Stepping Stones

Kathryn Crawford Saxer Career Transition

(I met with Heather as part of a Seattle Times “Career Makeover” series and wrote the following summary of our conversation for the journalist writing the story.) Heather was feeling dated. She was sitting in my office, a Seattle Times Career Makeover subject, and worrying about the eight-year gap in her resume – a gap filled with raising kids, earning her B.A., and working retail to help pay the bills. “I have eight years of intellectual property paralegal experience,” she said, “But …