On the following pages are examples of some of the creative ways slashes in the book have handled their resumes, biographies, and Web pages. The opportunities for innovative slash presentations are limitless, but these samples should give you some idea of what others have done.
Angela Williams, a corporate lawyer/Baptist minister, uses both narrative and resume formats. Narratives are perfect for when she is invited to give a speech or appear at an event. Resumes are best for a job interview or for any time someone wants to get a more detailed inventory of everything she has done, in chronological order. Note that in the resume, the focus is on her legal and leadership positions, whereas her work in the church community is listed under “Community Activities and Affiliations.” Her narrative bio addresses her slash in the first sentence. The bio also includes a photograph of Williams, something she decided to add because she is a frequent public speaker and is generally asked to provide a photograph along with her bio when she arranges speaking engagements.
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Angela F. Williams is bi-vocational—she is both an ordained Baptist minister and a corporate lawyer. In 2001, the New York Times and L Magazine featured her in articles about people who pursue two full-time professions. Currently, Ms. Williams is the Interfaith Liaison for the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, a nonprofit organization formed to provide critically needed donations to assist the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. In this capacity, she is responsible for understanding the impact of Katrina on the faith community and overseeing the processing of $20 million in grants to rebuild houses of worship. As part of this effort, she is working with the Interfaith Advisory Committee, comprised of religious leaders appointed by Presidents Bush and Clinton and co-chaired by former Congressman William H. Gray and Bishop T.D. Jakes.
Ms. Williams recently served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of Litigation & Government Relations for Sears Holdings Corporation. Prior to that, she was Sears’ Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer, responsible for ensuring that ethical practices and policies were developed, embedded and enforced. As the Chief of Litigation, Ms. Williams, along with a team of 20 professionals, had ultimate responsibility for the management of several thousand cases. These cases ranged from asbestos claims to real estate disputes, premises and consumer product liability, environmental litigation, general commercial litigation and class actions involving labor disputes, SEC matters and shareholder derivate suits.
As the Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer, she reported regularly to the Audit Committee of the Board, CEO and General Counsel on matters related to internal investigations, ethics violations and the status of the compliance program. She designed and implemented Sears’ compliance program within her first five months of employment. As a business lawyer, she managed legal services for the $2.6 billion Home Services business and the $380 million Credit and Financial Products business.
Her legal background includes practicing law with Bryan Cave LLP, as Special Counsel on Criminal Law to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on his Senate Judiciary Committee staff, Department of Justice prosecutor with the National Church Arson Task Force, federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, and in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps.
Ms. Williams currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of Christian Service Charities (CSC) (www.christianservicecharities.org), a federation that facilitates access and marketing in Workplace Giving Campaigns on behalf of nearly 70 Christian charities nationwide. CSC also serves as the “management consulting arm” for 3 federation partners in the areas of medical research and human service charities. On behalf of all four federation members, annual revenues total $20 million from the Combined Federal Campaign, through United Way campaigns and in state and local campaigns.
She is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. This program seeks to develop our next generation of community-spirited leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of corporate and civic leadership in the 21st century by honing their skills in values-based leadership. Each year 20 Crown Fellows are chosen from among young executives and professionals who have already achieved considerable success in the private or public sector.
Her educational degrees include a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia where she was an Echols Scholar, a Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law and a Master of Divinity, cum laude, from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University.
She lives in Chicago with her husband Roderick Williams, who is an Executive Director (Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin) with Prison Fellowship.
Terence Bradford is an investment manager by day and rapper by night. As a rapper, he goes by the name Billy Shakes. The following bio of Billy Shakes appears on the Web site www.bshakes.com. It tells the story of the two worlds Bradford/Shakes travels between, and it does it in language that evokes the voice of a hip-hop artist.
Bonnie Duncan, a dancer/teacher/puppeteer, uses a combined resume to present her various slashes. For Duncan, there is no reason to hide the various things she does, as they all complement one another nicely. As an artist, Duncan is well served by a resume that takes a creative approach to layout and design.
