Waiting is not a Strategy Waiting on anything in managing your career in the days of COVID-19 will just lead you to frustration and possibly desperation. Most of you are waiting for someone to find your LinkedIn profile or on a: Job to be posted Recruiter to respond after submitting your resume to a job […]
Retirement in the Time of COVID-19 with Mark Miller [Podcast]
Episode #190 – Marc Miller Interviews Mark Miller of the Retirement Revised Podcast and Newsletter Description: I will interview Mark Miller, that is M-A-R-K Miller of the Retirement Revised newsletter and podcast. Mark is a good friend and colleague, writes for the New York Times and many other major outlets. A lot of our generation […]
Have You Prepared For Your Unplanned Early Retirement?
Unplanned Early Retirement Are you prepared to be forced into an unplanned early retirement? I rarely write about retirement on this blog or discuss this topic on the podcast but COVID-19 has changed everything. Around the same time this blog post gets published I will be publishing an interview with Mark Miller of the Retirement […]
Over 50 and Unemployed? Your Next Gig Will Not be Your Last. [Updated]
Your Next Gig Will Not be Your Last You heard me right when I say your next gig or job will not be the last. It will likely be temporary; to assist you to get your bearings and get you back on your feet. I wrote this post two years ago in August of 2018 and now […]
Pivoting Macs List Job Board In The Time Of COVID-19 [Podcast]
Episode #189 – Marc Interviews Mac Prichard, Owner of Mac’s List, on How He is Pivoting his Business Description: Mac’s List is a Pacific Northwest job board driven by a simple idea: the hiring process should be more human. When we break down the barriers between employers and job seekers, everybody wins. As the top career resource […]
Deferring Career Happiness to the 2nd Half of Life
Deferring Career Happiness Are you deferring career happiness until you reach financial independence, paying off the mortgage, you become “empty nesters” or some other milestone in life? If that is the case, what are you deferring may never happen. My buddy Roger Whitney of the Retirement Answerman podcast uses the term life maximization. We learn […]
How To Stay Connected When You Are Not There [Updated]
Stay Connected Several years ago prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I was asked by a member of the Career Pivot Community about how to stay connected to his remote network during a job search. He and his wife are living in an area where the economy is in decline. He is looking for a job halfway across […]
What is Going on in the Real World of Hiring and HR – Part 2 [Podcast]
Episode #188 – Marc Interviews Gary O’Neal and David Hughen on Their Perspectives of What is Going on in the Real World of Hiring and HR Description: This is the second part of a Career Pivot community call that was held with Gary O’Neal and David Hughen. If you have not listened to the first […]
Is Full-Time Employment a Good Career Strategy?
Is Full-Time Employment a Good Career Strategy? You have to wonder if full-time employment is a good career strategy. We are living through the 3rd major economic downturn caused by a major disruption in the world in the last 20 years. First, we had 911 and the dot-com bust. Then came the great recession caused […]
