One lucky reader is being offered the chance to undergo a complete career makeover, with all the expert advice they need to steer a new path to success.

Learndirect's Careers Advice team are the UK's largest provider of free, impartial advice on careers and learning. And they have brought together an impressive panel of experts to guide our winner through the nerve-jangling process of landing their dream job.

During your life-changing day, you'll experience one-to-one sessions with nationally-renowned psychologist Donna Dawson and one of Britain's most experienced careers coaches, Tony Rous.

Donna, well-known for dispensing advice on This Morning, The Richard and Judy Show and BBC Radio Five Live, is a dab-hand at negotiating people through the pitfalls of the job-seeking process and is an expert in confidence-boosting techniques.

Once our winner has been made-over on the inside, they will be taken on a personal shopping trip to select the perfect outfit for that all-important interview with celebrity stylist Zoe Lem.

Zoe has worked with the likes of Robbie Williams, Radio One's Sarah Cox, Westlife and Ant and Dec and on a range of TV programmes, including What Not To Wear, GMTV and Top of the Pops.

To top it all off, you'll get to keep your new interview outfit - after all, you're going to need it. And The Star will tell the story of your progress in a feature article.

For a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be transformed, write and explain in 200 words or less why you are ready for a career makeover.

Send it along with your age, address, email address, daytime phone numbers and a photograph to careermakover@consol.co.uk or Sophie Smallwood, Career Makeover, Consolidated, 22 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9AD. T

he closing date is next Wednesday, January 16.

Usual SNL rules apply. See bottom of Readers' Club members' zone, weekdays in The Star. Copies on request.

Learndirect's careers advice service is available online at www.learndirect-advice.co.uk or on 0800 100 900 seven days a week, 8am to 10pm.