Who We Are

Lizzie Taylor

Lizzie is a highly experienced and qualified CDI Registered Professional Career Guidance Counsellor. She works as an independent consultant, through Cambridge Careers.  Alongside careers consulting, she was most recently Head of Careers at Comberton Village College Cambridge, UK, and Careers Advisor for St Bede's School, Cambridge. Clients via Morrisby have been The Leys School, Cambridge; Stephen Perse Foundation Cambridge, and Berkhamsted School, UK, as well as international students from Australia and Singapore. 

She provides career and university guidance counselling both to adults and to young people usually aged between 16 and 30. She specialises in helping young people choose between competitive universities globally. She has a focus on top universities including Cambridge and Oxford in the UK, and competitive degree courses. Through experience she also understands the personal stresses and challenges faced by candidates and their families with this.

Lizzie also supports clients in obtaining work and other CV-building experiences, job and apprenticeship applications, including psychometric testing, assessment centres and interview preparation.

Lizzie has a first degree from Trinity College Cambridge, an MBA from Bayes Business School, London, and a Level 7 post graduate Diploma in Career Guidance from Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent.

She is British Psychological Society qualified in Psychometric Testing, and has Morrisby accreditation for the Morrisby Profile for individuals.

She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - the professional body for Human Resources professionals.  

She previously worked in top level executive search and recruitment for Michael Page and Spencer Stuart, and then in Human Resources (mainly talent acquisition) policy at British Airways plc and BAA plc. After a career break doing part time voluntary HR work for charities, she moved into career guidance and university entrance work in 2004 and has worked for four of the leading secondary schools in Kent and two of the leading secondary schools in Cambridge.