Dr. Roald Hoffman, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist, has a full writing life outside of his work in the sciences. His Web site— www.roaldhoffmann.com—opens with the line “Welcome to Roald Hoffmann’s land between chemistry, poetry and philosophy,” a fitting introduction to his many passions. Under the “biography” link, visitors can choose between a “short,” “medium,” or “long” bio. The short bio is reproduced here. If you want more details about his scientific life, or about his plays, poetry, and other writings, there are links for each of those too. Though a bio can cite Hoffmann’s accomplishments and interests, a Web site is really the only way to present a more detailed look at his work.
Welcome to Roald Hoffmann’s land between chemistry, poetry and philosophy.
Biography:
Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Zloczow, Poland. Having survived the war, he came to the U.S. in 1949, and studied chemistry at Columbia and Harvard Universities (Ph.D. 1962). Since 1965 he is at Cornell University, now as the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters. He has received many of the honors of his profession, including the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with Kenichi Fukui).
“Applied theoretical chemistry” is the way Roald Hoffmann likes to characterize the particular blend of computations stimulated by experiment and the construction of generalized models, of frameworks for understanding, that is his contribution to chemistry.
Dr. Hoffmann is also a writer of essays, non-fiction, poems and plays. Two of his poetry collections, The Metamict State (1987) and Gaps and Verges (1990), have been published by the University Presses of Florida; Memory Effects was published in 1999 by the Calhoun Press of Columbia College, Chicago. At the end of 2002 two poetry collections were published by Roald Hoffmann: Soliton, by Truman State University Press, and a volume of selected poems translated into Spanish, Catalísta.
In 1993 the Smithsonian Institution Press published Chemistry Imagined.A unique art/science/literature collaboration of Roald Hoffmann with artist Vivian Torrence, Chemistry Imagined reveals the creative and humanistic sparks of the molecular science. Spanish and Korean translations will appear soon. In 1995, Columbia University Press published The Same and Not the Same, a thoughtful account of the dualities that lie under the surface of chemistry. There are German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Russian editions of this book, which has won a number of awards. In 1997 W.H. Freeman published Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition, by Roald Hoffmann and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt, a book of the intertwined voices of science and religion. This book will be translated into Italian and Spanish. Dr. Hoffmann is also the presenter of a television course, The World of Chemistry, aired on many PBS stations and abroad.
The play Oxygen, by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann, premiered in the U.S. at the San Diego Repertory Theatre in 2001 and has had productions in London, East Lansing, MI, Madison, WI, Columbus, OH, Germany, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, and Toronto. Oxygen has been translated into many languages; it will be published in 2004 in Brazil in Portuguese by Lent and Vieira.
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When innkeepers Michael Franco and Diane Curry, a married couple, decided to apply for a job as resident managers of a property in the Caribbean, they created a joint resume to show off their talents as a team. Since they both have other lives in the advertising field, they used their creative skills to come up with a unique document to showcase their shared experience as well as their personalities.
Deborah Epstein Henry is a lawyer/consultant who focuses on work/life issues. As a lawyer, which is how she began her career, she had a traditional resume documenting her education, positions, and experience. Once her speaking and consulting practice grew, however, she realized that people were only interested in seeing a bio. Note that Henry’s bio mentions the fact that she is the mother of three young children. In light of her work, which focuses primarily on work/family issues affecting lawyers and law firms, her being a parent is as important as any of her other credentials.
Deborah Epstein Henry is the Founder and President of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a networking and support organization with a mailing list of over 1,800 lawyers who work a flexible and/or reduced schedule or seek a resource on work/life and women’s issues in New York and Philadelphia. The mission of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC is to empower lawyers seeking work/life balance by: 1. providing support and career guidance; 2. facilitating networking; and 3. sharing information to effect change.
Debbie has garnered press coverage for her work in the area of work/life balance in the law from The New York Times, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and Radio Times, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, ABA Journal, Philadelphia Business Journal, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Legal Intelligencer, Working Mother, Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Philadelphia Lawyer, The Pennsylvania Lawyer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Bencher, The Scarsdale Inquirer, Workforce Management, The Southampton Press, The Woman Advocate, Big Apple Parent, and Philadelphia Bar Reporter.
