Career Building: A must in the time of AI
The degree to which the world of work is changing becomes more and more apparent every year. Ed worked at a large company based in Shelton, Connecticut. His job entailed data analytics and reporting, a very “old world” of work type job. He was good at what he did and was eventually named head of […]
Summer Career Planning – Fall Career Change
Connecticut summers are idyllic. I fully understand the desire to immerse oneself in the joys of summer, particularly along Shoreline, CT. Many of our calls start with….”I would like to schedule a career counseling meeting in September.” Their thinking is that few companies are hiring in the summer, and/or they will want to change careers […]
Your child graduated college without a job… it will be long summer
“If one person asks what am I doing now….” So said Kyle a few summers after graduating college without a job lined up. This once somewhat infrequent occurrence has become more commonplace these days. This is not a good thing. Anxiety and depression are skyrocketing among young adults. It seems very clear to me, through […]
Happy to return to work, post vacation?
I am in Austria right now with my wife and three children after a week in Italy. And, yet I look forward to getting back to work. Strange, right? I would have thought so too when I was in the last part of my legal career. Thoughts of going back to work for the start […]
Career Anxiety?
“I want what you have.” Rich said. “You are building something and love what you do.” Rich was a young attorney in New Haven who realized that the didn’t really like practicing law. I remember that feeling. I started my career as an attorney. Even hen I was a criminal prosecutor in Philadelphia – my favorite […]
The value of career counseling
I am in the mission phase of my career. That’s a tactful way of saying I’m old enough and, fortunately, financially secure enough to be work-optional. I’m delighted to work with people whom I can help and utterly uninterested in convincing anyone to work with me. So I smile a bit when potential clients – […]
Why Career Guidance Is Needed For Your Twentysomething
I started The Learning Consultants in 2002. I was fairly certain that teens needed far more guidance and tutoring than being given and that most every high school was not equipped to help students in an optimal way. The “market” agreed. The college counseling, tutoring and test prep industry launched The Learning Consultants and many […]
3 Rarely heard reasons why Twentysomethings are struggling in their careers
I have been working with young people for a long while in relation to career choice. The development of Career Counseling Connecticut has morphed from highly practical with some counseling to about fifty-fifty. Practical coaching – counseling – is needed, not therapy in most cases. The issues below have always been apparent but now are […]
Summer after college graduation….
“I thought I would start looking after the summer.” I remember hearing this phrase about a decade and a half ago when one of Career Counseling Connecticut’s first clients came to our offices in Madison, Connecticut. I was surprised because my first clients were mostly former students from The Learning Consultants For the most part, […]
Underemployed college grad living at home?
My daughter recently bumped into an old friend. He’s a bit older than her and she knew he had graduated college about 5 years ago. She was riding her bike in Washington, DC and she came up across someone next to her riding his bike for DoorDash. It was her old friend. She saw his […]