Birth Year (-Died Year)
1953
Current Location
Colorado Springs, CO
Occupation(s)
Writer - Corporate Executive
Biography
Pat Criscito is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) with more than 33 years of experience. She is the president and founder of ProType, Ltd., an international writing, editing, typesetting, and personal branding service established in 1980, and based in Colorado Springs. Pat has written more than 15,000 resumes and speaks nationally on career and entrepreneurial subjects.
Pat is currently President of the Board of Directors for Desert Harvest, Felicity, Inc., and Felicity Farms, and she is an EDGE University certified entrepreneurial trainer. Pat enjoys reading, gardening, gourmet cooking, music, singing, and her Welsh Corgi dogs.
Awards/Honors
NAWBO Pikes Peak Woman Business Owner of the Year, 1996
Education/Training
Bachelor of Science in Business, University of Phoenix, Colorado Springs, Colorado - Partial work towards a MBA completed
Published Works
Contributing writer to The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Colorado Spri…
Published Works Book Jackets
Organizations
Pat Criscito has been Treasurer of the National Resume Writers Association (The NRWA) since 2009 - Served on the Board of Trustees of the Better Business Bureau Foundation of the Pikes Peak Region for 7 years - Member of the Board of Directors of the Pikes Peak National Association of Woman Business Owners (NAWBO) for two years - Co-founder and seven-year board member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association, a unique entrepreneurial training/mentoring program for at-risk youth started by the governor of Colorado in 2005
Speaker Topics
Designing the perfect resume - Writing the perfect resume - e-Resumes - Internet job searching - Scannable resumes - E-mailable resumes - E-folios and web resumes - Cover letters - Interview answers in a flash - Answering the 200 toughest questions - The workforce of the not-so-distant future - Distance learning - Entrepreneurial thinking
