Mental health and the post-pandemic career/job search
Career Counseling Connecticut has served our career seeking clients in the very practical endeavor of finding careers/jobs that make our clients happy and successful. Given my deep immersion in psychology/philosophy, it’s not surprising that some part of my practice has also been led to clients noting unexpected benefits: “I’ve been in my head so long. […]
Career Help In the Post-pandemic Summer
Enjoy yourself. You’ve earned it. We all have. Perhaps from now until July 4th, immerse yourself in post-pandemic fun. But when July 5th comes around and you are in a job you don’t like, then recognize that you have an opportunity this summer to change your job/career. Why this summer? There is something about the […]
Want to quit your job?
A record number of Americans are quitting their jobs. This is a good thing. Sort of. Let’s assume that those who are quitting have come to the recognition that working in a job/career that is leading to unhappiness is no way to live, at least for those who are fortunate enough to have choices. Let’s […]
Post college – career start
We are in a paradoxical job market. There are a lot of job openings. But there are not a lot of good jobs and the competition for those good jobs is intense. This seems confusing to many parents. Having read about the large number of job openings, they are perplexed why their college graduate son […]
Career Health = Mental Health
Those who have taken any first year psychology class are well aware of Maslov’s Hierarchy of Needs. The bottom levels relate to survival/physical/basic material needs. Maslov was wise enough to note that we are all not wired to be Buddhist ascetics or extreme minimalists. We need food/shelter and some degree of whatever material goods are […]
Do you know if you interview well?
Years ago, one of our first career counseling clients met with us. He had everything on paper. He attended Yale University. His grades were excellent. He majored in economics. He had plenty of interviews. This was during boom times on Wall Street. So, he expected to waltz into a high paying job. But, other than […]
Resume Effectiveness
We recently worked with a Connecticut College senior who came to us with the standard request to help with her resume. Her resume was not the problem with her job search. Based on the information that was contained within her resume, we only needed to tweak the resume format to make it perfect.The problem was […]
Learn how to interview
One of my favorite Career Counseling Connecticut success stories involved a student I knew from years past. I run The Learning Consultants and knew her from her days as an SAT student. “Meghan” had a bubbly, engaging personality from what I remembered. Now, she was 23 years old and having no luck getting a job […]
Interview Prep
“I think I blew the interview.” Emily said. “I didn’t really know what to say when she asked me about different situations.” Emily had been given behavioral interview questions. She had been ready for the standard questions regarding her background and her interests. But when she was asked to give examples of “when you were […]
Let the post college job search begin…
Did your child – adult child – just graduate from college? Pre-pandemic, I noticed a surprising trend: present day college seniors were not looking for jobs as vigorously as college seniors once did. When working with recent college graduates through Career Counseling Connecticut, I would ask “what has been your experience in applying for jobs?” […]