What happens next? How to help your young adult children in an uncertain career world
I started learning everything I could about “the New World of Work” about 15 years ago. I saw work changing rapidly. So I read/thought/wrote about what I saw from Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients and what researchers/experts were saying. This New World of Work – while coming about gradually -is now the Current World of Work […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Why Career Vision Empowers Job Search
“That job was a waste of time. I feel like I’m behind…” Lacey, a twenty-four-year-old, from Darien, CT noted in her narrative. I get the pressure to find a job. But not only will having a career vision lead you to avoid Lacey’s common problem, a career vision will also help you get a job […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Job Search Strategy
“I told Kayla that she needs to go on Indeed every day…” Ed, a Simsbury, CT dad, called with great worry. “It’s been three months since graduation and she’s not doing enough.” I hear this almost every day in running Career Counseling Connecticut. I sympathize with both parent and adul child. The job search process […]
Career Counseling: Job search tactics for recent graduates
“John graduated with 3.8 from UCONN’s business school…. I don’t know why….” Cindy, a Fairfield, CT mother, called. I finish her sentence in my mind: …. he doesn’t have a job.” Parents, who invested enormous time, money, and energy into ensuring that their children would be financially independent and thought that getting a job upon […]
Helping your college age student figure out
“Lynne is stressing big time….” I had known Lynne for many years. She grew up in Old Lyme, CT and had worked with my larger company, The Learning Consultants, in different capacities. I was surprised. Lynne was not particularly anxious. But as she ended sophomore year, she told her mom: “everyone knows what they are […]
Helping your child who dropped out of college
“College didn’t work out in part because Kyle didn’t know what he wanted to do. He thought it was pointless to spend more time in college….” Kyle’s mother explained. Like many parents in Fairfield County, she expected her son to have a fantastic college experience. Both she and her husband loved college. Their older son […]
Helping Adult Children Navigate The Career World
“I am a parent for life.” “Yes, you are. I responded to a mom from Simsbury, Connecticut. “Steve has been drifting now for about 7 years. Three different jobs, a couple of side hustle businesses, some periods of unemployment. Nothing has stuck. He’s now doing some temp work for his uncle.” Steve’s mom continued that […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: The Illusion of Job Security Is Keeping You Trapped
About a decade ago, the movie Foxcatcher, for which Steve Carell takes a dramatic turn and received an Oscar nomination, is based on the true story of John DuPont. If you are unfamiliar with the movie, you likely have heard the name DuPont and associate it correctly with one of America’s oldest, wealthiest families. I […]
Career Advice From Animals
Science alert: When cows see a storm coming, they wait for the storm to reach them. They then run in the direction that the storm is going, thinking erroneously that they can outrun the storm. When buffalo see a storm coming, they charge directly into the storm and then continue in that direction as the […]
Navigating your career during a work revolution
Soon enough, I will be writing a new book. The book will focus on how parents can help their children navigate the high school to college (or not) to career world during the chaos of the new world of work. Actually, the new ever changing world of work. We are in the midst of a […]