Accredited Career Practitioners

Personal Details

Careers Advisor: No Image

Name: Jeanette Duffell
Email: jeanette.duffell@acsol.co.uk
Serves: Devon, Dorset and Somerset

Personal Profile

An Occupational Psychologist and Careers Adviser with a wide range of work experience across a number of industries including Retailing, Education, Public Sector and Finance. I enjoy being able to work with people from different backgrounds helping them to get jobs or make a career change.

And as a complete contrast when not working I am helping to create a two acre flower, fruit and vegetable garden with dreams of serving cream teas to admiring guests in the future.

Professional Information

ACSOL Accredited Careers Advisor

Relevant Qualifications

  • Diploma in Careers Guidance
  • Masters in Occupational and Organisational Psychology
  • Certificate in Coaching
  • Certificate in the Psychology of Coaching
  • Certificate in stress management
  • Level A and B qualified in Psychometric testing.

Skills & Achievements in Career Guidance

My greatest achievements are when one of my clients really does get that job or start a new business or start a new course.
My skill is in knowing how to help someone to make a decision, to offer new insights in to their situation and to help to identify any changes they need to make. All my successful clients also work very hard throughout the process so I always believe the real achievement is with them.
The range of skills I use include;

  • C.V Writing
  • Interview preparation
  • Career review and planning
  • Motivation and life review.
  • Skills development in time management, organisational skills, making decisions, interpersonal skills, managing stress, Overcoming procrastination and problem solving.
  • Study skills development

Experience in Career Guidance

I started work in East London providing guidance to young people in schools and colleges and then moved to supporting unemployed Adults in the last recession.

Having worked successfully as an Adviser I then worked in a range of management roles organising and training people to deliver careers guidance and other support services, managing large contracts and developing new services. This included a lot of experience of leading organisational change. This was both challenging and exciting but after 9 years I felt I wanted to return to my ‘roots’ as I enjoy most helping people to develop and make the most of their situations. I updated my skills completing training in Coaching and Stress Management and now have a happy portfolio of work providing careers guidance and coaching services, working as an Open University Associate Lecturer and providing management development and selection services to employers. Doing such a variety of work keeps me up to date with the employment market.