About Eve

Summary
Eve is an experienced and qualified career consultant and coach, who supports people to narrate their story to increase self awareness and generate action.  She is a qualified and experienced adult teacher, who encourages reflective practice to enhance and promote self-directed learning.  With extensive experience of developing, planning, delivering, promoting and evaluating a range of learning programmes, including employability programmes in higher education.  She has also conducted several research projects from start to finish, including those within higher education.

Some more detail
Eve has 12 years’ experience in careers guidance, education, information and advice, working mainly with those early in their career, mid career or making a career change, including those caught in the ongoing contract cycle.  Her particular interest is in encouraging people to review their current career situation, increase their self knowledge and explore wider options.  We “never really know what we can do until we try” (William Cobbett).  Understanding our wishes enables easier career choices and decisions and leads to more satisfying careers.  She does think of career in terms of careers these days, as with constantly changing labour market landscapes, there is a need to take ownership of our career across a life time.  Eve’s career practice teaches people to be forward thinking, adaptable and ready to make the most of opportunities that provide a range of career paths.
In 2019 she completed a Masters degree in Career Guidance, building on her previous PG Cert.  Her 25,000 word dissertation researched the use of Savickas’ Career Adapt-Ability Inventory with Postgraduate Researchers and the findings showed how useful this inventory was in identifying the current career situation, areas for development and led to completers more readily identifying their own actions – making them more likely to undertake them.  The inventory also easily generated discussion, enhanced reflection across all stages of completion and subsequent discussion and provided a visual representation for current and future reference.

A degree specialism in lifelong learning and an adult teaching qualification has led Eve to teach a range of personal and professional development subjects to varied adult learners, including those in the commercial sector, further and higher education, on both accredited and non-accredited courses.  She has also gained substantial experience of designing and managing learning programmes for adult learners from those including numerous diverse subjects to programmes focussing on a single subject across differing aspects eg career related topics.

As a result of her keen interest in understanding how best to support personal and professional development Eve has undertaken research in a range of areas – from levels of engagement in learning following a traumatic life event, managing research projects, students’ experience of completing their own research project and several substantial career related projects.

 

Qualifications and Memberships
MA Career Education, Information and Guidance (in Higher Education)
PGCert Education, Information and Guidance (in Higher Education)
BA Hons – Social Studies (primarily Lifelong Learning modules) - Warwick
Further Adult Education Teaching Certificate
ILM Level 5 Coaching and Mentoring
NLP (Prac)
Career Development Institute
Association of Graduate Career Advisory Services

 

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”.  Marianne Williamson