3 General Principles For Parents To Help Your Children With Their Careers
Since appearing on the Chaz & AJ show, I have received many requests from Connecticut parents interested in helping their children with their career paths. While each career path is different and each family’s values, interests, and preferences require different career counseling, there are some general principles that should be applied. You are the Chief […]
What should parents do to help prepare their children’s careers?
Today, I will on the Chaz & AJ Show in the morning. 4th appearance on Connecticut’s number 1 morning radio show! I was surprised when I was first asked last spring because I thought the show was comedy based. It is but apparently, career issues are so significant these days that even morning comedy shows are […]
Career Change: Career counseling provides a needed sense of urgency
“I should have come here years ago…” That may be the most common phrase I hear from Career Counseling Connecticut’s clients. Changing careers is challenging in all the ways that something can be: fear of failure, fear of uncertainty, fear of insecurity. That reason – or really collection of many reasons – is why most […]
Why suffer for 30 years so you can retire at 55?
Related to my larger company The Learning Consultants, I was providing college counseling services to a family. The parents were both high income earners and fanatical savers. As we discussed their college considerations for their child, they mentioned that they would be retiring soon. “55 is the latest” – (they were in their late 40s). […]
Career Coaching: Fear of change, fear of failure, and fear of math
We live in our heads, often to our detriment. We create stories that are not always rational. And, the combination of fear of change, fear of failure, and, I say only half-jokingly, fear of math prevents many would be career changers from moving forward until they come to Career Counseling Connecticut. Fear of change: More […]
Career Counseling: On the value of the outside expert
“How did you know what to do in an hour? I’ve been wrapping my head around what to do for the last year.” Denice exclaimed. She then went on to say that she was initially hesitant about career counseling and that it was only because her friend and a former career counseling client of Career […]
September: The Real New Year and Time for A Career Change
I am very convinced that part of the challenge for those who want to switch careers is that there is no automatic mechanism that creates such a switch. That would not be a challenge if we were not so conditioned by the K-12 (and college) paradigm that made our student/work lives switch automatically. Every September […]
The free career consultation
Career Counseling Connecticut is a mission, driven, passion business. The good fortunes of having great career counseling clients through the years tell others about their success with us has created a wonderful challenge: we are continually booked. This is true for all our counselors but has led to a personal challenge for me. I am […]
Is your job making you dull?
“I used to be interesting,” Susan said. It was an intriguing opening line to our career counseling session. Susan relayed the early part of her career. She worked in a media company in New York City. Certainly, some part of the dynamic quality of her career was location based. The Connecticut suburbs, while truly beautiful […]
Are you building a career where a layoff makes you unemployed or on the market?
I’m listening to the Oral History of the Daily Show. One of the reveals is that Jon Stewart quit the show 2 years prior to his actual resignation. He was convinced to sign on for one more contract. His concern for his staff was one of the reasons he continued. He worried for some – but […]