I’ve spent 15+ years working one-to-one with experienced professionals at pivotal points in their careers: Directors preparing for VP roles, executives considering what comes next, professionals making significant pivots, and accomplished people whose careers no longer fit neatly into a job title.
Every engagement is a partnership in strategic positioning. We isolate the milestones across your career—uncovering patterns of cross-functional influence, commercial scaling, or clinical impact—to architect a cohesive professional narrative that clearly justifies your next leadership tier.
- 15+ years in career strategy & personal branding
- 3,000+ professionals served
- Deep expertise in leadership, complex career transitions & pharma/life sciences
Positioning Accomplished Professionals for What Comes Next
Rebecca Henninger | Principal Executive Career Strategist & Personal Branding Authority
Trusted by senior professionals from Leading Companies
70+ 5-Star Reviews • 20+ LinkedIn Recommendations • A+ BBB Rating • 3,000+ Professionals Served
Executive Positioning, Career Strategy & Personal Branding
Deep Expertise in Pharma, Life Sciences & Financial Services
As Seen In:
Media & Expert Commentary
A trusted voice on careers, hiring, and the changing world of work.
Rebecca Henninger, founder of The Job Girl, is regularly tapped by national and regional media for expert commentary on career strategy, executive positioning, personal branding, hiring trends, and the evolving job market.
Realtor.com | September 2026
Lowe’s Launches Coalition to Train Skilled Workers Amid Dire Shortage
Quoted on the growing skills gap, changing perceptions of vocational careers, and workforce demand created by AI infrastructure and advanced manufacturing.
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The Record / NorthJersey.com | September 2026
AI Makes It a Tough Jobs Market. We Got Tips From NJ Career Coaches.
Featured on the realities of today’s job market, why high-volume applications often fail, and the importance of focused positioning, messaging, resume strategy, and LinkedIn.
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SUCCESS Magazine | 2025
I Tested These AI Tools for My Resume. Here’s What I Found.
Quoted on applicant tracking systems, AI resume tools, and the myths that continue to shape how candidates approach the application process.
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Cali Weekly | August 2025
Job Hunting in 2025: Branding, Conversations, and Strategy Are the New Resume
Featured on personal branding, unique value propositions, strategic networking, and the importance of reacting and refining as the market responds.
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PROVOKED Magazine | 2025
Am I Overqualified or Just Experienced?
Quoted on ageism in hiring and why experienced professionals should position the depth of their experience as an advantage rather than trying to minimize it.
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Published Work & Additional Features
Rebecca’s career expertise and writing have also appeared in Forbes, Inc., Yahoo Finance, GOBankingRates, AOL, Project Eve, Scary Mommy, Her View From Home, Medium, and other national and digital publications.
Your experience, goals, market, and career decision determine the strategy.
My work is highly personal because careers at this level don't fit neatly into templates.
You won't be handed a course, a stack of worksheets, or passed to a junior writer. You work directly with me.
We talk. I ask a lot of questions. I look for the patterns across your career, the work you've done exceptionally well, the problems people rely on you to solve, and the experience that should lead based on where you want to go next.
Then we turn that into positioning you can use across your resume, LinkedIn, networking, interviews, and career decisions.
Specific to You
We define the story before we build the materials around it.
Positioning First
Every engagement is handled directly by me.
One-to-One
How I work
That perspective shapes the way I work today.
I understand why accomplished professionals can reach a point where the obvious next step no longer feels like the right one. The challenge is rarely a lack of experience. It is deciding what you want to do with that experience now and positioning it accordingly.
You are not starting over. You are deciding what to do with everything you’ve already built.
My own career has never followed a perfectly straight line.
I came to this work with a background in marketing and communications and built The Job Girl while raising a young family. Over the years, I’ve moved between entrepreneurship and corporate work, built and rebuilt my own professional identity, and experienced firsthand how differently a career decision feels once you have years of experience behind you.
I'm an executive resume writer and personal branding expert
There is no expiration date on your dreams
My Story
The Clarity Myth™
One of the ideas that has shaped my work is what I call The Clarity Myth™: the belief that you need to have your next move completely figured out before you can start making progress.
In reality, experienced professionals often gain clarity through the process of exploring options, testing positioning, having conversations, and seeing how the market responds.
That is why my work does not begin with forcing a perfect answer. It begins with understanding your experience, priorities, and possibilities well enough to make the next decision intelligently.
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Who I Work With
I support high-achieving professionals at pivotal moments in their careers, including:
Directors, VPs & Executives
Positioning for greater scope, leadership advancement, or a consequential next move.
Experienced Career Changers
Making a significant industry, function, or career pivot without discarding the value of what they've already built.
Accomplished Professionals at an Inflection Point
Deciding what comes next after a successful first, second, or even third chapter.
Professionals Returning After Time Away
Re-entering the market with experience that needs to be repositioned for where they are now.
Pharma, Life Sciences & Complex Corporate Leaders
Positioning highly specialized, cross-functional, regulated, or difficult-to-summarize careers.
My work is grounded in the CLEAR™ Framework: Clarity, Language, Evidence, Alignment, and Reputation. Through that process, I develop a personalized CLEAR™ Positioning Map that becomes the strategic foundation for the client’s resume, LinkedIn presence, messaging, and career strategy.
Clarity → Language → Evidence → Alignment → Reputation
It gives our work structure while keeping the strategy specific to your career, goals, and market.
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The CLEAR™ Framework
Why Clients Trust Me
My work combines strategic clarity, personal branding expertise, and a deep understanding of what today’s hiring managers and executives actually look for. My work is rooted in helping professionals build clarity before execution — because strategy without clarity is guesswork.
15+ Years of Experience
Thousands of clients supported through clarity, reinvention, and career growth.
3,000+ Professionals Guided
Thousands of clients supported through clarity, reinvention, and career growth.
High-Touch, Boutique Coaching
I intentionally work with a limited number of clients so you get thoughtful, personalized support.
Proven Results and Transformations
Increased confidence, aligned career paths, leadership promotions, and meaningful next chapters.
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