Career Counseling Connecticut: The Trades Are Not For Everyone… actually not for most…
Career Counseling Connecticut has partnered with James Folgia, a brilliant and caring construction executive who wants to help educate young adults in the last part of his career. We did so, in part, due to the growing number of articles and interest in the trades. Interestingly, as I became excited about Jim helping us, I […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Parents Help Your Children
Choosing a Career in the Age of AI: What Young People—and Their Parents—Need to Understand For most of human history, parents could give their children fairly straightforward career advice. Find something you are good at. Earn the necessary degree or credential. Work hard. Build experience. Gradually move up. That advice was never perfect. But it […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: First job focus
For twenty-five years, I’ve sat across the table from teenagers and twenty-somethings at Career Counseling Connecticut, and I’ve watched the anxious question in the room change shape. It used to be “what should I major in?” Then it became “will I get into a good school?” Today, more often than not, it’s something rawer: “Is […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Launching a career in the new world of AI
Navigating the Launch Decade: Career Trends for Young Adults in the Age of AI Every week at Career Counseling Connecticut, I sit down with young adults who are staring into a professional future that looks fundamentally different from the one we were told to prepare for. We are living through a generational shift, one where […]
The Launch Decade:
My next book will focus on the launch decade—the now-extended era spanning ages 16 to 26 during which young people work toward financial independence. The phrase “failure to launch” has become so commonplace that it may no longer carry the heavy impact it did just a few years ago. To be clear, launching does not […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: September is here!
Parent of a Recent College Graduate September is almost here. For seventeen years — kindergarten through senior year of college — September has meant the same thing for your child: automatic forward motion. Third grade became fourth grade. Middle school became high school. Freshman year became sophomore year. Every one of those transitions felt, in […]
The Path of Abundance: Creating Your Own Work World
I have taken on a handful of clients in the last few years: young adults – these happen to be young men – who are not meeting with me for “help” through a challenge but rather to affirmatively build their future. They are doing incredibly well. Much like it is with coaches of top athletes, […]
Your Best Financial Move: Help Your Children Become Financially Independent
I was working with Tim and Janet, two kind parents from Madison, Connecticut. They had worked hard to provide their children with good lives. Neither of them came from money, and both paid for their own schooling. For that reason, they knew the value of a dollar. They also had a later start on wealth […]
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 […]