Career Change Process: Step by Step
“It seems so overwhelming,” Marlene said as she started our career counseling session. “Every year, I go through this cycle of getting more frustrated about my job to the point where I update my resume and start looking at Monster and Indeed. And, then I stop.” When she came in for career counseling, Marlene was […]
Career Choice and Free Time
Dianne told me that she was burnt out. A mid-level manager at a large company in Hartford, CT, she had come in for career counseling because she realized that she needed to change her career in order to improve her life. “My work has taken over my life. I work all the time. I can’t […]
Exaggerated Fear: The Main Reason For Stopping Career Change
“I don’t want to make my family homeless.” Ted said. Ted was currently unemployed. He had been laid off four times since 2008, largely because his industry has never recovered from The Great Recession. His wife works and he has a reasonable amount of savings for someone in his late thirties, the beneficiary of a […]
Choose A Career Where You Can Be Yourself
My wife has almost always been happy at work. She’s naturally happy, giving, and funny. In most all of her jobs in a varied career in the health care industry, she can be the down to earth, helpful, and humorous person that she is in her personal life. The only time where she wasn’t really […]
Career Counseling For Twentysomethings: Getting on your path asap
Denise graduated with a business degree and focus in marketing from one of Connecticut’s state schools. She came to Career Counseling Connecticut for resume and cover letter help. She wanted “a job”. This is understandable. But many of those unhappily trapped in a career path took “a job” that led to experience in that field […]
The Career Stall: Why Many Thirty and fortysomethings Need A Career Change
“Is this it?” Tyler said as he commented on his career path. He worked in a mid-size company near New Haven and described his progression from an entry level position to assistant manager to manager to senior manager. His career progression had stalled at that point. Director was the next level and there was no […]
Dealing With A Career Problem: Delay Makes No Sense
My work involves solving the career problems of our clients. Perhaps the most common line after our meeting: “I should have come here a long time ago.” More than a few of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients have compared me to a career doctor so I’ll go with the metaphor: If you break your arm, you […]
How important is your career to your psychological health? Watch The Martian
Yes, The Martian is a movie. No spoiler alerts will come as the basic premise is part of the movie’s description. Matt Damon plays Mark Whatney, an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars in, what seems to be the relatively not so distance future. Watch it as it is good movie and will help you understand how […]
2017: Change your career now before you are forced to do so
I’m a natural optimist. In building Career Counseling Connecticut, I love that I can provide hope to those in Connecticut who want to change their careers. So many happy career changing clients from 2016 gives me hope for more of the same in 2017. I’m also naturally self-conscious about appearing self-serving. Suggesting that others contact […]
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 […]