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Coaching

"I left my former company about two weeks ago and started a new position as a Financial Analyst. It's a wonderful opportunity and I want to thank Carolyn Kessler for all her help. Without it, I doubt that I could have made this successful career path change."
- Richard Stolz, Financial Analyst

"Throughout my career I continue to employ what I learned from Eric Jacobsen and have found all of his assistance to be invaluable."
- Tom Ahlborn, Project Manager

"Getting an objective opinion and guidance on how to best present my background and varied skills were the most helpful aspects of coaching with Carolyn Kessler."
- Dave Senestraro, Solution Architect, 724 Solutions, Inc.

"I continue to see great value with your service and appreciate all of your help."
- Michael Lamb, Production Appraiser, Washington Mutual Bank

"The consulting services Dr. Jacobsen provided have been extremely helpful in building and expanding my business. I have learned about many areas I didn't even know existed thanks to Dr. Jacobsen's many years of experience in helping people like myself."
- Jeanne McCune, Athena Arts Ltd.

"Carolyn Kessler helped me to see that my situation was not as hopeless as it had seemed by re-focusing me on the options and opportunities. She gave me the confidence and poise that I needed to succeed in any networking or interview situation. She also helped me re-work my resume and the first person who saw it afterward hired me."
- Elizabeth Wiggs, Marketing Coordinator, Mithun, Inc.

"Dr. Eric Jacobsen was considerate of my time and listened carefully to the areas that I wanted to focus on during our coaching sessions. I found his advice constructive and kindly given. His gentle manner and wonderful sense of humor helped me gain confidence as I prepared for extensive interviewing. I found his coaching services quite valuable, and I would highly recommend him to anyone."
- Lisa Smith, Microsoft Corporation

"Dr. Scarborough's strategies, ideas, efforts, actions, and support all provided very effective and productive solutions. Thank you."
- Chris Gildow, CFO, Coldwell Banker Bain Associates

"I have found Janet to be the champion of my professional growth. She has coached me on preventing burnout, on shaping my job to let go of certain things and to outsource when necessary, on building my business, and on balancing my work and life. I appreciate all the different roles she has played as my coach and how well she has transformed for each one. By analyzing my talents and desires and honing in on how I can use those to develop a more enjoyable life, her practical guidance has made my life easier and made me more personal income. I appreciate her ability to be candid, to help me to set and reach goals, to keep my "eye on the ball," and to provide support throughout the month on items of value to my career and the rest of my life."
- Lisa Schultz, Account Manager, First American Title Insurance Company

"In today's tough economic climate, I run a company that has achieved profitability while experiencing rapid growth. In a period of limited resources and high demand for quick and effective decisions, Bridgeway Career Development has helped me to decipher the important issues from the urgent ones, create working strategies and timelines for implementation, and to analyze progress and avoid many of the pitfalls that plague so many CEOs today in start-up businesses. For me, managing numbers has been the easy part. Managing people has been the real challenge, and executive coaching with Janet Scarborough has been extremely helpful in facilitating my strategic planning and leadership skills."
- George Grubb, CEO, PlayStream

"Executive coaching with Dr. Janet Scarborough has been extremely beneficial to a "Serial Entrepreneur" like myself in dealing with the sometimes roller coaster nature of my career path. I have found that working with her on everything from personal goal setting to staff issues has helped not only me but my company's bottom line."
- Pat Scanlon, Consultant

"Janet is a supportive and caring coach who believes in the ability of a person to evaluate their goals and determine if the life they are leading is in harmony with the life they envision for themselves. She provided the tools and encouragement I needed to leave my corporate job and I've never been happier. I am now a Yoga teacher and I have a business where I assist others to launch and manage their own successful businesses."
- Susan Boling, Shanthi Yoga / Sunrider

"Coaching with Janet helped me to launch my current career. It's amazing how easy everything can be when you gain a little focus."
- Chris Haddad, Haddad Ink

"The most helpful thing about Janet's services is their comprehensive nature across my work "life-cycle." I've worked with Janet through times of unemployment, employment, searching for a new job, interviewing and overall in learning how to find and remain happy in my job. This involved everything from resume writing, interview practice, networking techniques, work-style assessment, managing the annual review process and even general life skill-building techniques. I can't think of any other single person who has been more helpful across so many areas of my working life."
- Joshua Burgin, Systems Project Manager, Perkins Coie LLP

"While job searching is not fun in any case, Janet's help made this the most successful and satisfying job search I've ever been through.  I could not be happier about my new job."
- Debi Robson, Project Manager, Sakson & Taylor

"The most helpful aspects of Janet's coaching services were her guidance regarding my resume, her ability to be a sanity check and sounding board, her industry expertise, and the accountability she provided (she was a gentle but firm partner and she held me accountable to do what is needed)."
- Dave Fox, Senior Vice President, Sales and Business Development, LiveWire Logic, Inc.

