We offer professional help with all aspects of your career. Our services are tailored especially for your needs, giving a unique mix of careers advice, guidance, coaching, and counselling. Whatever your career problem or challenge, we can help. Our principal consultant is Suzanne Collier, who has successfully helped many people attain their career goals. All our Careers Consultants are professionally qualified in Careers Guidance to NVQ Level 6 or higher and participate in their own continuous professional development, so you can rest assured they are up to date with new trends and industry standards.

Although we predominantly work within the book industry, the majority of our professional expertise is transferable and we regularly help those outside of the industry and from all walks of life. In particular, we have a large client base from other areas of the media, including television, broadcast and journalism.

Career Development
Career Guidance
Employability Consultations
Interview Coaching
Career Management
Career Strategy
Career Crossroads
Coaching
Careers Line

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About Suzanne Collier

Employability Consultations
When you are looking for a job it helps to have qualified careers guidance when reviewing your CV, your covering letters, your application form or your job search or what is going on with your career right now.

We talk to industry employers all the time about their recruitment methods so are in touch with trends in CVs and jobhunting – and our knowledge base reaches small start-ups to large international companies. We’re independent and impartial – so we talk to every company in the industry and especially ask them what they are looking for when they are recruiting you.

Our aim within an employability consultation is to make you more employable without compromising your career aims and ambitions. You don’t have to be looking for a job to be ‘more employable’ – may be there are issues at work which are detracting from your career aims
Only a person qualified in Careers Guidance can help you make career decisions,  Or you’re wondering whether a particular career path is right for you and would just like a quick chat with ‘someone who knows’ we’ve introduced a mini consultation just for you. This is a 35 minute telephone appointment via Skype or a BT line, and you’ll be able to email us documents to review during the call. (We recommend 3 documents to get the best out of the call). The all inclusive cost is £45.

You are also able to pre-book a course of three Mini-Consultations for a fee of £125 instead of £135, with payment in full made at the time of the first consultation. This is a useful support package to follow up from a Career Development or Career Management consultation..

To book either a mini consultation or a series of consultations please email us at support @ bookcareers.com

Career Development
This is a catch-all package which focuses on you and your job search. We will discuss your career options and what publishing roles could make best use of your skills.
When you are looking for a job it can be a very lonely process, where you receive conflicting information about your CV, your experience, what jobs you should be looking for, how to style your applications, write covering letters etc. We will work with you on a one-to-one basis, advising on all of this, including how to pitch yourself, and help you formulate an action plan.
If you want to showcase your skills to put your application ahead of the pack, or need help focussing on how to create the perfect covering letter, we can help.
We will discuss the publishing roles most suited to your skills and show you how to attract employers, then help you get where you want to be.
Job searching can be a very isolating process, with conflicting advice about CVs, experience, styling your applications and covering letters.
By supporting you one-to-one as you job search, you can feel empowered as you pitch yourself and formulate an action plan to get that dream job.
We have helped people get promotions, change career and move to different sectors including bookselling to publishing and academic to trade. The Career Development Package is tailored to your individual job search, and supplemented with either Mini Consultations or our Careers Line – so you only pay for the support that you need.
If you want to showcase your skills to put your application ahead of the pack, or need help focussing on how to create the perfect covering letter, we can help.
We will discuss the publishing roles most suited to your skills and show you how to attract employers, then help you get where you want to be.

We also provide a comprehensive tailor-made package for people looking to switch departments in any direction – from marketing to editorial, sales to editorial and editorial to marketing to name some of the most popular moves. We work face-to-face (appointment time 2 hours) or via Skype/BT (2 x 50 minute appointments).

If you feel a Career Development appointment is for you, please email support @ bookcareers.com and we’ll fit you in to our next available slot.

Career Management
Not making the right impression in your job? Struggling with too many items on your desk (which no amount of time management training seems to resolve)? Then book a consultation. You can discuss everything that is going on at your work-place in a completely confidential atmosphere; you can bring your intray or company confidential documents and know that they will go no further. Best of all, when you discuss all those things you haven’t yet done, you won’t get fired! Instead, you will get realistic, practical one-to-one advice about how to organise your busy job and how best to manage your day-to-day challenges. To get the best out of a Career Management appointment a face-to-face meeting is essential.

If you feel a Career Management appointment is for you, please email support @ bookcareers.com and we’ll fit you in to our next available slot.

Career Strategy
In an industry that is changing and developing at a fast pace, you need to be developing yourself and creating a strategy or career plan to help you make the next move, particularly if you are looking to move up the career ladder. Our career strategy appointment can help you do that, advise you on the routes that are available to you and help you plan your career and acheive your goals.

Career Crossroads
Over the years we’ve met many people who aren’t sure whether publishing is for them, or whether they want to move into publishing. If you are feeling mismatched in your job or would like to ‘do something different’, then a career crossroads appointment may help. We don’t do psychometric testing, instead will set you some of our own career tests and sit and listen and use our expertise to guide you to make the right choices.

Other information
Every package you book is tailor made to your requirements – you can choose from face-to-face, telephone or Skype sessions. Then, if you’d like to continue you have the choice of buying extra telephone coaching or Skype support for as long as you need. Alternatively you can dip in and out of support via our premium rate number.

You will be given the same level of confidentiality that you have come to expect from your doctor; although we may know of people you mention in our discussions; we do not discuss our work nor our clients with anyone. People will not know that you have used our services.
Industry trends, employment trends and training needs change rapidly so we are continually updating our own professional development by attending seminars, workshops, networking and through our memberships of the Careers Profession Alliance and the Independent Publishers Guild.

We aim to give you the tools that you need to find your own career and ways forward but we make no guarantees that you will find a new job or a better career as a result of using these services.

If you are interested in booking an appointment, please email support @ bookcareers.com.