph’s University

CareerOyster provides online career and job transition coaching to help executives and professionals direct their careers throughout their working lives. Services include resume help, interviewing help, job leads and customized career coaching via multimedia products. The theme of the company is simple:

"The world is your Oyster….. be the pearl".