We offer professional help with all aspects of your career. Each of our services is tailored especially for your needs, giving a unique mix of 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.

Although our services are primarily for the book industry, our services are applicable to all, 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, radio and journalism.

Career Development
Career Management
Other Information
CV Advice
About Suzanne Collier

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. We cover all types of job moves, including promotions, changing different department (e.g. Marketing to Editorial, Editorial to Marketing, Sales to Editorial etc.) and people transferring from different sectors (e.g. Bookselling to Publishing, Academic to Trade, Magazines or Journals to Books).

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.

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, Skype or email support for as long as you need.

All clients are given a free 20-minute pre-screening consultation (for the price of a normal BT call). There is no obligation on either side to continue: we have a high code of ethics and will take you on only if we think we can help.

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 both the Association of Career Professionals and the Institute of Career Guidance.

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.