Tom Washington holds an MA in counseling from Northeastern Illinois University. After joining a private career firm in Seattle in 1978, he established Career Management Resources in Bellevue in 1979. He began providing corporate outplacement assistance in 1982 and has worked with such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation, PACCAR, Microsoft, and Olympic Stain. Tom is a Washington native and a graduate of Western Washington University (1971).

Tom Washington became motivated to help others because of his own frustrations in selecting an appropriate career field and through his difficult job searches. He knows (and can never forget) the feelings caused by lack of career focus, and those difficult times in a search when one wonders if another job will ever be obtained.

In 1985 he published Resume Power: Selling Yourself on Paper, a complete resume writing and job finding guide which has gained significant critical acclaim and praise from users. Now in its fifth edition, it has sold over 130,000 copies and is recognized as one of the top resources available. In 1992 he published The Hunt: Complete Guide to Effective Job Finding, which has been used as a job finding textbook by college instructors and career professionals. In 1995 he published Interview Power: Selling Yourself Face To Face. He has also written the scripts for two highly rated videos on how to interview effectively—You’ve Graduated, What Now? (1994) and Interview Power (1995). Since 1986 he has given over 65 radio and television interviews with stations throughout the US.

Tom has published numerous articles for the National Business Employment Weekly, a publication of the Wall Street Journal. In 1992 he received the "Top Ten" award from the National Business Employment Weekly for his article, "Are You Prepared for Interviewers' New Techniques?" He is a past president of the Puget Sound Career Development Association, an organization representing over one hundred local career counselors.