Bruce Clagg, founder of Advanced Career Solutions (ACS), is THE ONLY certified, professional resume writer, interview coaching, and career counseling professional with the tetralogy of certifications in the entire state of Pennsylvania (as of this writing) offering various services to help you land that new career position quickly. As a former VP/GM, Bruce leveraged more than 30 years of business success and achievements through great interviewing, hiring, training, mentoring, and coaching his employees and utilized those successes and knowledge in helping others with their careers beginning more than 15 years ago.
Bruce earned the following prestigious, professional certifications:
  • Certified Professional Résumé Writer™ (CPRW)
  • ​Advanced Résumé Writing Certification™ (ARWC)
  • Certified Employment Interview Professional™ (CEIP)
  • Certified Professional Career Coach™ (CPCC)
PARWCC: "The Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches™ was founded in January of 1990. Prior to that time, there had been no association for career professionals to exchange information, enhance their skills, or demonstrate their commitment to providing professional services to the general public. Today, those who display the association's logo affirm their dedication to excellence in meeting client career goals. In addition, many members then choose to seek certification to further affirm their expertise as career professionals."
  Code of Ethics

bruce's certifications

Certified Professional Résumé ​Writer™
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Advanced Résumé
Writing Certification™
Certified Professional Career 
​Coach™
Certified Employment Interview Professional ™

Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW)

Although most “resume writers” are NOT certified professionals, they abound on the Internet. This certification (along with the three additional, below) is a process involving senior, certified professionals providing training, coaching, and testing to ensure that all of today’s requirements involving formatting, structure, content, grammar, syntax, et al are perfect and then the final examination is viewed and graded by three, or more senior, certified professionals to gain certification and usage of the Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches™ logo.
(www.parw.com)

Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP)

The CEIP course and testing is to provide a venue for thoroughly discussing what works well and what does NOT for both the interviewer AND the candidate. The days of “interrogating” candidates should be over, but no MBA program in the U.S. offers a single course on interviewing, therefore most decision-makers continue “the old ways,” mostly with some degree of displeasure. A new, easier, more productive way to interview was formed during this certification process, much to the delight of our coaching clients, enabling them to land that career position more quickly and with greater compensation.

Certified Professional Career Coach (CPCC)

​This certification puts it all together. Seldom has the U.S. job market been as volatile as it has been in recent history. Even professional athletes have a coach and seeking a new career is NOT a campaign that most people conduct often in a lifetime. Could a certified, professional career coach explore options, overcome any perceived shortcomings, expedite your success, and enable you to gain that career position?  ABSOLUTELY! We have coached more than 1,000 clients and authored thousands of resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn Profiles (and proper usage), and support material during the past 15+ years.

ADVANCED RESUME WRITING CERTIFICATION (arwc)

The Advanced Resume Writing Certification (ARWC) required coursework and an abundance of training via Skype. They accumulate diverse resumes and cover letters from CPRWs across the world. Many differ in format and some in verbiage. It allows a CPRW to see what hundreds of other professionals are writing and formatting. Most of us ‘get in a groove’ with the formats we typically utilize, but this course opened a number of ‘doors’ to better match our client with a better format, yet still survive the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software screen that receives all online resumes from job postings. This course introduced many new and different schemes that will provide our client with that little bit extra that may now gain the interview! They referred to this certification as their ‘Master of Resume Writing’ degree!!