Successful Career Strategies

Experienced Career Coaches – Los Angeles

Gideon Grunfeld | President

    For more than 30 years, Gideon Grunfeld has been immersed in the world of jobs and hiring. As a human resources manager, attorney, and consultant, he has reviewed countless resumes and been involved with thousands of job interviews and salary negotiations. As President of Successful Career Strategies, he has since 2004 helped educated and highly skilled workers find jobs and change careers.

    Human Resources Management & Consulting

    Gideon’s fascination with hiring and workplace trends dates back to college, where he studied Human Resource Management at the Wharton School and earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Following graduation, he served as a consultant at NERA, a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, where he worked with expert witnesses testifying at trial, including cases which involved employment law litigation and affirmative action plans.  

    He then worked as a human resources manager at a 5,000-employee teaching hospital, where he was involved in handling union negotiations, investigating sexual harassment complaints, and advising senior executives on promotions and layoffs. He went on to a role as a human resources executive for ADP, then a Fortune 500 company.

    Employment Law & Business Litigation

    Gideon is a cum laude graduate of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a former clerk to the Honorable Gary L. Taylor of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

    Following law school, Gideon worked as an employment law attorney for one the biggest law firms in the country – the Los Angeles office of Skadden Arps. In this capacity, he represented corporations, including Ralph Lauren and Pepsi, on the defense side of employment discrimination matters and other work-related disputes.

    Gideon then worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. His experience there included successfully defending one of the largest age discrimination lawsuits in the country and otherwise advising a range of employers about a wide range of issues that directly impacted the careers of their employees

    Career Coaching

    In 2004, after nearly ten years at these national law firms, Gideon founded Successful Career Strategies, Inc. to help people not only find jobs but also transition into new careers. He has worked extensively with professionals at all levels, and he has assisted them in finding new jobs within and outside of their fields of experience.

    Speeches

    Gideon has written and spoken extensively on employment issues, having given presentations on salary negotiations and fee-setting for more than ten years. He has presented to thousands of professionals at firms and professional organizations in California and around the country. Gideon is a former President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Speakers Association.