Paul Mathews, President and Founder.

Paul is a seasoned executive with a demonstrated record of success building careers, helping clients achieve long term career goals, establishing strategic alliances, and guiding, developing and implementing proactive strategies to achieve desired results. He has held increasingly responsible leadership roles in Career Management and other industries. He "led the country" in terms of clients signing employment contracts in 2003 and 2004 for a national career management firm prior to launching Hire Aspirations.

Paul’s abilities to motivate others, develop and organize strategic plans, and recognize new opportunities are the main reasons he has consistently met or exceeded ambitious goals.

Before becoming one of the principals of Hire Aspirations, Paul was recognized as the highest performing Career Advisor at one of this area's largest career development agencies.  

As an executive with significant management responsibility in Finance, Operations and Marketing in small and large corporations, Paul possesses a well-rounded background in business nationally and internationally. He has also been successful as an entrepreneur in retail, management consulting and marketing, creating and growing three separate enterprises while developing his career in business.

After graduating from the University of Connecticut with a degree in accounting, Paul obtained a position in a mid-size public accounting firm. After a year, he was hired to create and implement an accounting and finance department for a new U.S. subsidiary of the multinational chemical giant Hoechst-Celanese, AG.

With accelerated advancement, the entire U.S. subsidiary came under his management. The scope of his career broadened, with additional responsibilities in areas away from accounting and into marketing, operations and technology. As the company grew in terms of revenues and employees, so did Paul's exposure to upper
management overseas. Paul eventually became the youngest officer in the company, being elected Treasurer in 1994. The U.S. subsidiary was recognized as the most efficient subsidiary three years in a row within the Hoechst-Celanese Group.

Paul accepted a position as Vice President, Operations, Marketing and Finance with Jord Construction, LLC in 1996. At Jord, he and the president spearheaded a marketing campaign, which would increase the revenues tenfold. He accepted the responsibilities associated with growing a business extremely rapidly. He created
strategic alliances nationwide, within the construction industry nationally, which caused this previously one-client operation to grow to twenty-six clients.

During his twenty-year career, Paul served two terms as a board member of the Associated Builders and Contractors. He was also involved with the Retail Contractors Association and the Chemical Manufacturers Association in various
roles. He Chaired the Membership Services Committee of Associated Builders and Contractors and spearheaded an "affinity program" for new and existing members, which nearly doubled membership through retention and growth.

Paul also had a parallel career as an entrepreneur, creating three successful businesses. He owned a video store in Fairfield, CT from the late eighties to
the early nineties. Paul was managing partner of Mathews and Associates, which was a brokerage house for service contracts for home-based businesses. He also created Marketing Outsourcing, LLC, whose mission is to provide professional
marketing planning and techniques to create sustainable business relationships, designed to bring positive results to clients in a short period of time.

Paul's interests in athletics, magic, and reading formed the foundation to the skills, leadership styles, business intuition, and success he has realized throughout his career. His enthusiasm, conceptual approach to developing intricate marketing strategies and competitiveness are factors his clients will interpret as key value points in assisting them reach their goals.