Frequently Asked Questions

I can help you discover who you are now as a college student, who you are becoming, and what you are looking for in a career, summer internships and graduate or professional school.

Then I can help you uniquely position yourself in your cover letters, resume, online profiles, interviews or application materials, communicating how your key strengths fit with the needs, values and culture of your target organizations or institutions of higher learning.

I can “position you for college” and “position you for life”!

Think of a baseball shortstop - he plays a specific position. To join a team, the most valuable information he can give is his position. It is more useful than saying, "I'm a baseball player," or a "good athlete."

When you apply for an internship, job or institution of higher learning, you must communicate what sets you apart from the applicant pool. Your “stats” (GPA, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT) give general data. They are the critical foundation of your application, like the baseball shortstop first establishing that he’s a good athlete.

But stats are the first cut. Beyond the stats, grad schools or target organizations need more specific information about who you are and what special qualities you have to offer! It is positioning that makes you stand out from the crowd.

You are busy. You are probably too busy to even think! So how can you be expected to be ready to launch your life’s work, find a job, or apply to graduate school?

If you start early, you only need to meet with me once a month. This allows self-discovery to fit into your busy schedule in a natural, painless way. It gives you “permission” to pause and reflect, to figure out what you want, and what you uniquely have to offer to organizations and institutions of higher learning.

Knowing yourself, your unique strengths, and learning how to communicate those qualities in an authentic way is what I call effectively “marketing yourself.” It’s honest and it’s real. It helps the organization or institution of higher learning know what you’re truly about and why they should want you in their community It can result in a great match between you and the organization or school where you will spend some of the pivotal years of your career. There’s nothing phony about that!

You know better than that! You get out of it only what you put into it. This process requires thinking, looking within, writing, and personal commitment. Between sessions, I ask you to prepare an assignment that will lead you to the next step in the process.

I can help you to put your best foot forward in resumes, application, or personal statement, but at the end of the day, no one can promise to control the outcome. I could never give a guarantee, but if you put in enthusiastic effort, you can enhance your chances of finding and being accepted at an organization or graduate school that will fit your unique talents and goals.

No way! You’ll find out pretty soon that it is you who will have the authorship for this work. This is about discovering the unique you and communicating who you are. This is about finding your own voice, and using it. My added value is helping you find that voice. It would be counterproductive to that process if it became my voice, besides being unethical! No, I’ve already gone to graduate school and landed positions in organizations. It’s your turn.

For the one’s first job out of college or applying to graduate school (while in college or in the workforce), I recommend at least a year-and-a-half before your intended start date. If you are a junior in college, this would mean starting fall or winter of junior year.

For college students or recent college graduates, it is an extremely individual process, depending on exactly what you need. For example, if you are a college junior with a major but starting “from scratch” in the career exploration process, you would need more frequent sessions than a recent college graduate committed to a specific field applying for a master’s degree in that field or search for a different job in that same field.

For your convenience we offer blocks of consulting hours at a discount. See Packages & Rates for more details.

Unless otherwise arranged, all sessions will be conducted at my office, conveniently located off I-287 in Basking Ridge/New Vernon, NJ. For details, see Location & Directions.

Of course! We can arrange a program using online conferencing, teleconferencing and email.