United States Educational System is Broken I am passionate about our educational system—and disappointed with its failings. I just finished reading a Washington Post article called Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous. Fareed Zakaria wrote: If Americans are united in any conviction these days, it is that we urgently need to shift the […]
Middle Skill Jobs Going, Going and Gone
Middle Skill Jobs Middle skill jobs — jobs that do not require a four-year college degree—are rapidly disappearing. Last week, I wrote in my post Can Disruptive Technologies Disrupt Your Career about technology changes that could eliminate or disrupt careers. These jobs will primarily fall in the middle skill jobs category. As was written in […]
Twitter, Hashtags and Your Job Search
Twitter and Hashtags How can using Twitter and understanding hashtags help you in your job search? I want you to think of Twitter as a giant chat room. Messages fly back and forth around the world—and many of those messages contain hashtags. What the heck are hashtags? Hashtags are just a string of letters and […]
Twitter Lists and the Targeted Job Search [Video]
Twitter Lists and the Targeted Job Search You should use Twitter and Twitter Lists in your targeted job search—and you do not need to tweet. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of the targeted job search, please read the Targeted Job Search series. I want you to think of Twitter as a cross between […]
Baby Boomer Walkabout – A Moment of Clarity
Baby Boomer Walkabout Wikipedia defines a walkabout as the following: Walkabout refers to a rite of passage during which male Australian Aborigines would undergo a journey during adolescence and live in the wilderness for a period as long as six months. I have a client who just completed a baby boomer walkabout. Bill (not his […]
Work to Live OR Live to Work Transition
Work to Live or Live to Work? Most baby boomers work to live. I know when I started my career, I sure did! I was raised to be an employee who was supposed to go to work for a father-like corporation that would take care of me until I retired! Do not get me wrong—I […]
Is Telecommuting Good or Bad for Your Career
Telecommuting and Your Career Recently, the Austin Business Journal had a poll about telecommuting called Would You Be A Good Telecommuter? This a hot topic, as we now have Los Angeles-like traffic in Austin. The question about telecommuting is not whether it would be good for you, but whether it would be good for your […]
8 Best Baby Boomer Career Websites
Best Baby Boomer Career Websites Good career websites that focus on baby boomers are few and far between. Recently, Hannah Morgan, The Career Sherpa, published her list of the Best Job Search Websites 2015. Of course, Career Pivot made the list in the over 50 category. There was only one other website in that category, […]
The Demise of the Paycheck – Good Riddance
Demise of the Paycheck Paycheck…where is that dang paycheck? Oh, I did not get one in 2014. That’s right. I have not had a paycheck since 2011. Because it is January, I started to gather my papers together to do my income taxes. I paid my property taxes today. I made sure to file my […]
