Any way you look at… your career takes a lot of “life”
“I’m happy when I’m not at work. I feel like I am almost leading a split life. When I am home and socializing, I am “me” but when I am at work, I feel a mix of boredom-angst-anxiety.” That was a paraphrase from 25 years ago of what I told several friends who only saw […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect jobs in the near future
Connecticut is the land of steady habits. Generally, its jobs and career paths have been positioned around steady industries. It’s not surprising that Hartford is the insurance capital of the world and that many jobs in Connecticut are not exactly cutting edge. Artificial intelligence will change career paths. I have been immersed in studying AI […]
Career Trends in 2023
I have been running Career Counseling Connecticut for 15 years. I started at the time of the Great Recession. At the time, I was monitoring career trends and commented to several media outlets that we were undergoing more career change as a society than at any time in history. Yes, even more than the Industrial […]
Common Mistakes Made By Job Seekers
“Could you please tell my son to change is cover letter based on the job?” So said an exasperated mother from Fairfield, Connecticut. From her perspective, young people were graduating college without any understanding of how to apply for jobs. “Most just send blanket applications through Indeed.” She knew as she was the hiring manager […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Go Connecticut!!!!
I am not a Connecticut native. I grew up in New Jersey. I lived in Washington, DC and Philadelphia for about a dozen years and then settled in Connecticut as a sort of Switzerland for my wife’s Boston based roots and my New York based culture. Oddly enough, I look going to Boston more than […]
Career Counseling for The Post-Pandemic Work Place
Career Counseling Connecticut has been providing career counseling for nearly 15 years. We started around the time of Great Recession. We quickly developed a reputation for understanding the New World of Work and much of what we predicted would happen in the 2010s did occur. We now are in our new phase of postpPandemic work […]
Why is your career such a big part of your identity?
It just is. That’s a really unsatisfying answer. But – idealist that I am – I can’t deny human nature. We all make judgments based on “shorthand.” Some part of that shorthand is based on what someone does for work. “What do you do?” That may be the most common “get to know you” question. […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Time to thrive again!
Maybe it’s the optimist in me showing but does it seem that things are looking a bit brighter? To be clear, I am well aware of the various challenges facing us all and only decline to list since all statements these days take on needlessly political angles. Suffice to say, I know there are challenges […]
If you are “meh” with your job, then now is the perfect time to plan your next move
I’m a bit too old to use a hipster word but I’ve recently worked with several twentysomethings who used “meh” when describing their current job. I fully know that those who find Career Counseling Connecticut usually find us after they have been suffering for a while. The most common comment we receive is “I should […]
“You care about your work….” Why meaning and purpose leads to career happiness
“Daryl is different. He actually cares about what he does…” so said a very successful friend from college to my wife as he explained why he was counting down the days that he could stop working. By every external measurement, our friend’s work life has been conventionally successful at a scale that is highly rare. […]