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Dwain Schenck

About

Dwain Schenck is a communications executive, published author and former award-winning TV reporter with a successful track record of developing communications strategies and serving as a trusted public relations advisor to Fortune 500 corporations, startup companies, nonprofit organizations, high-profile individuals, celebrities and associations.

Prior to starting Schenck Strategies, Dwain worked at MasterCard as Vice President of Communications, U.S. Markets where he developed and executed collaborative communications strategies to support all of MasterCard’s products and services, including mobile payments, credit, debit, prepaid, co-brands, small business, commercial and public sector. Before joining MasterCard he founded and ran ICA Strategic Communications, a boutique public relations firm. Among its many corporate and startup clients, Dwain provided crisis communications counseling for CT Governor Dannel P. Malloy.

In 1990 he was named Director of Public Relations for the nation’s largest private international humanitarian relief agency, AmeriCares. In addition to producing all of the organization’s marketing collateral material he spent most of his time with journalists and producers writing and pitching thousands of news stories to media outlets around the globe. It is estimated he generated more than one billion media impressions about the organization’s lifesaving work on major TV networks, radio stations, and in newspapers and magazines, including CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, to name a few.

He started his career as a freelance satellite television business reporter in Los Angeles and worked as a beat reporter for a local Connecticut cable news channel where he was recognized by the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists for Best Spot News Reporting and Best Investigative Series work.

Dwain’s new non-fiction business book is titled, RESET: How to Beat the Job-Loss Blues and Get Ready for your Next Act (www.resetyourfuture.com), published by Da Capo Press with a foreword by Mika Brzezinski, journalist, best-selling author and co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe. He is also a contributing writer for psychologytoday.com.

Recent Posts
How to Quit Unemployment; Help others get What They Want
One of the best ways to jump back into the workforce, or better yet, create your own set of income streams, is to become a “people connector”. Most long-term unemployed I know have an insufficient network. They live in a career bubble. One of the best ways to build up your network is to take the blinders off and help others get what they want first.
Middle Age Job Seekers need to get Social to Succeed
Many middle age and older workers are taking little comfort these days in the lower national employment rate. Many of those who lost their jobs for one reason or another three to four years ago are still struggling to land even steady part time employment. The “oh boy” moment of how adversely unemployment was affecting me hit in the summer of 2012.
Are You “Relevant” at Job Search?
The long term unemployed need to start thinking like a teenager if they’re going to stay relevant in today’s job market. By now, most job seekers know about the importance of personal branding and managing their online presence. In addition to being good platforms to showcase your expertise, social channels like LinkedIn and Twitter are excellent resources for information
Welcome to the World of Job Insecurity
Chances are, if you didn’t lose your job during the Great Recession or its aftermath, you know someone who did. There has been much written about the damaging psychological affects the recession has caused job seekers as they try to keep it together and get back into the workforce.
Mr. Job Seeker, Show Me Your Résumé… and SAT Scores

As if looking for a job weren’t harrowing enough in this anemic job market, some U.S. companies are now asking 40 and 50 year old job seekers to see their SAT scores along with their résumés—tests they took in high school.

As if looking for a job weren’t harrowing enough in this anemic job market, some U.S. companies are now asking 40 and 50 year old job seekers to see their SAT scores along with their résumés—tests they took in high school.