The Office: Watch Again For Career Lessons
The Office, at least the first couple of seasons, is one of my all time favorite television shows. In writing about career issues for Career Counseling Connecticut, I often draw on the grittiness of the real world. But suggesting that career changers pay attention to General Electric’s move from Connecticut is not happy making. Watching […]
The Secret Interview Technique: Asking Questions
As both someone providing career counseling through Career Counseling Connecticut and as someone running a larger company in The Learning Consultants, I have become immersed in job interview strategies as both an advisor and as an employer. One mistake that many job interviewers make is missing on the easiest pitch provided: “do you have any […]
The Interview Clinic
I wasn’t sure why but over the last few months Career Counseling Connecticut has had a substantial uptick in clients seeking out interview preparation. Now I think I know. Interviews have always been a vital part of the job search. Indeed, job interviews are the most make or break part of the job search process. […]
Career Hope For Fortyandfiftysomethings
Dan Lyons the former tech writer for Newsweek recently completed a hilarious book on his time at Hubspot, a new media company, populated by twentysomethings and their millennial ways. I’m not sure if you should read it if you are over forty because despite its humor it describes the very true realities of many forty and […]