Meet Debra

Debra Feldman

There is nothing I enjoy more than helping exceptional, ethical professionals traverse today’s career matrix to get from where they are to where they want to be and establish lifetime financial security.

Debra Feldman, JobWhiz, is one-of-a-kind. An exclusive Executive Agent and job search consultant for senior executives. She is recognized within the careers industry for inverting the popular recruiting paradigm which has employers in control. She can only be hired by an individual to scour potential opportunities and find needs matching their specifications. She has always been 100% loyal to job seekers; she never works for an employer to recruit talent or outplace a former employee.

JobWhiz identifies and promotes individuals to appropriate hiring decision-making authorities to arrange one-on-one, confidential networking conversations that produce enticing new job offers within a few months. JobWhiz clients are respected and able to negotiate as equals for roles suiting their needs. Unlike other career marketing professionals,  Debra does not have a flip-side business taking orders from and paid by employers.

Debra specializes in those who face the greatest challenges in today’s highly competitive job market: career changers, confidential job hunters, re-entry candidates, and industry switchers who often are dismissed for “lack of experience” despite their robust abilities. She boasts a 99% success rate which results from identifying the most effective search strategy and delivering positive outcomes by personally implementing a carefully executed campaign often as the job seeker’s 100% loyal, 100% dedicated representative.

Debra created Network Purposefully™, a precise, strategic, sharply focused, highly effective methodology that relies not only on just “who you know, but who with decision making and hiring authority knows, likes, trusts and remembers you” to open doors to new career opportunities. This is usually before a position is advertised and is frequently created just in time to hire a particular individual. Purposeful networking is like long-term “job security:” it provides a lifetime of early access to desired opportunities known only among an elite number of insiders.

Debra’s marketing expertise extends beyond traditional campaign channels and incorporates strategic promotional tactics to boost reputation and encourage more job lead referrals. By anticipating, removing or mitigating obstacles that interfere with career search progress, Debra clears the way for a faster, smoother landing into an ideal role.

Like many of her executive clients, Debra is a career-changer. After graduation from Columbia with an undergraduate degree in Nursing and Masters of Public Health, Debra spent her early career in healthcare administration before transitioning into corporate management consulting developing further expertise in project leadership, business development, strategic marketing, and process re-engineering. When she decided that she did not want to continue traveling extensively, she was lucky enough to devise a highly satisfying position for herself (actually an entirely new business concept) that met every one of her requirements.

In 2000, right around the beginning of the internet job board revolution, Debra established JobWhiz. Despite unprecedented technological advances, Debra recognized how one-to-one networking relationships, not just online applications or electronic resumes, would continue as the foundation of high-level senior executive career success.

Debra has advised over 1000 senior executives on their job search strategy and facilitated rare, confidential, one-on-one direct networking contacts for introverts and extraverts alike. She attributes her career success to inexhaustible curiosity, keen analytical skills, extraordinary executive job market insights, passion for business development, and seriously innovative marketing communications skills.

Debra is or has been a recommended resource for numerous business, academic, and trade organizations including AICPA, IEEE, Financial Executives Networking Group (FENG,) Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG,) FEI, Institute of Supply Management, YPO, and more. Columbia University and Columbia Business School have honored Debra by naming her to their recommended private coach panels. She has led global events for ExecuNet and contributed to Vistage and many marquee virtual media and print publications in the careers field. Debra has been selected to lead job market re-entry seminars for academic centers of excellence. She routinely delivers webinars, teleconferences, and live programs to career professionals, senior executives, entrepreneurs, and Ivy business school groups (including Wharton, Harvard Business School, Columbia, and ChicagoBooth) and has been quoted as a leading expert in Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, HR.org, SmartBriefs, NBCNews, and The Wall Street Journal.