Steve Gallison, CPRW, GCDF, CFJTC
Outplacement & Federal Training Programs Master

CAREER PROFILE

Steve Gallison has been pursuing his Occupassion™ for the better part of his working career. Starting out in the rehabilitation field as a job analyst, career counselor, program developer and program director, Steve is on a mission to help those in need of employment. He believes everyone is valuable, employable and can contribute to society though their work. He has been teaching, coaching and counseling about Job Acquisition Strategies since the late 70’s.

Steve developed three vocational training programs that operated as businesses and was awarded a “Certificate of Distinction” from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for placing more than 250 developmentally disabled people into competitive federal jobs in a three year period.

He designed, developed and managed the nation’s first coordinated horticultural employment and training program in six strategic cities across the U.S. which trained and placed more than four thousand marginalized people in jobs in horticulture and related industries. He developed a federally grant funded training program and trained over 185 tissue culture lab technicians to work in commercial tissue culture labs.

Steve has provided outplacement consulting and training services to the Federal Office of Personnel Management, Disney, Proctor and Gamble, Alcoa, National Security Agency, National Institute of Health, the Central Intelligence Agency, Westinghouse, U.S. Department of State, General Electric, General Motors, and U.S. Airways, to name a few. As a Rapid Response Coordinator he managed more than 250 substantial layoffs and plant closings effecting more than 45,000 workers. He is proud to have assisted with outplacement services to the staff of cabinet member’s staff as presidential administrations leave office, as well as helping Congressional support staff of those members of Congress who have lost elections or selected retirement.

Currently Steve directs the Professional Outplacement Assistance Center (POAC) which he conceived and championed. The center has served more than 135,000 individuals by providing outplacement services. POAC is the only program of its type in the U.S. that serves professional, executive, technical, managerial and scientific workers with free outplacement services. The program has been singled out by the U.S. Department of Labor as a “Best Practices” model and in December of 2008 as an “Innovative Program.”

Steve is

• Certified Global Career Development Facilitator
• Certified Professional Résumé Writer
• Certified Interviewing and Interrogation Specialist 1994-2008 - III LLC
• Certified Federal Job Search Trainer and Counselor
• Received intensive NLP training from a protégé of Richard Bandler and John Grinder who were the founders of NLP
• JOBS II Trainer under a grant to The George Washington School of Psychiatry and the University of Michigan Prevention Research Center from the National Institute of Mental Health - 10 day group dynamics facilitation/instructional immersion model.
• Served as a Trainer on JIST Publishing National Training team 1997
• A trainer for the Maryland Institute for Workforce Excellence
• Certified Trainer for the Résumé Place’s “10 Steps to a Federal Job”

A member of the

• Career Management Alliance
• Professional Association of Résumé Writers
• Mid Atlantic Career Counseling Association

Awards, Recognitions and Milestones include:

• White House award for conceiving and co-directing a showcase of abilities of people with disabilities on the Capital Mall. The program called “Inspire’85” drew over 185,000 visitors in four days. Raised more than $250,000 dollars to help underwrite the program.
• Selected to the U.S. Bicentennial Commission and chaired the Living Legacy Committee
• Consulted in the establishment of the Dole Foundation
• Conceived and “pitched” the concept of a commercial three hour television event called “Surviving the Pink Slip” that created interest and provided services to unemployed workers in the Baltimore region.
• Steve is also the creator of the Résumé Doctor who attends many of the region’s job fairs and provides a team of Résumé Doctors (The Résumé Resuscitation Team) to diagnose résumés, create treatment plans and make referrals to résumé critical care facilities throughout the State of Maryland.
• Provides Curriculum Vitae training and career management advice to Post Docs at the National Cancer institute and the National Institute of Health

Although he has yet to publish that definitive book on outplacement, he has designed and written training manuals to enhance the professional career counseling skills of state and county employees who provide services to those using the public service programs.

• “Searching for a New Position”
• “Targeting Success”
• “Your Job – Gone In 60 Seconds”
• “From Adversity to Strength”
• “Interviewing for Employers”
• “Facilitation Skills ‘Cause It’s Not All Training”

He is currently working on a novel, tentatively titled “Angels in My Path”.

Steve volunteers his time with Matt’s Place - Community Connection Center where he provides career advice to various members of the community. Drop by and you’ll see him conducting a group program on the use of Internet-based social networking for job leads or working one on one to help someone gain the confidence to move forward in their job acquisition strategy.

In his leisure time he spends it with his wife, Donna a “Very” Special Education teacher, his dog, a 100 pound Boxer named Buddy, at an Abredeen IronBirds baseball game or just hanging out cultivating and expanding his orchid collection.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Steve Gallison
One Romanoff Court Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21234
Email:
Phone: 443-562-6250

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