As a Career Counselor:
My Ph.D. in psychology combined Clinical and Counseling work, so I have been doing career counseling since I was in graduate school. I work with a wide variety of people with vocational issues, everyone from students trying to pick a major to top executives who are successful but unfulfilled and unhappy. I also work with homemakers trying to re-enter the workforce.
Career counseling is surprisingly short term. I usually meet with the client for a session and get to know them. Then I send them away with a bunch of tests and excercises to do at home. We get together and put the pieces of the puzzle together regarding what is the right direction to take. The majority of career counseling clients have discovered their right direction in less than four sessions.
For the last fifteen years, I have been writing career advice columns, first for Q. Magazine and then for the fifteen flagship newspapers of the Gannett chain. Now I write The Career Doctor column online for the Larchmont Gazette. Everyweek I get interesting questions about careers from around the world. I select the questions with most universal appeal, or ones that seem uniquely interesting, and publish the answers online.
While I can't guarantee that I will select your question, to submit one go to www.thecareerdoctor.com
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