Debbie is a commercial litigator and Of Counsel to the Philadelphia-based law firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. Debbie also is a consultant. She focuses on the issues of work/life balance and attorney retention, with a particular emphasis on retaining and promoting women lawyers. Debbie has an expertise in making flexible and reduced schedules and work/life balance a win-win situation for lawyers as well as their employers and clients. Her consulting approach includes: 1. drafting and analyzing part-time policies and providing recommendations to decision makers; 2. conducting individual sessions with management, partners, associates, administrators and/or committees to assess gender, diversity and work/life problem areas and solutions; 3. creating and furthering diversity and women’s initiatives; and, 4. facilitating and leading seminars that provide strategies for improving the retention, promotion and overall status and satisfaction of women at their places of employment.
Debbie has experience counseling law firms, corporations and thousands of individual lawyers; speaking nationally in public forums; and, running nearly 100 Flex-Time Lawyers LLC meetings on these issues. She was named a 2004 Pennsylvania Lawyer on the Fast Track by American Lawyer Media. Debbie served on the “Hidden Brain Drain” Task Force for the Center for Work-Life Policy, which focuses on the retention and promotion of women and minorities. She is a consultant to the New York State Bar Association Special Committee on Balanced Lives in the Law.
She received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and her J.D. cum laude from Brooklyn Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Jacob Mishler in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Debbie is married and the mother of three boys, ages 10, 8 and 4. For more information, please visit www.flextime lawyers.com.
For nearly twenty years Ann Guttman has maintained two full-blown careers, as a Realtor and a professional musician. The two complement each other nicely and Guttman has always been open about the importance of each of her careers. So open, in fact, that the bio she uses for her real estate work begins with a reference to her life in music. Interestingly, her bio also mentions her husband, who has his own slash as a psychoanalyst/musician/musical director of a band. As a Realtor, Guttman has found that revealing these kinds of details makes her more interesting to clients.
Ann Robinson Guttman began playing the French horn relatively late in life, while a theater major at Pennsylvania State University. After graduating from Penn State, Ann continued her musical studies at the Yale School of Music, earning her Master’s Degree in 1978. The next year, Ann got her first job as a French horn player in New York City playing with the Bolshoi Ballet, and she soon became an active presence in the city’s musical life, playing in Broadway shows and on stage in Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Ann has been a part of the New York City Opera Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Long Island Philharmonic, and she has performed with the New York Philharmonic. Though New York City has been her home for 26 years, music has taken Ann around the globe, from Europe to the Far East, and she’s played with some of the finest musicians in the world, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Kurt Masur, James Levine, Placido Domingo, Kathleen Battle, and Marilyn Horne.
In 1984, when Ann became the chairperson of the Sales and Sublets Committee of the co-op where she lived, the excitement of real estate captivated her. In January 1992, a growing real estate company then known as Hunt Kennedy welcomed Ann to its roster of agents. Adding real estate pursuits to a busy music schedule, Ann quickly became a top producer in Hunt Kennedy’s Westside office. In the ensuing years, she gained great experience in both “up” and “down” markets, selling coops and condominiums in every price range in every neighborhood of Manhattan. In September 2005, Ann was named Vice President and manager of the downtown office of Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy.
Ann resides on the Upper West Side with her husband, Steve, and their two dogs, Bam and Annabella. Steve is a musician who plays jazz trumpet and has been Musical Director of Blood, Sweat & Tears for the last 20 years. He is also a licensed psychoanalyst. Steve and Ann were married atop the Empire State Building on New Year’s Day, 1992.
Dr. Robert Alper is a rabbi/stand-up comic whose whole persona as a comic is informed by his identity as a rabbi. In the bio that appears on his Web site—www.bobalper.com—he addresses his slash in the first paragraph with a joke, referring to himself as “the world’s only practicing clergyman doing stand-up comedy . . . intentionally.”
