Sally Cahur

Retired Writer Sharpens Her Skills to Help Those in Need

Battered by a lifetime of persecution, last in line in a sinking economy and with his sole work experience that of guiding expeditions up the Himalayas, the Tibetan Sherpa’s New York job prospects looked bleak. 

That was until he met Sally Cahur, volunteer-extraordinaire, who teams up her talents with the refugee resettlement department at Catholic Charities New York.

Cahur built a career writing and copy editing for Fortune 500 companies.  Now retired, she employs her top-flight skills writing resumes to help some of the hardest-to-place job hunters in New York.  Cahur has written over 300 resumes during the past three years, turning exotic backgrounds into indispensable assets.

She helped a street vendor from Honduras land a job as a cafeteria cashier at Yankee stadium.  She helped a security officer for the Dalai Lama land work as a security guard.  And she helped the Sherpa land work at a sporting goods store where he fits customers for hiking boots while telling them about scaling Mt. Everest.

“She is the prototype of what all volunteers should be,” says Peter Sullivan, a Catholic Charities job developer who works with Cahur.  “She is professional; she is reliable and she doesn’t make mistakes.”

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