Your Job Search Doesn’t Define Your Worth, and Neither Does an Employer’s Silence
Maintaining a positive outlook during a cost of living crisis is challenging enough when you’re employed, but for those actively seeking work, the financial and
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Engaging a Strategic Career Specialist makes sense. After all, you’re investing in yourself, your career and your future.
Today’s employment market is highly competitive, with employers and recruiters often assessing hundreds of applications for a single position. What worked on a resume in the past may no longer be enough to secure an interview.
The modern workplace offers greater flexibility and choice, with working from home, hybrid and fully remote opportunities reshaping traditional employment arrangements. However, changing employer expectations, evolving recruitment practices and increased competition mean that securing the right opportunity requires more than simply having the relevant qualifications and experience.
Effectively presenting your professional value, both on paper and in person, remains essential. That’s where Anne McDowell, Strategic Career Specialist, makes the difference. You’re an expert in what you do, and so is Anne.
Whether you need assistance with a single application or ongoing strategic career guidance, Anne’s experience and expertise help you confidently position yourself and maximise your career opportunities.
Interview + Confidence Coaching
Has it been a while since you attended an interview? Do you know how to answer behavioural interviewing questions?
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Competent. Creative. Wordsmith. Insightful.
Inspirational. Compassionate. Intuitive. Friendly.
Is this you, or someone you know?
I don't know how it happened but my confidence is shot
I've reached the top of the tree, but I'm not happy - what's next?
It's time to polish up my Resume so I can apply for my dream job
I can do that job with my eyes shut, but I didn't even get an interview
Just saw the job of my dreams - I need to stand out from the crowd
My Resume worked in the past - how come it's not working now?
Selection Criteria/Focus Capability
I freeze up during interviews
It's time my LinkedIn Profile was updated
I've now got the skills to move up into management roles - need my Resume to be overhauled
I've had such a hard time over the years - I don't know who I am anymore
I need to get out of here - I hate my job
I get really nervous during interviews
Redundancy and Outplacement Coaching
I'm applying for job after job and I can't seem to get an interview
I don't have time to do up my Resume - oh this old one will have to do
I'm at a crossroads - which way should I go?
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If the answer is yes, then it's time you met Anne
Meet Anne McDowell, MHRMan&IR
As a Strategic Career Specialist, holding a Master degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations (majoring in leadership and organisational change) Anne has been providing career services in her own consultancy since 2003.
Finalist - BX xCellence Awards
I'm Anne McDowell, The Master of Change, Leadership and Resilience....The Expert for your radiant and fabulous reinvention—glow-up, level-up, and own your rise, whether the change is your choice or an unwanted surprise!
Reframe challenges, reclaim control, and confidently step into your most powerful, fabulous self - your transformation starts now!
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Navigating the Challenge of Unmotivated Adult or Teen Children
Navigating the Challenge of Unmotivated Adult or Teen Children Navigating the challenge of unmotivated adult or teen children is becoming more common. As parents, you
Professional Resume Services
It is quite common now to change career direction a few times during your lifetime, whereas in the past it was common to have just one job for life!
Sometimes it is difficult to know what you want to do, all you know is what you don’t want to do.
The pandemic has really allowed us to think about our working life and what we want out of it.
Rebuilding Your Confidence
Losing a job and/or not being able to secure a new one in this current climate, affects our wellbeing in many ways, in addition to our obvious financial stress!
It can change the way we feel about ourselves, destroy our confidence and our feelings of worth. It can also interfere with how we move ourselves forward, particularly when we may have been chosen to go and others are chosen to stay.
While we might feel that we are not “depressed” where we have trouble functioning on a daily basis, we may not also realise how this forced “time out” has affected us.
What do I really want to do?
It is quite common now to change career direction a few times during your lifetime, whereas in the past it was common to have just one job for life!
Sometimes it is difficult to know what you want to do, all you know is what you don’t want to do.
The pandemic has really allowed us to think about our working life and what we want out of it.
Professional Resumes
Resumes in the 21st Century are simply the single most important marketing document you will ever own, and are targeted toward a specific job to maximise your chance of success, as a recruiter needs to be able to immediately place you in their role with information relevant to the job they are recruiting for, so a generic one size fits all doesn’t cut it today.
What is a professional resume?
A professional resume is a marketing document that is professionally written by a HR, recruitment and strategic career specialist and expert, so that it markets your talents, skills, attributes and capabilties to your best advantage relevant to the job you are applying for.
What else does anne do?
Anne is also known as: The Master of Change, Leadership and Resilience
Through my consulting, speaking, and transformational learning platform Elevana, I work with individuals, leaders, and organisations to navigate both planned and unplanned change - strengthening self-leadership, emotional intelligence, and resilience. I take people through a real-time, experiential journey of change, showing how differently it impacts us depending on our emotional investment. From there, I help people recalibrate their thinking, work through challenges, and move forward with clarity and intention into what’s next