Career Help In the Post-pandemic Summer
Enjoy yourself. You’ve earned it. We all have. Perhaps from now until July 4th, immerse yourself in post-pandemic fun. But when July 5th comes around and you are in a job you don’t like, then recognize that you have an opportunity this summer to change your job/career. Why this summer? There is something about the […]
Learn how to interview
One of my favorite Career Counseling Connecticut success stories involved a student I knew from years past. I run The Learning Consultants and knew her from her days as an SAT student. “Meghan” had a bubbly, engaging personality from what I remembered. Now, she was 23 years old and having no luck getting a job […]
Time to start career planning
The Coronavirus has knocked the wind out of most everyone. I see both sides of the compassion-grit issue. I have compassion for all those who are anxious about moving forward. People feel frightened and freeze up. I understand. We often need some time to regroup. But even before the Coronavirus, I often would look at […]
7 Tips for the Coronavirus Job Market
Life goes on. I realize that there are a variety of memes zipping through Facebook about “just getting by”. I understand. I really do. I don’t mean to be harsh. But the words of my late Grandmother who survived The Great Depression, World War II, being widowed in her 50s, among other challenges, come to […]
Coronavirus, Connecticut, Careers….
If there is any good career news regarding the shutdown, it is that career seekers have time to reflect. Several new clients of Career Counseling Connecticut have noted: “This Coronavirus shutdown has made me realize I don’t want to go back to work.” I don’t know when and until that time I’ll be urging and […]
The Joy of Happy Work
Work as a mood enhancer. That’s crazy talk to many. I know. While an upbeat optimist by nature, I had somewhere in the range of 5 years of work as a mood deflator. The difference is life-changing. During those 5 years, my mood decreased because of work and also affected my non-work life. Sometime mid-Sundays, […]
If you are unhappy in your career or job, you cannot fool yourself.
In the late 1990s, I was “lost” in the career wilderness. I would try to convince myself that all was well. I would focus on the positive. Big reasons for happiness: I was in a high paying, prestigious profession. I would stretch to find little reasons, even if I didn’t really care about the reasons: […]