Anne Sparks, M.L.S.

Areas of Expertise

Anne enjoys helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed with the job search process, making a career change or moving ahead professionally. She especially likes assisting clients in discovering their skills and abilities, their personality and temperament and how these affect their career satisfaction. She can help them break down the job search process into smaller more manageable steps so that she and her client can design their own individual plan for moving ahead.

Currently, she is particularly sympathetic to those many new grads and generation X’ers who are in the grip of the newly identified “quarterlife crisis”. Many young adults between the ages of 23 and 35 are really struggling to find their way in an increasingly complicated culture which offers endless options at the same time it often demands graduate school with its attendant GRE exams and huge financial obligations. Together these factors are creating a kind of paralysis or quarterlife crisis that is real and all too overwhelming for so many young people. She can help them sort through their fears, show them how to identify skills and accomplishments, understand the hidden job market, how to build a network and then make a realistic plan based on their own individual interests and abilities.

Background

Anne has over 23 years of experience in the career development field. She was Program Director at Alumnae Resources/lifeprint for 19 years where she designed and managed the program of 850 workshops and taught basic job search workshops. She worked as marketing manager for Susan Ireland’s Resume Consulting Services, as a trainer/consultant with Drake, Beam Morin, an outplacement company, and for the Marin Employment Connection, a One-Stop Career Center. She has extensive teaching experience and taught numerous workshops on resume writing, informational interviewing, and interviewing skills.

Anne has been interviewed by numerous local radio and news publications and was a career expert for the monthly Worker’s Dozen Column in the SF Chronicle. She has spoken publicly to dozens of Bay Area professional groups, was the featured interview for two Deepbrook Video Productions films on job search techniques and a guest speaker on the television show Good Morning America.

Credentials

• Post-Graduate Certificate, Career Development, JFK University
• Teaching Credential, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Student Teacher of the Year Award
• Masters in Library Science, University of Michigan
• Member of the Career Planning & Adult Development Network

Contact Info

Email: Anne.sparks@sbcglobal.net
Phone: (415) 398-4881 ext. 363