Curran Career Consulting

Career Strategies for a Changing World

Professional success benefits individuals, the colleges and universities they attend, and society. Curran Career Consulting ensures that success through enhanced career initiatives on campus, and effective career strategy consulting with individuals at all life stages.

Services

Results-driven career strategy advice for professionals and leaders in higher education.

Professionals

Curran Career Consulting partners with you to design personalized career and transition strategies that work in a changing world. Whether you’re graduating from college, looking for promotion, or just need a new job, you’ll learn how to position yourself for success.

Higher Education

Curran Career Consulting partners with you to increase the value of your career initiatives, differentiating your college or university from its peers. The success of your graduates will positively impact matriculation, retention, alumni engagement and philanthropy.

Blog

Provocative commentary, new thinking and insightful advice on career strategies for a changing world.

Careers and the College Grad: Predictions for 2010 and beyond

December 31, 2009: The Wall Street Journal’s lead story proclaims that 2009 was a banner year for stocks. This is great news for parents paying for their children’s increasingly expensive college education from hard-earned savings. Yet the good economic news disguises an ugly fact: unemployment figures continued to rise throughout 2009, only flattening out towards the end of the year. And, none of the experts expect a significant improvement in the employment picture anytime soon.

Based on my reading of the statistical tea leaves, along with anecdotal data from clients, I have five predictions each for college students, and for the career services offices that help them figure out and find their futures.

About

Sheila Curran, SPHR, is a nationally-known career expert, experienced human resources and career director, former Business Week columnist, and coauthor of Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads: Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career.

Introducing Sheila Curran

I am passionate about careers. I like to think about them, write about them and make career services work better for college students and graduates. Most of all, I want to promote strategies that enable professionals everywhere to find success in work they love.

Check out Sheila’s biography, or read her profile on www.LinkedIn.com/in/sheilacurran

What do clients say about Sheila Curran? Read more.

Book

Smart Moves tells the stories of 23 young liberal arts grads from 19 different schools, and illustrates how they found paths to work they love.

Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads

All successful professionals develop unique strategies for the job search. But the stories in Smart Moves demonstrate five smartest moves that prove essential for anyone seeking the perfect career. Read more.

Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute, says this of Smart Moves: “Smart Moves is a marvelous book. Marvelous! It stands head and shoulders above most other books for college students, recent graduates, and their families. The authors write like a dream. The book is full of wit, wisdom and cleverness, and its organization is ingenious. If it were up to me, I would make it required reading for every student in every high school and college in the nation.” Read more reviews.