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Career Counseling
for professionals and students in transition
Tell us your story. Shape your future.
BEHIND THE NAME
Sounding Line
A ship uses a sounding line to chart the unknown—casting the line out to navigate and reveal the depths of the water below. Like its nautical namesake, Sounding Line helps you map what lies beneath the surface and use that to confidently explore your career path, discover possibilities and make informed choices.
SERVICES
Chart Your Career Path
Through evidence-based practices and a streamlined digital platform to assess and reflect on desires, strengths, and interests, Sounding Line humanizes the career counseling experience, exposing the client to a deeper understanding of their own work and life goals.
Students in Transition
From Gap Year planning to college admissions, Sounding Line works in a collaborative and co-creative context to help students explore options and make inspired choices.
Working Professionals
Whether you are seeking a career change or looking to the future with question marks, the narrative process helps you find meaning, clarity and intention.
Schools & Organizations
Transform career services - Sounding Line consults to rethink and restructure career guidance systems, technology and training.
ABOUT
Drew McDowell
Drew has spent thirty years cultivating expertise within the in-between spaces of educational and workforce systems, the very places where students, professionals and organizations navigate stability and change.
THE DIFFERENCE
Why Sounding Line?
Tell us your story and what drives you and discover how to think radically about how you experience and learn in the world.
"I needed some time during the pandemic to reevaluate my skills as a designer and stay sharp creativity, Sounding Line provided that and I was able to feed that energy into my projects.."
Melanie M.
TESTIMONIALS
"I had always been stymied by the myriad of possibilities for my future. Drew helped me not only narrow down the options, but also reflect on what about my past could mold my future career."
Jesse V.
"Rather than view my career and life as a linear path, I was able to see the whole picture and connect the pieces of the puzzle that have been missing from what aptitude tests alone have told me."
Felicia T.
Working with Drew
FREE 15-MINUTE CONSULT
Questions? Let's Talk.
Sign up for a free 15-minute consultation and find out how the Sounding Line experience can help you manage changing careers, employment search and successful student transitions.