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 […]
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 […]