About
Orville Pierson is the author of The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search (McGraw-Hill) and Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job (Career Press).
These books have attracted the attention of business executives, colleges and universities, B-schools, and church jobs programs, as well as the media and a very diverse group of ordinary people. As a result, Orville has an increasing number of author appearances, interviews, projects and talks.
Orville is also 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 services include Leadership Consulting, Executive Coaching, Career Management training and Career Transition (outplacement). It is wholly owned by Adecco SA, a global employment services firm with 5800 offices in 68 countries.
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 2,000, and trains consultants in career counseling, coaching, and consulting.