Kimberly Spencer — Career Coach & Recruiting Partner
Strategic. Personal.
Genuinely Invested in You.
Kimberly Spencer brings recruiting expertise and a sharp eye for candidate positioning to every coaching engagement — helping marketing and creative professionals present themselves with clarity, confidence, and a strategy that actually holds up under scrutiny.
- Kansas City Metro
- Career & Job Search Coach for all Industries/Levels.
- Resume Transformation + LinkedIn Optimization + Personal Branding
- Complete Job Search Coaching
- Recruiting Partner — The Spencer Group
Recruiting Background. Coaching Heart.
Meet Kimberly Spencer
Kimberly Spencer came to career coaching through recruiting — which means she arrived with something most coaches don’t have: a clear, firsthand understanding of what hiring managers actually see when they look at a resume, review a LinkedIn profile, or sit across from a candidate in an interview.
That perspective is the foundation of everything she does. Whether she’s rewriting a resume that’s been sending the wrong signals for years, reworking a LinkedIn summary that undersells everything the candidate actually brings, or preparing someone for the hardest interview questions they’re going to face, Kimberly’s starting point is always the same — what does the person on the other side of this see, and how do we make sure it’s what you actually intend?
Beyond developing strong marketing materials, including their resume and LinkedIn profile, Kimberly helps clients define their unique value proposition, strengthen their personal brand, and build a strategic approach to effectively market themselves to prospective employers. She also provides interview preparation and coaching, as well as guidance through salary negotiations.
Kimberly’s coaching style is direct without being harsh, strategic without being formulaic, and always personalized to the specific person in front of her. She doesn’t hand out templates. She doesn’t deliver generic advice dressed up as insight. She listens, assesses, and builds a plan that reflects where you actually are — and where you genuinely want to go.
Part of Something Bigger
Working alongside Jen Spencer at The Spencer Group gives Kimberly a distinct advantage as a coach: she’s embedded in the same market her clients are trying to navigate. She knows the KC agencies. She knows the brand-side companies. She knows the roles that are genuinely in demand and the skills that are differentiating candidates right now. That’s not secondhand knowledge — it’s the same intelligence that drives the firm’s recruiting practice, applied directly to the coaching work.
That combination — recruiting market knowledge, coaching expertise, and genuine investment in each client’s outcome — is what makes working with Kimberly different from a generic career coaching engagement.
Where Kimberly Makes the Most Difference
Kimberly has a particular gift for helping candidates who are stuck — the professionals who know their work is strong but can’t figure out why their search isn’t moving. The issue is almost never the candidate’s qualifications. It’s almost always the packaging: a resume that buries the best material, a LinkedIn that reads like a job description instead of a professional story, or an interview approach that fails to translate experience into the language a hiring manager needs to hear
Resume
Transformation
Turning a list of job duties into an outcome-driven document that communicates value, catches recruiter attention, and clears ATS filters without losing the human story underneath.
LinkedIn Profile Optimization
Headline rewrites that work. About sections that actually sound like you. Experience entries that position what you’ve done as evidence of what you can do next. Keyword strategy versus keyword stuffing.
Interview
Preparation
Preparation for the questions that trip people up — behavioral interviews, salary conversations, “tell me about yourself,” and the curveballs that feel impossible until you’ve practiced them.
Career Positioning
Helping candidates who’ve done interesting, valuable work figure out how to talk about it in a way that translates — especially those making lateral moves, pivots, or stepping up to a new level.
Job Search Strategy
Moving candidates from passive application mode to an active, relationship-based search strategy that generates real conversations — not just application confirmation emails.
Portfolio Review
For creative, digital, and marketing candidates — reviewing the portfolio for impact, flow, and presentation. What to include, what to cut, and how to frame case studies so the work speaks clearly.
Book a Session with Kimberly
Whether you need a resume overhaul, a LinkedIn rework, interview prep, or a full strategy session — Kimberly will give you an honest assessment and a practical plan. No fluff. No generic advice.