Brooke Dunwell

Meet Your Guide

A recruiter's mind.
A coach's heart.

I'm Brooke Dunwell — founder of Carbon 3 Recruiting and Momentum Career Hub. I've spent 20+ years on both sides of the hiring table — recruiting for 300+ companies, placing thousands of candidates, and coaching thousands of professionals through layoffs, pivots, promotions, and new beginnings.

Why I built this.

After two decades in recruiting, I noticed the same pattern over and over: brilliant, experienced professionals who couldn't get the phone to ring. Not because they weren't qualified — but because the way the job market works had fundamentally changed, and nobody had told them.

I watched candidates with incredible track records get filtered out by AI screening tools they didn't know existed. I watched people apply to hundreds of jobs with the same resume and wonder why they heard nothing. I watched talented professionals accept offers $20,000–$40,000 below what they could have negotiated — because nobody taught them how.

And the "solutions" available to them? Generic resume mills that spit out templates. Career coaches who offered vague encouragement but no system. Job boards designed to collect applications, not create connections.

"Qualified people being ignored, underpaid, or stuck in roles that drain them — that's unacceptable. I exist to fix that."

So I built Momentum Career Hub to fill the gap that I kept seeing from the hiring side of the table. Not another coaching practice. A career campaign system — combining the insider knowledge of a recruiter with the hands-on guidance of a coach, powered by modern marketing strategy, data, and the kind of company research that most people don't know how to do (and don't have time to learn).

My clients don't just get resumes. They get customized career campaigns — company intelligence reports, hiring leader research, tailored application kits, interview preparation built for specific companies, and negotiation coaching backed by real market data. They get a system that works, a guide who's been in the room where hiring decisions are made, and the confidence to walk into any conversation knowing they belong there.

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Client Results

95%
Secure Interviews
Within 1 Week
27%
Average
Salary Increase
89%
Receive
Multiple Offers
100%
Increase Their
Confidence

What makes this different.

I'm not just a coach — I'm a recruiter who coaches. I've sat in the rooms where hiring decisions are made. I know what gets said after you leave the interview. I know what the AI screens for. I know how offers get built and what levers you can pull to negotiate better ones.

That insider knowledge is baked into everything I build for clients. When I create a company intelligence report, it's built with the same eye I used when I was recruiting for that type of company. When I prep you for an interview, I'm prepping you the way I'd prep a candidate I was personally placing.

My approach is grounded in four principles:

  • Educate to empower — I teach you the system, not just hand you materials
  • Embrace obstacles as learning — every rejection is data, not a dead end
  • Leverage your strengths — we lead with what makes you exceptional
  • Enjoy the journey — career transitions are stressful, but they don't have to be joyless
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The Momentum Ecosystem

Built on 20+ Years of Recruiting Excellence

Momentum Career Hub is the career transformation arm of Carbon 3 Recruiting — the recruiting firm I founded and have led through multiple economic cycles, industry shifts, and thousands of successful placements.

Carbon 3 gives me active, real-time insight into how companies hire, what they pay, and what they look for. Momentum takes that insider knowledge and puts it directly in your hands — through coaching, courses, community, and the career campaign system.

When you work with Momentum, you're working with someone who's still actively in the recruiting world — not someone who left the industry years ago and is teaching from memory.

What Clients Say

★★★★★
"Brooke is not just a cheerleader coach. She is a recruiter and a career coach, which gives me an advantage. She was quickly able to break down how my skills would translate into different industries and roles. Recruiters started reaching out within two days of updating my LinkedIn."
— Warren
★★★★★
"I applied to two jobs the minute I received my new resume and within two hours, I landed interviews with Etsy and Netflix! She helped me shift my perspective and truly recognize my worth."
— Rebekah
★★★★★
"She has an uncanny ability to recognize people's strengths and opportunities that align. I landed interviews within the first week. Without Brooke, I don't think I would have a job right now."
— Alexis
★★★★★
"Brooke was everything I was looking for in a career coach: knowledgeable, inspiring, and most of all effective. I landed three interviews and an offer within a month."
— Scott
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