Renee DeMar has been a career consultant for over 10 years. Prior experience includes HR Manager with extensive recruitment, training management teams, designing regional training programs and playing a key role in the hiring process. As a career consultant she has designed and facilitated for several recognized national model job search programs including: facilitating the Winning New Jobs Model funded by the California Wellness Foundation, and the national Malcolm Baldridge Award Re-employment Services Program at NOVA Private Industry Council in Silicon Valley. She also designed and facilitated the job readiness component for the Fast Track to Work Program at Cabrillo College, which was nationally researched and recognized by MDRC as being the best of its kind in a community college in the nation.

She operates her own business in Santa Cruz called Next Wave Job Search Services, along with contracting for Right Management Consulting and the Institute of Business Performance. Renee weaves an extensive theater background, into her rich HR management and recruitment knowledge, and focuses that expertise in an extraordinary humanistic way of helping diverse types of populations obtain their career goals and dreams

She has designed, trained and coached in a variety of community-based organizations, high tech corporate settings, business service environments, defense contract arenas, and the community college classroom. She has coached clients from welfare to work, dislocated workers, offenders, rehabilitation, blue and white collar, college students, veterans, homeless, top level executives, artists and all the creative types in-between.

Renee is known best for her soft-spoken style, unique views and effective approaches that rekindle fresh sparks of hope in everyone’s heart and spirit.

Recent Podcasts

Behavioral Interview Preparation