Team credentials

Ray Dance CMF, IEng, MIED, MREC
Director and Senior Consultant

Ray is a Director and Senior Consultant with Barthropp Career Consultants, a firm which he established in 1993. He is an experienced Career Management Consultant, specialising in Career Change and Development, Executive Coaching and Career Transition. He works with private individuals and corporate clients in a highly practical and motivational way, helping them to identify a career direction, plan for career success and secure new employment. He also works with organisations assisting them identify and develop their employees' career aspirations more effectively.
Committed to his own ongoing professional development, he has received training from a number of highly regarded, internationally recognised organisations, including the Hudson Institute, Coachworks International, Corporate Coach U and the Coachville School of Coaching. He is a Career Management Fellow, accredited by the Institute of Career Certification International . An active member of the Association of Career Professionals International, of which he is a former UK Board Member, he is currently a Governor on the World Board of the Institute of Career Certification International.
His earlier career included working as a Design Engineer, Lecturer and Training Manager before he changed career direction and industry sector to join IBM. This new career, in the field of Sales and Marketing and subsequently International Account Management, involved him in the development of existing and new business partners.
Ray believes people should have the opportunity to gain job satisfaction and career development, in line with their abilities and aspirations. It is his opinion that this should be achieved partly by employers' career development support for their employees as well as individuals' personal investment and management of their careers.

Judith M Sharp
Director and Business Manager
Member of the Association of Career Professionals International

A widely experienced professional in the business of Career Management including specialist areas of planning and managing large redundancy programmes; benefits for the unemployed; CV development and production; report compilation and production; internet research involving job search, company search and business information.Highly effective in the use of personal computer applications, production of marketing material and market research. Conversant with all aspects of small business management.
She has involvement with the Association of Career Professionals International and the Institute of Career Certification International and benefits from business relationships with a number of experts in Career Transition, Executive Recruitment and Executive Coaching.
Since 1992, Judith has played a major part in establishing a Career Management organisation, of which she is a Director and the Business Manager, with full responsibilities for business control and customer care services. Additionally, during this period she has been trained in the compilation of Employment Reports in connection with Personal Injury cases by one of the UK 's leading Personal Injury Employment specialists. She has also attended Expert Witness seminars from a Law Society approved source. She carries out research into employment matters and focuses on those areas affecting disabled people.
Previous experience was gained in the Department of Employment, with particular knowledge of benefits for the unemployed, and in Quality Assurance for GlaxoSmithKline.

Credentials

Fellow Practitioner of the Institute of Career Certification International
Governor of World Board of Institute of Career Certification International
Incorporated Engineer
Member of the Institute of Engineering Designers
Member of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation
Member and former UK Director of The Association of Career Professionals International

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