About Us
Background
Welcome to Klaxos. I am Christian Moritz, the founder and leader of Klaxos. Before Klaxos, I had several decades of experience managing multimillion-dollar businesses, recruiting and leading teams, and growing revenue. I worked at AOL, Kraft-Heinz, Pepsi, Coors, Choice Hotels, Bank of New York Mellon, Aetna, the National Association of Manufacturers, and Sodexo. I led business units with teams of 20+, researching GTM strategy and implementing P&L, product, marketing, sales, finance, communications, media, and government relations. I earned an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Strategic Management graduate certificate from Harvard. I am a recognized leader in advanced LinkedIn strategies, pioneering the concept in early 2009.
Why I created Klaxos
In 2009, as part of my corporate full-time job, I pioneered using LinkedIn to increase media visibility for key external-facing leadership and generate sales leads for business development staff. I noticed it was emerging as the primary marketplace buyers of complex B2B products (e.g., emerging cloud computing) and professional services (e.g., IT consultants) searched for vendors. I learned that LinkedIn had become the top sourcing tool used by job recruiters searching for candidates.
During 2010-2011, my colleagues and I became sought-after amateur resume writers through word-of-mouth. We desired to help the frustration our colleagues endured when their skills, experiences, and accomplishments went unnoticed by job recruiters. We wanted to empower quality candidates to escape the metaphorical black hole of job hunting—where resumes enter but never leave because the Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) blocks them from moving forward, leaving the applicant without an interview, explanation, or hope. I realized that most resume services outsourced their work to low-quality freelance writers overseas with zero experience within US enterprise organizations. I wanted to help and knew there was a better way. After writing 100+ resumes for friends, in late 2011, I decided to transition my side hustle into founding a company.
Klaxos was launched in January 2012 with these goals:
- Empower professionals undergoing the difficult challenge of involuntary or voluntary career transition.
- Recruit and lead a small (on purpose) internal team writing together to deliver top-rated, 1:1 writing, career advice, and support.
- Enable job searchers to obtain their targeted jobs by writing personal, custom, impactful career stories that make their unique skills, experiences, accomplishments, and value proposition stand out to job recruiters and hiring executives.
- Leverage the combined experience of hiring senior professionals and job recruiters in many industries and functions who knew precisely what hiring managers at top companies were seeking.
- Design client materials for the unexpected way hiring managers read resumes, evaluate talent, and make decisions.
- Make it easy for job recruiters to find resumes in ATS databases and profiles in LinkedIn by using targeted skill keywords and leveraging the SEO methods used to boost webpages to the top of Google results.
- Make referrals our primary source of new business by providing impactful work and high-touch customer service to build a community of delighted clients.
Teamwork makes the dream work!
Carolyn was a human resources/capital recruiter with Wells Fargo for many years before joining Klaxos. Before that, she spent seven years as the communications, public relations, and external media director at UPMC Hospital and Health System. Since 2012, she has written several hundred resumes and LinkedIn profiles for clients in technology, finance, health care, pharmaceutical, legal, media, sales, manufacturing, military, consumer products, nonprofits, and other industry verticals. Carolyn holds a bachelor's degree in technical writing from New York University.
Karl has comprehensive experience writing technology, public relations, media, marketing, communications, and all other functional resumes and LinkedIn profiles. He is an expert in search engine optimization and LinkedIn professional networking services and has written more than 1,000 professional resumes and LinkedIn profiles. As a Certified Professional Resume Writer, Karl has created profiles for clients in more than 30 countries, from Australia to the United Kingdom. He holds a bachelor's degree in writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from the University of Maryland.
Susan leverages her 16 years of business experience in healthcare technology, electronic medical records, clinical systems, medical devices, and project management to write impactful resumes and LinkedIn profiles. She has extensive public and private sector health technology experience, including supporting Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD), and Health and Human Services (HHS). Before joining our team, she started her career at Epic EMR and Booz Allen. Susan is passionate about crafting standout resumes and profiles, turning vision into action, and action into results. She attended Dickinson College, earning a bachelor’s degree in international business.
Rebecca writes resumes, cover letters, and other career documents. She installs new LinkedIn profiles that increase visibility and create more interviews or sales leads. As a curious, creative, and compassionate professional, she aims to help professionals through writing. She attended Arizona State University, earning a bachelor's degree in communications.
Nick has 30+ years of technical expertise in digital media strategy, website UX, UI design, SEO, and front & backend engineering. Nick leverages his talents to help people achieve their career goals using a comprehensive inbound digital marketing strategy combining social media, digital public relations, search engine optimization for a personal brand, and, most importantly – real human intelligence, innovation, and instincts. He is a Certified Google Partner. He has a bachelor's degree in communications science from Indiana University.
Our Method
Research, Evaluation, and Targeting
We lead an in-depth interview to learn about your experience, accomplishments, current skills, and future goals. We assess how your skills fit into today’s job market. We collaborate to develop a resume and/or LinkedIn profile strategy.
Impactful Document Writing
We write personally branded materials. Beyond resumes, we draft impactful custom content required to achieve your job search goals.
Linking You to Decision Makers
We provide resources that empower you to use the documents we wrote successfully. In-depth expert guidance on job search strategy. How to get a resume in front of a human. Resume emailed to 40,000 recruiters. Hiring decision-makers are more reachable – if you know how to find them. Interview and salary coaching that wins next-level jobs.
We succeeded
- Our proven process has helped 6,000+ clients (100+ occupations and 60+ countries) land great jobs faster at top organizations by writing personal, custom, impactful career stories!
- Trusted, verifiable reviews (500+) from named clients obtaining high-level employment at major organizations.
- Create and use proven resume layout and detailed skill keywords to power clients past ATS parsing and filtering software onto a human.
- Numerous organizations have retained Klaxos for outplacement services as part of their severance package for separated employees.
- Advisor to LinkedIn and Korn Ferry executive search. Featured on ABC TV, WSJ, Forbes, Babson, Huffington Post, and other prominent media.
- It is gratifying to know we have positively impacted the career growth of 6,000+ clients.
Now it is your turn!
We can get you ready, interviewed, hired, and more compensation quicker using our proven expertise!
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What does the Klaxos name represent?
The Klaxos brand name is inspired by the Klaxon, a horn that combines electronics and mechanics to make a loud, recognizable noise alerting people of critical information. Similarly, Klaxos combines digital technology and human intelligence to enable organizational and personal brands to make intelligent, relevant digital noise that overwhelms competitive clatter. We are a leading provider of LinkedIn writing, resume writing, and social selling training services that increase visibility for job searchers, salespeople, and organizations.