Career Counseling: Job search tactics for recent graduates
“John graduated with 3.8 from UCONN’s business school…. I don’t know why….” Cindy, a Fairfield, CT mother, called. I finish her sentence in my mind: …. he doesn’t have a job.” Parents, who invested enormous time, money, and energy into ensuring that their children would be financially independent and thought that getting a job upon […]
Helping your college age student figure out
“Lynne is stressing big time….” I had known Lynne for many years. She grew up in Old Lyme, CT and had worked with my larger company, The Learning Consultants, in different capacities. I was surprised. Lynne was not particularly anxious. But as she ended sophomore year, she told her mom: “everyone knows what they are […]
Helping your child who dropped out of college
“College didn’t work out in part because Kyle didn’t know what he wanted to do. He thought it was pointless to spend more time in college….” Kyle’s mother explained. Like many parents in Fairfield County, she expected her son to have a fantastic college experience. Both she and her husband loved college. Their older son […]
Helping Adult Children Navigate The Career World
“I am a parent for life.” “Yes, you are. I responded to a mom from Simsbury, Connecticut. “Steve has been drifting now for about 7 years. Three different jobs, a couple of side hustle businesses, some periods of unemployment. Nothing has stuck. He’s now doing some temp work for his uncle.” Steve’s mom continued that […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: The Illusion of Job Security Is Keeping You Trapped
About a decade ago, the movie Foxcatcher, for which Steve Carell takes a dramatic turn and received an Oscar nomination, is based on the true story of John DuPont. If you are unfamiliar with the movie, you likely have heard the name DuPont and associate it correctly with one of America’s oldest, wealthiest families. I […]
Career Advice From Animals
Science alert: When cows see a storm coming, they wait for the storm to reach them. They then run in the direction that the storm is going, thinking erroneously that they can outrun the storm. When buffalo see a storm coming, they charge directly into the storm and then continue in that direction as the […]
Navigating your career during a work revolution
Soon enough, I will be writing a new book. The book will focus on how parents can help their children navigate the high school to college (or not) to career world during the chaos of the new world of work. Actually, the new ever changing world of work. We are in the midst of a […]
Clarity and the Paradox of Choice
Elsa relayed her career confusion. I’ll get excited and then anxious. And then excited and confused. And then, excited but stuff. There are so many things I think I want to do. But then I find something about each career and either get anxious, or confused or stuck. In running Career Counseling Connecticut through the […]
HOW to change your career
“I know I don’t want to be doing this job for the rest of my life.” I hear that a great deal. “I just don’t know what else I would do.” That’s usually the next sentence. Just recently, I’ve realized that my main job is teaching others HOW to change their career. I had three […]
The Joy of Work
Outside of Career Counseling Connecticut, I often stay silent about my work world. Why? I’m with people my age who are moaning and groaning about their jobs. They are locked into the conventional work world of large organizations. They are immersed in office politicking, title striving, and budget worrying. They discuss the “fires” they put […]