Create Your Own Opportunities

Create Your Own Opportunities features career management and job search advice from Tracy Brisson, Founder and CEO of The Opportunities Project, a national career coaching agency.

Create Your Own Opportunities includes 12 chapters of advice on how to think outside the box about your work, as well as personal stories that tell how changing specific mindset and habits brought about success for Tracy, her team and clients.

This eBook includes insight on how to

• sell your accomplishments through your resume and LinkedIn profile
• network effectively online and in-person, including how to tweet your way to success
• assert your confidence and power in your search for new opportunities
• overcome any setbacks you encounter and move forward with your goals
• define your own path to excellence and freedom

What People Have to Say About The Opportunities Project and Tracy

"Tracy understands the landscape of the 21st century job market, and communicates effective and empowering techniques to help mold you into a more marketable and desirable candidate for whatever career path you may wish to pursue. If you need guidance on how to direct your career, you have found the right woman.”- Zachary

Meet the Author

Tracy Brisson is the Founder and CEO of The Opportunities Project, a national talent development, career coaching, and recruitment consulting agency. Since opening its doors in 2010, The Opportunities Project has helped over 1,000 individuals reach career success through speaking engagements, workshops, and one-on-one and group coaching, and helped organizations hire nearly 500 new team members through its consulting services.

Before launching her own company, Tracy worked in recruitment for over a decade, including managing the hiring process for over 5,000 annual teacher vacancies as Director of Teacher Recruitment for the New York City Department of Education, one of the largest employers in the United States. During her tenure, Tracy’s team placed second in the annual Best Employer Brand contest sponsored by ERE, an international recruitment association.

Tracy’s career advice also regularly appears in print and national media outlets, including the New York Post, Time Out New York, Mashable and CBS MoneyWatch. She has been a featured speaker at dozens of recruitment, leadership, and education conferences, including the Brazen Careerist Recruiting Social Recruiting Conference, CollegeRecruiter.com FedCollege Recruiting Conference, and #140edu.

Tracy is an alumna of Syracuse University, New York University and Teach for America, and splits her time between Brooklyn, NY and Savannah, GA.