ABOUT US
This website is owned and operated by Pierson
Consulting Associates, LLC. It has no connection with Lee
Hecht Harrison, LLC.
Coaching and Consulting Services
Orville Pierson, the author of The Unwritten
Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search, also offers
consulting services on job search assistance programs to not-for-profit
organizations and coaching for volunteers working in those
programs.
For more information, e-mail us at services@highlyeffectivejobsearch.com
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About
Orville Pierson
Orville Pierson is currently Senior
Vice President, Corporate Director of Program Design
and Service Delivery for Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a
$200 million career services company with 240 offices
worldwide. LHH is wholly owned by Adecco SA, a multi-billion
dollar global employment services firm with 5800 offices
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Orville creates books, Websites and videos
to teach career management and job search to LHH’s clients,
who are mostly unemployed and number up to 100,000 per year.
He also designs training materials for LHH’s staff of
3,000, and trains consultants in career counseling, coaching,
and consulting.
He is the sole or principal author of dozens
of LHH publications, including:
Executive Directions: Creating Options
in Life and Work, a 250-page career management book.
Packaged in a leatherette slipcase for senior executives,
it covers executive job change, entrepreneurship as a career
option, portfolio careering, and 21st century “retirement”
approaches for high-achieving people.
Managing Your Search Project,
a 300-page comprehensive job search guide for people in the
$40,000 to $100,000 income bracket. This book and its predecessor,
LHH’s Career Transition, have been used by over 800,000
private clients in job search. The book has accompanying CD’s,
video, and Website.
The Road to Entrepreneurship,
a guidebook for first-time entrepreneurs. This publication,
and its companion private website, LHHstartbiz.com, won the
HR Executive magazine award as a “best new HR product.”
Leading Job Search Work Teams and
The Job Search Productivity Seminar, both leaders’
guides for LHH programs globally. These two programs broke
new ground in career services and have been highly successful
for over a decade.
What’s Next? A Road Map for
Exploring the Rest of Your Life, a guidebook for
the Baby Boom generation on how to create better life balance
in their so-called “retirement” years, whether
they choose to work or not.
With LHH since 1992, Orville has trained
hundreds of LHH consultants in the US and UK. In 1991, prior
to joining LHH, Orville created the job search assistance
methodology now called the Pierson
Method and Job
Search Work Teams while working as an independent consultant.
Earlier, he worked for a number of other career services firms,
designing programs and providing one-to-one and group training
services.
In addition to his half-time position at
LHH, Orville operates Pierson Consulting Associates and does
volunteer work with not-for-profit organizations. He has been
in the career services field since 1977 as a program and process
designer, author, speaker and facilitator as well as consultant
and career coach to hundreds of private clients. His education
includes a 1965 BA from Yale University, three years at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and certification in psychological
instruments used in career assessment.
