New York, New York, United States
I am a personalized career transition consultant. My experience in recruiting and managing financial professionals gives me a clear understanding of the best practices to utilize for a job seeker to be readily recognized by recruiters and managers as standout candidates. My career counseling approach is to focus on aligning a client's core competencies to the job opportunity and/or the opportunity-set-of-jobs: identify people with whom to network and thereby helping professionals "reinvent themselves" after long successful careers. Additionally, I develop with the client a strategy to launch and drive the search for the next role. Before becoming a career consultant, I spent my career managing equities for institutional clients. I have a thorough understanding and detailed comprehension of how companies function from the point of view of pattern recognition and foresight into product innovation. I spent the past decade of my 35-year career as a Director of Equity Research and as an Equity Portfolio Manager. Also, I am an experienced industry analyst in fast-changing markets including technology, healthcare, and risk management. This experience allows me to approach and counsel clients on achieving their most productive paths to success from a broad variety of perspectives. I have placed scores of clients from a Junior role to the executive level manager. I have an engineering degree from Stanford University and have a Masters in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. INDUSTRY AND FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE: • Banking and Financial Services • Technology and Information Services • Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotechnology • Risk Management and Cybersecurity • Asset Management AREAS OF EXPERTISE: • Personalized career transition consulting • Personal Branding • Interview Preparation • Resume Development Client Testimonial: "For a long time, I wrestled with choosing my next career path. Three different directions tugged at me, leaving me feeling lost. The looming uncertainty was incredibly stressful. Then, I started working with Rick (Ruvkun). Instead of pressuring me into a quick decision, Rick did something amazing. He helped me embrace the uncertainty by creating a structured plan to explore all three options simultaneously. This was a game-changer. Having someone who understood my unique goals and ambitions, with a clear framework to navigate all three paths, completely transformed my stress into relief and confidence. Now, I feel a sense of calm certainty that everything will unfold perfectly, and my resume is looking fantastic!"
Work with professionals in career transition in all industry groups at all levels. Specialize in financial services, technology and management consulting, and executive clients. Subject matter expert in resume building, interviewing, networking, branding, and LinkedIn. Strong skills in developing action plans for positive client results and outcomes.
Provide career counseling to Sloan Fellows MBAs (Mid-career 1-year Program) and Sloan MIT MBAs as they shift their careers in new directions.
Career Placement Officer to Masters Candidates in Operations Research, Business Analytics, Financial Engineering, and Management Science and Engineering in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR).
Portfolio Manager U. S. Small-Cap and SMID Cap Growth Equities. J & W Seligman was acquired by Ameriprise (Riversource) in 2008.