Bob Alper is the only rabbi in the country who regularly addresses congregations that require a cover charge and a two-drink minimum. Sound funny? You bet it is. Because Bob is the world’s only practicing clergyman doing stand-up comedy . . . intentionally. His fresh, contemporary, and totally “unorthodox” style has been delighting audiences from Hollywood’s IMPROV to The Montreal Comedy Festival. And his unique brand of intelligent, 100% clean humor appeals to everyone—from a synagogue or church crowd to corporate events, colleges, and theatres throughout North America and London.
A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Bob is a graduate of Lehigh University, was ordained at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and is the first Jewish person ever to earn a doctorate from the Princeton Theological Seminary. He has served congregations in Buffalo and Philadelphia, where he continues to conduct High Holiday services.
Bob began his comedy career in 1986 when he entered the “Jewish Comic of the Year Contest” at the Going Bananas club in Philadelphia. Television, radio, and personal appearances followed as he quickly honed his distinctive approach to stand-up. He’s been seen on Good Morning America, Showtime, the BBC, CNN, and was featured on Extra, TV’s top-rated entertainment program, immediately following a segment on the size of Jennifer Lopez’s buttocks.
Today, Bob performs nearly 100 shows per year, drawing tremendous audience numbers and response. His humor is fast-paced and sophisticated, yet gentle and unhurtful: all in all, a charming and affable comedian. In addition to his solo shows, Bob performs frequently in an extraordinary pairing with Muslim/Arab comedian Ahmed Ahmed.
Bob is the author of two books that further showcase his considerable talents: Life Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This, an inspirational collection now in its fifth printing, and the award-winning full-color cartoon book A Rabbi Confesses. He’s also produced two best-selling comedy CDs.
Bob resides in rural Vermont with his wife Sherri, a psychotherapist. They are empty-nest parents of Zack and Jessie.
Geoff is a lawyer/actor-director who uses completely different resumes to showcase his different talents. If you were to look at his “actor” or “director” resume, you would almost have no idea that he’s the same person profiled in his “lawyer” resume.
WORK EXPERIENCE
ATTORNEY |
Weil, Gotshal & Manges (New York, NY) • Education policy and litigation, trademark law, entertainment law, international arbitration; • Pro Bono advocacy on behalf of New York public schools; • Pro Bono advocacy on behlaf of families of victims of 9/11; • Extensive legal research and writing, oral advocacy, settlement negotiation, depositions and advising of clients. |
1996–2001 |
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Davis, Graham & Stubbs (Denver, CO) • Legal research and writing; taking of depositions; advising clients |
1994–1995 |
FREELANCE WRITER |
Recently published work includes: • “Off the Streets,” The New York Times, May 2, 2001. • “Second Thoughts,” The New York Times, March 7, 2001. • “Second Wind,” The New York Times, November 15, 2000. • “Time to Hunker Down,” The New York Times, September 6, 2000. • “Confessions Of A Temp,” The American Lawyer, October 1999 • “The Footnote,” New Orleans Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 • A New Deal for Free Speech: Free Speech and the Labor Movement in the 1930s, Virginia Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 1 |
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VOLUNTEER TEACHER |
Institute for Collaborative Education • Teaching classes exploring issues of criminal and constitutional law with high school students • Curriculum design and modification. |
2000–present |
EDUCATION |
University of Virginia Law School (Charlottesville, VA) Awards/Activities: • Virginia Law Review
• Student/Faculty Round Table • Order of the Coif (top 5%) |
JD |
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University of Virginia Graduate School (Charlottesville, VA) • Thesis: A New Deal for Free Speech: Free Speech and the Labor Movement in the 1930s, Published: Virginia Law Review, Vol. 80-1. |
MA, History |
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University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) Awards/Activities: • Summa Cum Laude • National Debate Champions 1990; Runners-up 1989 & 1991 • Co-Captain of the UCLA Speech and Debate Team |
BA |
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Escuela Cabaguil, School of Spanish Language (Antigua, Guatemala) |
Certified, 1995 |
MEMBERSHIPS |
Colorado Bar; New York Bar; American Bar Association; ABCNY. |
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INTERESTS |
Talking, writing, acting, travel. References and/or letters of recommendation available upon request |
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Editorial Board (1992-93)