Dr. Coil
is the principal of Coil and Associates, a career-consulting firm.  She has 20 years experience coaching thousands of individuals to choose new careers, conduct effective job searches, manage and advance the career they have, and develop long term career plans. Her personalized services and bottom-line, hands-on approach produces successful clients who find rewarding and satisfying work.

Dr. Coil's most recent book is Performance Reviews: Empowered Careers. She is the co-author of two other books, on career management published by Time for Life and Day-Timer of Allentown Pennsylvania: The Career Portfolio™ standard version for people in the workforce and The Career PortfolioCollege Edition™ to help  students get job-market-ready while still in school. She has been featured in the cover story of The Orange County Metro's issue on Women in Business and has been quoted in Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, Savvy, Working Woman, Self, and Shape Magazines. She received the 1994 Orange County Boy Scout's Learning for Life Women of Excellence Award for Business.

She received her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School, her Masters in Education from California State University, Fullerton, and her BA in English from the University of California, Davis.
 

Clients

Dr. Coil has worked with executive level managers, midlevel managers, technical professionals, administrative and clerical employees, hourly, and production workers. Her clients come a wide range of fields and industries including manufacturing, education, computer and high tech industries, aerospace, construction, finance, law, medicine, sales, marketing, management, nonprofit and government.


Corporate and Outplacement clients include: Young & Rubicam, UPS, Nordstrom, Ingram Micro, Inc.; University of California, Irvine; The Raymond Group (construction industry); Allergan Pharmaceuticals; Coastline College, Motorcycle Safety Foundation.