Career Counseling Connecticut: The Post Pandemic Career
Some good news about the pandemic: it has shifted several paradigms: 1.) Feeling trapped in a career The Great Resignation has made it more acceptable to leave a job that was not fit. 2.) Feeling the need to maximize money As many have reflected, beyond a certain amount of money that meets basic needs and […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: the post college job search
The pandemic took its toll on college students. Terrible time to be in college. But also a terrible time to think about building a career. Internships were remote. Or disappeared. Colleges are generally terrible at helping college students with their career planning were particularly terrible in the last couple of years. Why? Because the best […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: College graduation… time for a job
Mark graduated UCONN in 2020. Tough year to graduate. So I understood why he took a job waiting tables in June of 2020. But I didn’t understand why he had not looked for a job from September 2019 until March 2020 when the pandemic began. Indeed, he was an Economics major. So applying to financial […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Help for parents of recent college graduates
Rick, a twenty six year old from Glastonbury, CT, graduated UCONN in 2018. He did not have a job upon graduation. The reason: he didn’t really look for a job as a college senior. I have been running Career Counseling Connecticut since 2006. Back then, pretty much all college seniors looked for jobs. Now… […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Solve your career issues now or you might really be stuck later
“I’ve been kicking the can down the road for…. I don’t know… 20 years.” Bob, a fortysomething from New Haven, CT said. He knew his job and career path was a mismatch right out of college. But it was stable, he liked his peers, and his boss was nice. Several times in his twenties he […]
College graduation and mental health: Career Counseling Connecticut can help.
The transition into the “real world” is challenging. Indeed, it’s an underrated challenge. The challenge is both practical and psychological. 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 […]
Parent of a graduating college student in 2022?
Over the years, I have been surprised – although less so now – at the number of college graduates who did not seek full time employment during their senior year of college. Parents are much nicer these days. Back in the day, old school parents would have been asking “have you applied for jobs?” on […]
Denying Reality: Gen Z’s “I don’t dream of labor” will lead to eventual unhappiness
The mission of Career Counseling Connecticut is to help clients find work that makes them feel happy and successful. The pandemic has had some benefits, including the chance to reflect on work-life balance. Unfortunately, there has been an “anti-work” movement among some portion of Gen-Z. “I don’t dream of labor” is a catch phrase that […]
The Post Covid… almost Post Covid… Career Shift to a “Good Job”
I was recently interviewed by NBC news on Connecticut’s job market. The “shortage” of workers seems like it would be a blessing for the job seeker. And, of course, if just paying the bills was the issue, that’s probably the case. The problem is not the number of job openings but the number of “good […]
Meaning and purpose: the key to a happy career
Let me start my noting that I don’t mean that meaning and purpose must be something lofty like working in a hospice. Pretty much all helping professions be it health care, education, social services qualify. But so do various endeavors: building a business that serves others in some capacity or being part of a business […]