Change Your Career: Don’t play small
“You are not serving anyone by playing small.” A friend sent me this quote a few years ago when I was contemplating adding service locations of The Learning Consultants beyond our Connecticut borders. I said something about being modest and needing to focus on our Connecticut clients. She noted that we would still serve our […]
Don’t Just Change Your Job But Create Your Career in 2017
“Get a better job” is a common New Year’s resolution and one of the reasons why Career Counseling Connecticut gets so many calls after January 1 of each year. The terms “job” and “career” are often interchangeable. But for purposes here, I’ll suggest that getting a new job means staying in one’s field but in […]
Career Design: Career Counseling Helps Our Clients Embrace Reality
In working with Connecticut career counseling clients for the last decade, I know that one of the biggest areas where we help our clients involves embracing reality. Perhaps because of our perceived career expertise, our career counseling clients often leave our meetings “knowing what I have to do.” “I have thought about…” our clients begin […]
Career Counseling: You have to at least try
John lived in Woodbridge, CT and worked in New Haven. He was approaching 40 and, as tends to be the case, that number caused him some life reflection. He worked in health care administration. When he started to describe his work, he stopped and said: “let’s just say I bore myself when I start talking […]
A Well Designed Career Matches Who You Are
“You are too nice to be a lawyer.” A partner at my old law firm told me. I had given up a small advantage – which would not in any way sway the outcome of the case – in a litigation battle to provide basic kindness and decency to someone battling cancer. I hope that […]
Career Change: You need to reach the boiling point
The most satisfying part of my work is solving the career puzzle for my career counseling clients: what should someone do for their career to lead to optimal happiness and success? In addition to years of reading/studying/learning and counseling on the issue, this type of problem is perfectly suited for my unique abilities. (Highly aware of […]
Career Change: I will teach you how to take the first step…
A few years ago, I worked with Hank, a late twenties New Haven based salesman for a software company. Hank got his job as many people do, a friend was working for the company and recommended Hank. This was Hank’s first real job. He had graduated Central Connecticut when the recession hit and worked […]
Your Career: If it isn’t working, change as soon as possible
I was writing something earlier in the day for Career Counseling Connecticut. I had actually started it a week ago after a meeting after a career counseling meeting with “Jim”, a young thirtysomething. The theme of the article just wasn’t coming together. He had too many outside activities which was one of the reason that […]
Don’t Be An Unhappy Success
I was on the path to unhappy success. I thought about this the other day when I had a career counseling session with a thirty something New Haven business executive who I’ll call “Ivonne”. I normally do not self-reference during meetings. But Ivonne had read my background and thought it was important to hear my story so […]
Career Counseling For College Students Over Holiday Break
Important article from The Atlantic That colleges do not provide career planning shouldn’t be news to anyone. But over the years of working with Connecticut parents as they send their kids off to college, I know that most parents believe that the practical burden of helping their children has been removed. Specifically, other than tuition […]