Brooke Kent has spent two decades helping executives and professionals craft personalized, achievement-focused, marketable, persuasive, and visually-appealing resumes and LinkedIn profiles.
Brooke received her bachelor’s summa cum laude in history, policy studies, and Spanish translation from Rice University. While there, she won a Boren Award for International Study for pin-pointing what led not-for-profit organizations in Buenos Aires to succeed or to fail as they interacted with the city government.
Brooke began her communications career by interviewing several White House chiefs-of-staff for the White House Transition Project, a non-partisan initiative that facilitated the transition between President William J. Clinton and President George W. Bush.
Afterwards, Brooke worked as the director of operations and marketing for the Mixtec Group, the leading executive recruiter in the produce industry. During her tenure, the total revenues of the company and its subsidiary rose by 71%. Brooke oversaw the redesign of the company’s entire marketing package, and she brainstormed and ghost-wrote monthly articles for the president’s column in the most widely-circulated industry newspaper.
Brooke later served as the executive writer for the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. She was the director’s voice to a staff of 8,000 technical staff members, researchers, and professionals. Brooke conceptualized and wrote the “Director’s Notebook,” a weekly all-employee publication that contained articles, interviews, and columns. Additionally, she wrote articles, all-employee emails, board-of-director letters, memoranda, and website content for the director.
Brooke then started her own writing business, which served corporate and non-profit clients. Her work as a writer and lecturer for a community-wide, multi-generational program saw adult enrollment increase by 54%, and children’s enrollment grow by 160%.
A veteran entrepreneur, Brooke has launched three companies, so she understands first-hand how hiring managers (and their computers) think.
Brooke lives with her husband and three children in Colorado Springs. In her free time, she enjoys baking, cooking, reading, cycling, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and visiting U.S. national parks (13 down, 49 to go).