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The collection

Tools for your
next chapter.

Practical digital resources for career decisions, confident applications, and more room for yourself.

Find your starting point.

Eight focused toolkits. Choose the question you want to work through, at your own pace.

Career Direction

The Next Move Decision System

Career Direction

The Next Move Decision System

Compare your options. Choose a next move you can test.

For the moment between staying, changing roles, and starting again.

Contents & formats

Start Here PDF · 5 content PDFs · 2 XLSX tools

  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Decision Workbook
  • Values and Non-Negotiables
  • Strengths Evidence
  • Weighted Decision Matrix
  • Role Research and Assumption Testing
  • 14-Day Experiment Plan
  • Worked Case Example
€39
The Return to Work Toolkit

Career Direction

The Return to Work Toolkit

Turn your experience and career break into a credible return story.

For returning after parental leave, caring responsibilities, or another career break.

Contents & formats

6 PDFs · 2 editable Word files

  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Guided Return to Work Workbook
  • Achievement and Transferable Skills Inventory
  • Gap Narrative Builder
  • US and UK Examples
  • LinkedIn and Profile Building Blocks
  • Career Break and Flexibility Conversation Scripts
  • 30-Day Action Plan
€45

Applications and Offers

The Application Story Kit

Applications and Offers

The Application Story Kit

Build an application around evidence, not empty adjectives.

For a specific role you want to apply for.

Contents & formats

1 Excel workbook · 4 editable Word files · 3 PDFs

  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Job Description Match
  • Achievement Bullet Builder
  • US Resume Template
  • UK CV Template
  • Cover Letter and Application Email Building Blocks
  • Annotated Before and After Examples
  • Final Review Card
€35
The Interview Story Studio

Applications and Offers

The Interview Story Studio

Find your real examples. Practise telling them with clarity.

For an interview coming up in the next few days or weeks.

Contents & formats

5 PDFs · 2 Excel workbooks · 1 editable Word file

  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Story bank — XLSX
  • Question-to-story map — XLSX
  • Answer workbook with STAR variations — PDF
  • Role and employer research sheet — PDF
  • Practice and feedback sheet — PDF
  • Follow-up email templates — DOCX
  • 48-hour preparation plan and examples — PDF

Build eight to ten stories from your own experience, not someone else’s scripted success.

€49
The Offer and Salary Kit

Applications and Offers

The Offer and Salary Kit

See the whole offer. Prepare the conversation that matters.

For a concrete offer or an upcoming salary conversation.

Contents & formats

4 PDFs · 2 Excel workbooks · 1 editable Word file

  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Preparation workbook — PDF
  • Salary research source log — XLSX
  • Total-offer comparison — XLSX
  • Conversation scripts — PDF
  • Clarification and counteroffer emails — DOCX
  • Decision checklist — PDF
€29

Identity and Boundaries

Beyond Your Roles

Identity and Boundaries

Beyond Your Roles

Reconnect with what matters beyond the roles you hold.

For transitions when your own needs get lost behind work, care, and expectations.

Contents & formats
  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Reflection workbook — PDF
  • Roles map — PDF
  • Values and needs cards — PDF
  • Three-option possibility lab — PDF
  • Two-week experiment plan — PDF
  • Decision review sheet — PDF
€39
Boundaries in Real Life

Identity and Boundaries

Boundaries in Real Life

Find words for your boundary—and prepare for the response.

For a specific situation at work, at home, or in a relationship.

Contents & formats
  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Boundary situation audit — PDF
  • Wishes, requests, and boundaries guide — PDF
  • Workplace scripts — DOCX
  • Family and everyday scripts — DOCX
  • Responses to pushback — PDF
  • Practice sheets and examples — PDF
  • Compact conversation cards — PDF

Power dynamics and safety matter. “Just say no” is not a universal solution.

€39
The Invisible Work Reset

Identity and Boundaries

The Invisible Work Reset

Make unseen work visible. Share ownership, not just tasks.

For mental load at home and overlooked extra work in your job.

Contents & formats
  • Start Here guide — PDF
  • Visible and invisible work inventory — PDF
  • Ownership matrix — XLSX
  • Handover protocol — PDF
  • Household and care conversation guide — PDF
  • Weekly check-in — PDF
  • Non-promotable work audit — PDF
  • Fair-division and escalation examples — PDF

The person carrying the load should not have to carry all the work of changing it.

€39

A path that fits together.

Bundles bring related toolkits together. Each contains the same resources as the individual products.

Career Change Path bundle

BUNDLE

Career Change Path

From choosing a direction to considering an offer.

  • The Next Move Decision System
  • The Application Story Kit
  • The Interview Story Studio
  • The Offer and Salary Kit

€109

€152 individual value · Save €43

Back to Work Path bundle

BUNDLE

Back to Work Path

A connected path from your return story to the interview.

  • The Return to Work Toolkit
  • The Application Story Kit
  • The Interview Story Studio

€95

€129 individual value · Save €34

Reclaim Your Space bundle

BUNDLE

Reclaim Your Space

Reconnect with yourself, set boundaries, and rethink responsibility.

  • Beyond Your Roles
  • Boundaries in Real Life
  • The Invisible Work Reset

€85

€117 individual value · Save €32

One small place to begin.

Nine focused resources to help you take one useful step before exploring a full toolkit.

Free resource

15 Minute Next Move Map

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When a career choice feels too broad, start with one decision you can examine. Set out two realistic directions, separate a minimum condition from a preference, and choose a small step to clarify what you still need to know.

Free fillable PDF · 2 pages

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Transferable Skills Snapshot

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When your experience is hard to describe for a different role, start with specific events. Build up to three possible skills with evidence of your own contribution, note where each might fit, and leave unsupported claims as questions to investigate.

Free fillable PDF · 3 pages

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Free resource

Return to Work Story Starter

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Use this when you are returning after a work break and need a short introduction. Connect earlier experience with your current direction in truthful sentences, with options that keep personal reasons private and require no achievement from the break.

Free fillable PDF · 2 pages

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Achievement Bullet Fixer

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Use this when a resume bullet lists a duty but leaves your contribution unclear. Separate your action, context and observed result, then write one specific, supportable line, with an example that works without invented numbers.

Free fillable PDF · 2 pages

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Five Interview Stories Finder

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When interview examples are hard to recall, use five different prompts to search your experience. Capture situations, your actions, results or learning, and possible questions, then choose one starting point to develop into an answer.

Free fillable PDF · 3 pages

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Offer Comparison Mini Card

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Use this for a first comparison of two offers, or one offer and your current situation. Put key conditions side by side, distinguish confirmed details from assumptions and unknowns, and prepare one factual question before deciding.

Free fillable PDF · 3 pages

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Who Am I Beyond My Roles

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When role expectations take up the picture, make a first map of what you carry. Separate stated demands from guesses, identify one value, need or interest that matters to you, and plan a small action for your actual week.

Free fillable PDF · 3 pages

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One Boundary Script Builder

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Use this when a specific request clashes with your available time, energy, money or access. Write one clear sentence that fits your authority and situation, prepare a follow-up response, and choose a practical or safer next step.

Free fillable PDF · 2 pages

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Invisible Work Ownership Snapshot

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When one responsibility looks like a single task, trace the work around it. Make noticing, planning, deciding, coordinating, doing and following up visible, separate current practice from wishes and agreements, and form a concrete question about ownership.

Free fillable PDF · 3 pages

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