Your college graduate needs career direction, job search strategy, training on job search tactics and accountability… not [just] a new resume
Yes, your recent college graduate needs help but perhaps not in the way you think… In running Career Counseling Connecticut for the last 15 years, I have fielded calls from anxious parents of recent college graduates with increasing frequency. “Kyle hasn’t been able to get a job… could you help create a new resume?” Sure. […]
College to career planning….
There has never been more confusion related to college and career planning than at the current moment. I have been counseling on both issues for over 20 years. The straight-line option has generally worked. Indeed, it has worked way more than media would suggest. From 1980ish to 2015ish, most young adults – who, of course, […]
Financial planning for Parents Over 45: Ensure Your Children Become Financially Independent
Much like many, I would spend every last dollar on my children. This wonderful tendency has a cost. A big one. The retirement crisis – I prefer “financial freedom” – is real and getting bigger. Career Counseling Connecticut has increasingly worked with boomerang children. To be clear, when I speak of children being financially independent […]
Summer 2024: College to Job hunting
Parents of college graduates, your children will soon hear: WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER GRADUATION? DO YOU HAVE A JOB YET? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO FOR YOUR CAREER? This is disheartening each and every time such questions are asked for the post-college, jobless graduate. For this reason, most clients tell me they start […]
Do you think life is short? If yes, find a happier career! Do you think life is long? If yes, find a happier career!
“I’m here because life is short.” Nick said. Nick was twenty-seven year old who had spent five years in a dreary corporate job. He had read Career Path of Abundance, my book related to how idealists need to find happier work and called as soon as he read my paragraphs on how “nothing will change automatically.” […]
Graduated From College?! Congratulations! “What are you doing?” Ugh…
“If one person asks what am I doing now….” This is the lament of many young adults. The college grad without a job, once a cautionary tale, has become more commonplace. This is not a good thing. Anxiety and depression are skyrocketing among young adults. It seems very clear through my work at Career Counseling […]
You want to help your adult child’s self-esteem – get career help
Just came back from my college reunion… the amount of mental health challenges among young adult children is staggering. I was approached by a couple dozen parents who know what I do. The conversations would start with “my son (more often than daughter) is having trouble getting his career” started… and soon the conversation would […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Investment Advice For Parents…. Guaranteed To Help Your Retirement-Financial Freedom Goals
A long time ago… actually just 10-20 years ago… it was expected that parents would stop supporting their children in their twenties, usually post college, but regardless, few parents supported their children financially pass 22. Now… It’s not unusual and if needed I would likely be guilty of doing the same for my three children. […]
The Reality of Influencer Aspirations: Challenges and Consequences for Gen-Z
No older person lectures here! I am an outlier among those in my age group. I often defend those who forge career paths outside the box. Indeed I did so in my generation, leaving big firm law for a career as an education consultant. Moreover, there are some who “make it” in the new career […]
Enjoy Life… Find Work That Elevates You
I just celebrated my 30th wedding anniversary. Francie, my wonderful wife, has a full time job as a professor and head of the doctoral program at Southern CT’s Nursing School. Great job. But… she missed being a nurse. So she went back “per diem” as a lactation consultant, where she gets to hold babies, at […]