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Career Steps Consulting helps experienced professionals reconnect with their passion, determine their goals, and build a powerful career. If you can answer YES to any of the following questions, we can help you.



Are You:

  • Confused about your next career move?
  • Thinking about starting your own business?
  • Stuck in a dead end job with a boss you hate?
  • Dealing with difficult work place issues?
  • Afraid to negotiate for what you are worth?

Career Steps For You

If you already have an appointment please click here to fill out the initial questionnaire.

How We Work Together:
Through one-to-one consulting and customized career strategy coaching, we are committed to helping you manage and market your career and get you where you want to go professionally. We help you take the first step toward the career you want.

Whether it is a promotion, work place or performance issues, or a new career, there are challenges along the way and it takes courage and determination to achieve success. Since 1995, Susan Urquhart-Brown, principal of Career Steps Consulting & Coaching, has assisted hundreds make change easier and faster. Check out What Clients Say.

Call for a free 15-minute telephone consultation

Telephone: (510) 654-4352
Email: susanub@careersteps123.com

Ready for a career move?

After years of not being able to find my career direction, Susan was instrumental in my decision to enter the field of city and regional planning. Her compassionate, insightful, knowledgeable counseling made a big difference at every step along the way. I’ve worked with a lot of consultants, and I’ve done a lot of consulting myself.  I have developed a way to evaluate any kind of helping professional. I simply ask myself two questions after each meeting: 1) Did I come out of the meeting with new knowledge that I could act on? 2) Did I come out of the meeting feeling more encouraged about my project than when I went in? Susan has always passed both tests with flying colors, at every single meeting. I would recommend her highly!
-David Schecter

Want to get clear, set goals, and make it happen?

This 3-step career management process will get you where you want to go:

  • Clarify your marketable skills and unique assets
  • Brainstorm and determine your best fit career options. Analyze and pinpoint the gap between what you want to do and what the market will pay you for!
  • Design a game plan with built in accountability

These steps appear simple; however, procrastination and fear often make them difficult. We offer essential follow through coaching to help you navigate the rough spots of your career moves.

We use a variety of career assessment tools, including:

  • Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator
  • Strong Occupational Interest Inventory/career report
  • Skillscan for repackaging transferable skills
  • Values Search

You will develop skills in:

  • Setting Realistic Achievable Goals 
  • Networking Strategically 
  • Using Informational Interviews Effectively
  • Salary negotiation and interviewing
  • Developing A Practical Self-Marketing Plan 

In individual consulting sessions in person or by telephone, we offer:

  • Professional career planning guidance
  • Tips & techniques for dealing with workplace issues
  • Follow through coaching
  • On Track Accountability
  • Feedback and Support

Fee: $120 per one hour session in person or via telephone

Career Coaching Package: $225 per month for 4-30minute phone consultations (savings of 6%)

Please call (510) 654-4352 for details.


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