Career Counseling Connecticut: Go Connecticut!!!!
I am not a Connecticut native. I grew up in New Jersey. I lived in Washington, DC and Philadelphia for about a dozen years and then settled in Connecticut as a sort of Switzerland for my wife’s Boston based roots and my New York based culture. Oddly enough, I look going to Boston more than […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: We have become a mental health resource
In the last few months, I have had many parents call Career Counseling Connecticut on behalf of their children. The stories are reasonably similar. Their children – seemingly more sons than daughters – graduated in the last few years from college or are in the midst of “interrupted college” = and have not developed career […]
“Accountability”- an underrated benefit of career coaching: The reason why even great athletes need a coach.
“I think we are good.” I said to Terri. We had a wonderful initial meeting. We both fully believed that the new career direction we discussed was well suited for her and that the strategy we decided upon would be effective. Terri said: “I appreciate your efforts to conserve my budget. But my career is too […]
Careers for the New World of Work: Yes, the Metaverse is coming….
Years ago, I belonged to the World Future Society. I kept pace with thought leaders who were predicting how the future would unfold. While I left the organization once parenthood began – and the future of my children consumed my thoughts – I have always been interested in how work will evolve in the […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Job Market Lessons for Twentysomethings
Career Counseling Connecticut is the second company I created. The Learning Consultants was the first. Callie was in her late twenties when she came to work for The Learning Consultants. She said all the rights things in the interview and, on reflection, I believe that she believed what she was saying. “Hard worker. Gets the job […]
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… […]
Motivate Your Son… to find a career
I wrote Motivate Your Son a decade ago. Despite my normal optimistic way of viewing the world, I made a grim prediction: about 30% of young men would not be financially independent twentysomethings. Much like a forecaster who predicts a massive hurricane is coming hopes he is wrong, I, too, would have been delighted to […]