Paul Lane is the founder and primary partner of The Employment Coach.

With over 15 years experience in human resources, and over 20 years in employment services, Paul Lane understands how to make a good impression with almost any employer.

"I have yet to have a single client who has been willing to do the work it takes to get a good job, who has not obtained employment that made them happy."

Rural, Small Town and Metropolitan Experience

Experienced working in both large cities and rural communities, I now focus primarily on the rural communities because they are much more difficult to work with.

Thousands have found work

Literally thousands of people have found employment by implementing my recommendations even when they have been unemployed and looking for a job for extended periods of time. Many of my clients have had major barriers to employment, such as having to make a career change, having no experience in the new career that they have selected, not speaking English, having disabilities, having little or no education, having felony convictions, having a history of substance abuse and/or having had a very negative work history.

Paul follows his own advice

Beginning with my first job, which was washing dishes at a local IHOP, I have not followed the "normal" the way of finding employment. I did not fill out an application until after the interview for that job or many other jobs. I have hardly ever been a fully qualified person when I started each job and most of my employers have trained me extensively (and have been happy with the investment). I have had between 18 and 21 careers, depending how one defines a career, and I have enjoyed and done well at nearly all of them. I have had only two advertised jobs. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, both of those jobs were the worst jobs of my life.

Let me illustrate

How difficult would it be to obtain a job with a state agency, when the following conditions existed

• There was a state hiring freeze in place. That means that they could not hire anybody who was not already a state employee (which I was not).
• There were no openings at the office in which I wish to be employed.
• They had no work that needed to be done that was not already being done; all positions were filled with competent employee
• There was a state hiring freeze in place. That means that they could not hire anybody who was not already a state employee (which I was not).
• There were no openings at the office in which I wish to be employed.
• There was no money to hire anybody, if there had been an opening.
• They had no work that needed to be done that was not already being done; all positions were filled with competent employees.

Yet, after less than a five-minute interview with the assistant manager, I was offered a job, and was working two weeks later. They did not have a job for me to do. They didn't have a desk for me. I had a small filing cabinet on wheels that I drug around with me, wherever I found work t. then I was able to start two special programs (that I loved doing), because they had to justify the payroll.

The second state job I obtained (at a 16% raise in salary), I did not even fill out an application until after the interview and my new boss said, "you'll have to fill this out so we can put you on the payroll." One of my new co-workers had asked his boss to interview me. I was interviewed not only by the boss, but by every single person who worked in the office.

I put my job-finding process to work for me, and thousands of my clients and friends. Let me help you.