US counsellor collects dozens of career Barbies to inspire job seekers

Friedner is an employment counsellor with Camden County who has many, many career Barbies and the Barbie slogan at her cubicle at work. It's helped inspired dispirited clients and has become her passion. Photo: Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

The movie Barbie tells women, "You can be anything". But Debbie Friedner and her Barbies help people believe it.

Friedner, 68, is a career counsellor with Camden County’s One Stop Resource Center in New Jersey, the United States. For the past nearly 29 years, she has helped unemployed Camden County residents figure out what they want to do and how to get there.