The job search process: the mystery of how to get a better job or just a job in today’s work world
“I’ve sent 100 applications to Indeed.” Sharon said as she called the offices of Career Counseling Connecticut. “Is it my resume? I’ve been out of work – at least out of a real job – for over a year. Can you help me find work” Sharon was in a business field and lived in Stamford, […]
Recent college graduates stuck in underemployment: Parents you have to help
Many recent college graduates are stuck in underemployment. This shouldn’t be the case for our Connecticut career counseling clientele Connecticut has among the best education systems in the country. Most Connecticut parents raised their children in affluent suburbs and provided every advantage possible for their children. Those who attended UCONN – one of the […]
Teaching recent college graduates about careers. Parents you need to get your adult children help!
While Career Counseling Connecticut works with all age groups, and each age range has unique challenges, it makes sense that recent college graduates are the ones with the greatest needs in relation to understanding career development. Our education system has not helped their cluelessness. Many seem to emerge with the thought that they can sign […]
Parents of college seniors, recent graduates, twentysomethings… your children need career help
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 […]
Career Change: Learn How To Change Your Career, Not Why You Are Unhappy
“I just spent 4 sessions with a career counselor who helped me understand why I’m unhappy with my career. But I ended our work together because I realized that we had done very little to figure out what I wanted to do.” Jane, a thirty-something client from Darien, CT, relayed in her initial e-mail to […]
Adult children: Should parents help with their career?
Yes. In the history of the human race, elders advised their children on farming, craftsmanship, and business until they no longer could do so. That some parents have chosen to abdicate that role for fear of interfering is evidence of a pendulum swing too far from what I call the Dead Poet’s Society dad effect. My generation […]
If you are as happy as your children about a “snow day”, time for a career change!
SNOW DAY for Connecticut schools! Any parents knows the joyous shrieks from children when school is canceled. When adults similarly delight in not having to work, that’s sad. Don’t get me wrong – staying cozy with the family or just having a day off is healthy and good. And there are some people who will […]
2018: Career and Financial Planning – what if you didn’t need a retirement number?
With a large number of my forty and fiftysomething career counseling clients, financial issues play a part – often a big part – in our career change discussions. Connecticut’s taxes, the high cost of living in Connecticut, the worry that Connecticut might have financial troubles in the future seem to dampen the other generally amazing things […]
Will this finally be the year of job or career change?
If last year, you wanted to change jobs or your career and you didn’t, then you discovered a truth about adult life: things don’t change unless they are forced upon you (almost always not good) or you affirmatively force the change yourself (almost always good in the long term, even if there is some short […]
2018 Career Change: Why careers in Connecticut should mean happy, healthy lifestyles
I grew up outside of New York. I lived and worked in Philadelphia and Washington, DC before moving to Connecticut. Most of my friends still live in and around those major metropolitan areas. None provide as much likelihood of career-life balance as Connecticut. Of course, if you are reading this on your daily commute from […]