Career Guidance

If you've had an interruption in your career, and are now interested in going back to work, we can help evaluate your skills, abilities, and interests; help identify opportunities to develop new skills or refresh old ones; or help you develop a strategy for finding the right job now.

Unless retirement is well planned, it can leave a void in our lives. Although retiring can provide stress relief for awhile, it is not a vacation. We don’t go back to the status or relationships we had at work. Thus, what we do after retirement can strongly impact on our mental health. HSO can help with assessing skills and interests, and opportunities for new work, or for ways to restructure to a new satisfying post career lifestyle.

We have extensive experience working with veterans transitioning to civilian life. We will first assess whether you may be eligible to receive services through excellent public sources such as the VA and other veteran's services. There is no charge for this service. If you have no eligibility for public services, you may wish to use Career Options and Outcomes to help establish civilian career goals and objectives, and the strategies to achieve them.

Many of us spend more than 1/3 of our waking hours on the job. Unsatisfying work can result in negative stress in our lives. We provide professional services to help assess your situation, your capabilities and potentials, and opportunities that could lead to a satisfying career or job.

“I’ve been a stay at home mom for the last 10 years. Now I’m ready to go back to work. I don’t know what I want to do, or if I still have work skills.”

“I have my 30 years in and don’t want to spend another minute on this job. The problem is, I haven’t planned what I’m going to do.”

“I’m a retired Officer. I had a lot of responsibility, but I find the civilian labor force much different. I can’t find an employer to hire me at a level I expect.”

“My career is at a standstill. I think it’s time to look for a different job or career, but I’m not sure what to do.”

If a new career is your choice, we will assist you to identify the right type and level of training, including on-the-job training, vocational certification, associate, bachelor's, and graduate degrees, and post-graduate training. We will also work with you to understand how to take best advantage of your training and experience, from obtaining internships to joining the right associations, to how to obtain employment after training, to establishing new post-career life-styles.

“I'm never going to get anywhere with an entry-level job. It's time I learned what I'd be good at and got training."