Reflections
Loss
Having counseled professionals for years in transition due to an involuntary job loss, I find myself with a number of thoughts about the experience. Most people are devastated once they are told the news–some version of the business is going in another direction, redundancy has come into play, the organization needs to make cutbacks. No…
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¬†My buddy Gus, reminding me that nothing is more important than this moment… Sometimes things happen that send us into a tail spin and at the end of it, we realize that we either said something or did something or acted in a way other than how we might have if we had remained in…
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The information is consistent: around 80% of college-bound high schoolers are undeclared as arriving university freshman.¬† Somewhere around 50% of those who enter with declared majors change them, sometimes two and three times.¬† Many students do not complete their degree program in four years; in fact, we know that after 6 years about 40 %…
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