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Who We Are

Caterpillar Career Consultants brings a mix of traditional job search techniques and a modern approach to a fast-paced, high-tech world. Your career transition always starts with a solid resume, but clearly defining your skills and effectively communicating in a global market is fundamental to a successful career search. Identifying your talents, finding and recognizing opportunities, and delivering your message to the decision makers are the focus of our journey. Schedule a free Discovery Call and make change happen!

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Jennifer Takacs-O'Shea
President

With a successful career of more than 18 years discovering and nurturing talent for staffing firms and Corporate Human Resources recruiting for numerous Fortune 500 corporations, Jennifer Takacs-O'Shea, President of Caterpillar Career Consultants, takes her unique perspectives on what employers are looking for in a candidate and today helps her clients become their personal best. Her blended use of social networking and new media tools, refining in-person presentation techniques and utilizing traditional interview methods, has continually matched the right person with the right job. In addition, her personalized approach to providing cost-effective staffing solutions and customized programs to meet her corporate clients' talent development needs.

Jennifer offers an individual approach to each of her clients and she understands that what contribute to the success of every company are fully qualified employees. She started Caterpillar Career Consultants with the purpose of helping her clients reach for their full potential and she continues to help clients develop into successful professionals. She has seen her own career flourish and she knows first-hand how to be a success, by achieving the level of assistant vice president and now president of a woman owned business.

Throughout her career, Jennifer has seen which candidates get hired, and which ones don't. Her insight into what employers demand gives her clients the upper hand when interviewing, and our corporate clients always receive well-prepared and qualified candidates ready to take on the world.


Dan O'Shea
Chief Creative Officer

Dan O'Shea has a wide range of experience in career counseling, higher education and public relations, and brings to Caterpillar Career Consultants the creative direction and an editorial style that complements the modern job seeker. Dan's consultative and individualized approach to meeting the demands of his clients reflects in the success of both his corporate clients and the satisfied clients Dan has worked with over the years.

With over 20 year experience in partnering with national clients, Fortune 500 companies and organizations large and small, Dan's practical attitude helps his customers understand that Caterpillar Career Consultants can provide cost-effective staffing strategies that will meet demands of the client and still deliver quality, well-rounded candidates.

In addition to having a successful career in public relations, Dan has also spent a number of years as a career counselor for a private college on Long Island and has had the privilege of working with students, graduates and alumni of all ages and experience levels. His in-depth understanding of their needs and his consultative methods to addressing their individual has given Dan further insight into the challenges of todays' job market and what is really takes for the individual to success. He sees their potential and truly makes his candidates believe in themselves.