"I used Bridgeway Career Development's services for senior level strategizing and coaching during a career transition. I appreciated the advocacy and encouragement. Janet Scarborough has a strong understanding of the Seattle labor market, particularly regarding technology careers, which was very useful for my situation."
- Suzanne Fuller, Director of Sales, Adaptis

"The Myers-Briggs and other personality / work style assessments were helpful, combined with Janet's expertise on how my profile fit with my current job. My phone appointments with Janet gave me a broader perspective, so I was able to get "unstuck" from a bad situation. Since I've worked with her, I've transformed from a miserable 9 to 5'er to a job that I appreciate, and in turn, I'm appreciated. I found a job that pays for all of my graduate school education! Janet also helped me to define my long-term goals and to take some risks. The investigative interviewing was vital. I found her step-by-step process of picking up the phone and asking specific questions was crucial to my self-discovery. Converting the abstract to the concrete (setting realistic, attainable goals and working toward them) is what helped me."
- Susannah Buzard, Graduate Student

"When I came to Janet for coaching, I was plagued with the question, 'What matters?' Janet helped me focus on my strengths, my values, and most of all, helped me to identify some very up-to-date resources for finding new ideas and new directions. Thanks to her, I found my path. I am now the owner of a resume writing business. I help people express the best in themselves, and in looking for the positives in others, it has given many positives to me. I love it. Janet's background in technology, marketing, and psychology is unique in the Seattle job counseling scene. Now I’ve found the work I love, I still use her consulting services to help me stay focused and to maintain balance in my work life."
- Alice Hanson, Owner, Aim Resumes

"I felt that my interview skills were not getting me the offers I wanted. Janet helped me to identify ways to convey what I can do and come across as not only a highly competent candidate but also the only candidate for the position."
- Dylan Wilbanks, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine

"Working with Janet validated my feelings about how to approach my job search and reinforced my conviction that I was on the right track even though I hadn't been successful to date. This gave me renewed enthusiasm for my job search as I was beginning to feel that I was spinning my wheels without progress. On a practical level, I learned several 'tips and tricks' of job hunting and I was introduced to several new avenues of job leads. I found it extremely useful to brainstorm with someone who lives and breathes job searching and recruiting and who has diverse experience and anecdotal knowledge about what has a high likelihood of success and what does not."
- Mark Johnson, Starbucks Corp.

"Janet's calm professional approach combined with the facts and realities of job searching were absolutely superb. Her wise counsel enabled me to tackle the job market in a planned and well organized campaign."
- Jay Ebbeson, City of Olympia

"I highly recommend Janet's career coaching services. She took the time to help me assess my strengths before prioritizing tasks for my job search and she is very knowledgeable about job industries, especially high tech. I got a great new job!"
- Sue Lohman, MSN

"What I found most helpful in using Bridgeway Career Development's services were the suggestions and recommendations for where my efforts should be focused in both job search and interview preparation. Janet provided constructive moral support throughout the entire job search process. The interview coaching immediately before my interview was invaluable."
- Tony Monk, Ph.D., The Boeing Company

"Janet provided very personalized service and her suggestions were current, as opposed to dated advice from a book or even a magazine. She knew about great resources and she gave me the language I needed (and the courage) to redesign a job I disliked into a job that I enjoy. In addition, she helped me to set long-term goals for my career."
- Laurel Anderson

Training and Facilitation

"Janet's knowledge of the software development industry, her experience with software professionals, and her excellent facilitation skills were tremendous assets to our leadership program. Her first-rate presentation reflects both her business and interpersonal savvy. We highly recommend her."
- Leslie Martinich, Software Quality Institute, The University of Texas at Austin

"When Janet shared her expertise at two career forums: "Making a Layoff into an Advantage" and "Effectively Presenting Yourself in a Job Search," she gave good advice, sound examples and presented research that was informative as well as inspiring. She has a calm and easy manner in her presentations and is open to her audience. She's also organized and easy to follow as she presents. Janet's passion for helping people find their own way comes through clearly. She blends both her personal and professional knowledge and experience with her academic knowledge and studies. She is a favorite presenter at Centerpoint."
- Pam Nagel, Volunteer Forum Coordinator, Centerpoint Institute for Life and Career Renewal, a nonprofit organization

"Janet's presentation on private practice marketing was enthusiastically received by our psychology interns. I appreciate Janet's optimism about psychology's ability to improve the quality of life for clients, and she exhibits a savvy ability to translate social science understanding into pragmatic techniques that clinicians can use to achieve self-employment success."
- Monna Wier, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology Internship Training Director, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, American Lake

"Janet's recent presentation on the changing landscape of the career counseling profession was timely and helpful. She is especially knowledgeable about technology's impact on the career development profession and on the increasing level of skills required of the clients we assist. I highly recommend Janet as a speaker."
- Terry Pile, Puget Sound Career Development Association