Resume help is not what your college grad needs
Every year, right around now- mid-August- parents of college graduates, as well as the graduates themselves, realize that September will not bring change. The suffering begins. I hope to help you and your children avoid this suffering. For someone of my generation, it was a great surprise to hear the following with increasing frequency: “I […]
Recent college grad… looking for work? Career Counseling Connecticut can help
When I started Career Counseling Connecticut in the 2000s, almost every college grad had a job immediately after college. Even pre-pandemic, there was a shift. I’m not sure if the shift primarily stemmed from the decline of good entry-level career-building jobs or from young adults choosing to be more careful at the start of their […]
The “last stage” of your career
Most of Career Counseling Connecticut’s clientele are twentysomethings gaining traction in the work world. This makes sense. Most (1) do not know what they want to do when they “grow up,” (2) do not know the work world well enough to make informed decisions, and (3) are deficient in one or more areas of job […]
The Long Post-Graduate Summer: Career Counseling Connecticut can help
Do you graduate college without a full time job? Or did your young adult child? The post-graduation celebration the lasted through May and continued into the early weeks of June begins to fade as the questions arise: “what are you doing for work?” The smile on the college graduate (and their parents) begin to fade. […]
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 – […]