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 […]
Parents seeking to help their children’s career path
Parents of college age or recent college graduates know the new parental truth: the practical part of your parenting did not end when you sent them to college. Here’s what I mean: parents have always been parents for life so I am not referencing emotional support and other parental interactions post high school departure. But […]
Career Counseling: The power of practical training
The Power of Positive Thinking is my father’s all time favorite book. Norman Vincent Peale’s classic is old school middle of the twentieth century literature that provides an adjacent strand of thought to the law of attraction. I’m all for positive thinking and, if properly understood, the law of attraction. Here’s the problem: some of […]
Helping Our Career Counseling Clients Through Uncertainty
Like many of our career counseling clients, Sarah suffered about leaving her job to start a new venture. One of the truths I’ve discovered about human nature through my 15 years of providing career counseling services is that most people will choose the security of low level misery to uncertainty. In Sarah’s case, she had […]
“Is Career Counseling Worth It?”
Many career counselors are terrible. Why? Because they fall into two categories (1) psychologists who are often well meaning but have no real business providing career advice and (2) those who have not had successful careers themselves, and then through their own career search immersion think they can help others. Those psychologists who enter career […]
Career Play: What if your work was just an expression of who you are?
Creators of any sort understand exactly what I’m suggesting: if you are a musician, a craftsman, a writer and whole host of other professions where the dominant activity involves expressing yourself then your work is part of you. Those involved in meaningful work often feel the same way. The most obvious are clerics. Pastors, priests, […]
Be thankful if you can help your adult-children with their careers
From The Atlantic, May 2nd article on the average millennial career: “The typical millennial career is not in a fixed state. It is more aspirational than descriptive. Jobs are still quite temporary things for twenty-somethings. The average American has more than seven jobs before he or she turns 29 and about a third of those can […]