Get to know our leadership team
Our leadership team brings together decades of experience as coaches, interviewers, and candidates. The Career Oyster leadership team is committed to helping job seekers build a lifetime of interviewing skills to help people get better jobs that lead to more fulfilling lives.
Howard Cattie
Founder & CEO
After 30+ years of career coaching, recruiting, and sales management experience, Howard founded CareerOyster, a paradigm shift in the prevailing advice and opinions around interviewing.
Howard's passion is helping people build their career plans and master the art of the resume & interview to help them win their ideal job and build a lifetime of interview skills.
Howard has extensive experience coaching thousands of jobseekers and hundreds of recruiters in effective career planning, resume writing, interview coaching and job closing strategies at companies like Custom Recruiting Services, Source Services, Romac/Kforce, and Norrell/Spherion.
Howard has an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, an MBA in Marketing from Temple University and a BS in Engineering Physics from St Joseph’s University.
Kerry Gilliam
CMO/COO
Kerry has 25+ years experience in customer success, operations and marketing.
Kerry is passionate about helping job seekers find their ideal jobs that inspire them, challenge them, and help them achieve their goals.
Kerry has led customer success, operations and marketing teams in the HRTech space including Infor, Jobvite, Talemetry, PageUp, and PeopleFluent. She is a proven business executive who helps businesses reach their growth goals. She has brought new brands to market and led companies through mergers and acquisitions resulting in integrated, high functioning teams.
Kerry has been quoted in leading business publications including: Forbes, SHRM, SIA (Staffing Industry Analysts), INC Magazine, and Next Avenue.
Robert Gilliam
Growth Advisor
Rob is a proven business leader with over 25 years of experience selling technology solutions to help individuals and organizations achieve better outcomes.
He has worked as an individual account executive as a sales director with large multinational companies as well as startups including Oracle, Infor, CA Technologies, Planview, Pegasystems, Navigar Consulting, and PeopleFluent.
Rob has seen firsthand how effective the InterviewCoach system is and has coached many colleagues to follow the system to better perform in their interviews and get the jobs they really wanted.
Rob is an entrepreneur and advisor who is helping multiple businesses to move forward and achieve their growth objectives.
Hear from our clients directly...
"Before I signed up for Howard Cattie’s Interviewing Coaching class, my interviewing skills consisted of me talking endlessly to convince prospective employers to hire me. Additionally, I was reactive and passive throughout the entire interview process.
After completing Howard’s five main video sessions, I learned how to control the interview and become much more proactive. I highly recommend Howard’s Interview Coaching Course to be competitive in today’s tough job search market."
-Ross R
“Howard is an excellent coach to help you strategize your job search, prepare and land the position you want. He teaches an approach to job search that is "solution selling" where YOU are the solution to the employer's need. After working with Howard I was able to land a great position. But more than that, I learned skills that I can apply in many situations as well as increased my level of confidence. I recommend him highly!"
-Amanda M
“Howard is an exceptional career coach. Over the course of the last year he has helped me reinvent my career and guided me through several different career transition scenarios to focus on what I love to do. I wholeheartedly recommend him to anyone who is looking for a coach to help him or her through a career change. He intuitively understood my strengths and what I had to offer and was able to help me creatively communicate them to potential employers. His unique approach to resume writing and interviewing helped me internalize and communicate the value I had to offer potential employers. All this resulted in a successful job search working for a great company."
- Mark B
Why They Do It
After 30+ years of helping hundreds people master their interviews and get the jobs they really wanted, Howard built a unique system. Together, the Career Oyster team wanted to make this product available to everyone so that we can help more people get the jobs they want by mastering their interviews.
And they're excited to help you too!
Are you ready to master your next interview?
Join the thousands of job seekers who have followed this proven system and won their interviews and the jobs they really wanted.
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