College to Career: The New Big Decision
I met with my accountant yesterday. During tax time, he meets with his Connecticut clientele and hears concerns about their financial decision. He’s interested in my work as a career counselor and relayed that many of his clients are very worried about both college cost and the college investment. Many Connecticut parents are spending $100-$300,000 […]
Career Counseling: Parents of Twentysomethings
The Parents’ Guide to Career Planning for Your Twentysomething While my self-consciousness about self-promotion always makes me resist the urge to suggest buying, I will say that the few people that I’ve shared the book with have been enthusiastic in relation to how it will help them help their children. To be clear, the audience […]
Edit your career vision… and then your resume
“I really need to edit my resume.” Talia started on her initial call to Career Counseling Connecticut. She explained that she was working in a dead-end job and had started applying to different jobs with no success. That she worked in a retail job and was wondering why she was not getting interviews for jobs […]
The process created the action: How Career Counseling Connecticut automatically helps…
I love my career counseling work because it connects directly to how I derive purpose in the world. The thank-you notes are a pleasant bonus. From time to time, clients send an email describing how a specific piece of advice made a meaningful difference in their career. I would like to think that every client […]
Liberal arts majors… maybe now is your time?
The most difficult part of my career counseling work is advising recent college graduates who were not well-educated by their colleges about the current realities of the job market. I will put film majors, multi-media majors, and pretty much every major steeped in creativity in with liberal arts majors. These are my brethren, as I’ll […]
Your career is a large part of your life… why wait?
This Is Your Life Most everyone – except young twentysomethings – who leaves a career counseling meeting with Career Counseling Connecticut – says: “I should have come here earlier.” Why do people wait? They are not trained to make things happen. School – the magical K to first grade to second grade… through twelfth grade […]
Your best retirement plan: Help your children become financially independent
Career Counseling Connecticut When Supporting Your Twentysomethings Becomes a Long-Term Financial Plan Recently, I was reflecting on several friends and realized something striking. Most of them are still financially supporting their young adult children. Rent. Car payments. Insurance. Phone bills. Sometimes, even discretionary spending. One friend in Guilford, Connecticut, has three twentysomethings. He and his […]
My Degree Doesn’t Match My Career Goals — What Should I Do?
Career Counseling Connecticut Advice for College Graduates Many college graduates worry that they made a mistake when choosing their major. I was a government major. Sure, I knew I was going to law school. But still… my major had little to do with my very happy career. I understand the world has changed since the […]
Career Counseling Connecticut on Making a Practical Career Change
Regretting Your Career? What To Do Next I had a parallel legal career to one of my closest friends from law school. We both enjoyed our time in public service. We both disliked our time in large private law firms. He started at his in 1996. I started in mine in 1997. I left the […]
Get Career Counseling Help: AI Is Here
This is the Wall Street Journal headline: The Week the Dreaded AI Jobs Wipeout Got Real Layoffs at Block add to growing backlash bubbling up across American companies; ‘It brings out the pitchforks’ David’s parents called. He had grown up in Fairfield, attended Fairfield Prep, and then… surprisingly… went to Fairfield University. Social anxiety drove […]