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 […]
Staying at a job you don’t like is riskier than planning to leave
I recently was working with an unhappy insurance executive from Hartford, CT. I considered my career risk checklist for those who are considering a career change. She had been unhappy at work for at least 7 years. [not a temporary situation – check] The people she worked with, including her boss, were going to basically […]
Love and Work: Happy Relationship- Happy Career – Happy Life
Freud was wrong about a lot of things. But he was right about somethings even if prone to overstatement. One of his thoughts: all there is to life is love and work. Get those right and you’ll be happy. Flash forward to modern life: Stephen Covey of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People fame showed a wonderful […]
Make your career “idea” happen
Many people continue to struggle with a career vision for much of their life. “What do I want to do when I grow up” is not just a question people ask themselves during their childhood years anymore. This uncertainty plagues many people for well past their adolescence. However, some posit an objectively clear career vision, […]
Connecticut Young Entrepreneurs
I became an entrepreneur in 2000. 26 years later…. it proved to be the best practical decision I ever made. At the time, however, entrepreneurs were not nearly as admired as they are today. Indeed, my parents did not talk to me for several years about my new venture. From their perspective, their Ivy-league lawyer […]
A New Career Test: What career should you explore in the new AI world
Finally! For years, I’ve been developing career profiling tests. I have done so mostly by using personality, profiling tests and interpreting the results in the context of my deep knowledge about the world of work My limitations on coding have now been solved. I’ve been vibe coding, the new term for those who don’t know […]