Career Guidance 2024: 3 New Ways of Understanding the New World of Work
If there is one area that has separated Career Counseling Connecticut from other counselors, it has been our focus on the evolving nature of work. Most career counselors – like most anyone over 40 – are stuck in paradigms ingrained from the 1990s/2000s. Historically, such a short time frame to the present would not cause […]
Career Trends in 2023
I have been running Career Counseling Connecticut for 15 years. I started at the time of the Great Recession. At the time, I was monitoring career trends and commented to several media outlets that we were undergoing more career change as a society than at any time in history. Yes, even more than the Industrial […]
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 […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: The Great Resignation is Great News for Mid-Career, Career Changers
65. If you are over 40, then you likely were cultured with the original programming that 65 is THE AGE OF RETIRMENT. Here’s some good news: 65 was created as a retirement age based on long outdated actuarial calculations. Governments thought that people would die before or not much after 65. You are going to […]
Mental Health is Tied To Career Health: Career Counseling Connecticut Can Help
Pamela felt desperate. “I’m 28. When will I figure out what I want to do?” She had bounced from job to job while waitressing in New Haven, CT to pay the bills. “I don’t want to feel this way for the rest of my life.” As someone a bit older than 28… .:) I […]
Meaning-purpose…. have you found your career “calling”?
I was an attorney. I practiced law for almost a decade. I became an educator-counselor. Why? I am often asked. I still don’t like my answer because the single sentence: “I had a calling…” shows the tip of an iceberg, revealing only the “a-ha moment!”, as if a lightning bolt created an epiphany. The long foundation of […]
College to Career… post Covid
Career Counseling Connecticut started in earnest during The Great Recession (2008) .Then the Great Recession hit. Those graduating college without a clear view of what they wanted to do faced a double challenge: finding a job and finding a career that suited them. It seemed to me as I grew Career Counseling Connecticut that there […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: If your financial number represents escape, time to switch careers
“Everyone has a number”, meaning the amount of money in the bank needed to quit or retire. So said a friend of mine in the financial industry. For those who have been battling through tough corporate or other purely practical jobs, the “number” is part of their escape route from a job they don’t like. […]
Career Counseling Connecticut: Happiness leads to Career Success
Many moons ago, I walked into the law library of my large Washington, DC law firm. One of the partners was reading a journal of recent legal decisions. As he sat in a large reading chair as if he were reading a great novel, the partner I was standing next to noted: “Alex does this […]
Are you anxious? Maybe a CAREER counselor not a therapist counselor is what’s needed
“You helped more in one hour than she has in 20 sessions,” Emily said in relation to work with Career Counseling Connecticut versus her work with a psychologist. The reason was obvious: Emily needed career help. Her therapist dealt with coping with the anxiety of her career. That’s needed. But it seemed clear that Emily […]