Career Pivot Community Members Pivoted to an Encore Career In this post, I want to give you 3 examples of people who have pivoted to an Encore Career. All of these gentlemen have made their pivot while being part of the Career Pivot membership community. In my previous post, Encore Career Redefined in the Post […]
Encore Career Redefined in the Post COVID-19 Pandemic World
Encore Career Redefined An Encore career or a career that starts in the 2nd half of life has gotten a new focus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has forced many who are older out of their jobs and careers. Many of you have had the opportunity to re-evaluate your career direction. Why are […]
3 Ways to Improve Your Adaptability in the Post COVID-19 World
3 Ways to Improve Your Adaptability Adaptability is a key attribute we need to focus on in our career given the chaos that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on. I wrote last week in the post, Adaptability and Resilience are the Two Key Superpowers about the importance of adaptability and resilience in our careers. This […]
3rd Expat Anniversary, Condo in Austin Sold, I Turn 65, and What’s Next!
3rd Expat Anniversary, Condo in Austin Sold, I Turn 65, and What’s Next! In May, I celebrated my 65th birthday. Well, I really did not celebrate my birthday because I never celebrate birthdays. That is a whole different discussion of childhood baggage. However, this marks my eligibility to sign up for Medicare. In June, my […]
Are You Ready to Future Proof Your Career? Learn to Experiment and Not Be Afraid
Are You Ready to Future Proof Your Career? I hope you learned in the last year that you need to future-proof your career. Too much is changing and that change is accelerating. I had the pleasure to interview Diana Wu David in the podcast episode, Future Proof: Reinventing Work in the Age of Acceleration with […]
5 Examples to Research Industry Disruption to Safeguard Your Career
Research Industry Disruption to Safeguard Your Career I am often asked, how do I research industry disruption after speaking on this topic. This is where the magic of google comes to play. I am going to give you a sample of Google search terms that I will use for these five industries. Pharmaceutical Furniture Publishing […]
Has Your Network Aged Out and Abandoned You During the Pandemic?
Has Your Network Aged Out? I am hearing over and over again about how people’s networks have “aged out”. Several years ago, I was working on a brand story with one of the members of the Career Pivot community who told me that new positions always came to her. She never needed to look because […]
Are You Willing to Embrace the Disruption with Excitement and Enthusiasm?
Embrace the Disruption Are you willing to embrace the disruption that is being caused by the pandemic? On the other hand are you fearful of what the future may bring? I have been writing about the long-term and possibly permanent disruption being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out the following posts: How to Maneuver […]
Starting Your Own Business? What is Stopping You?
Starting Your Own Business? Are you starting your own business in 2020? If you are you are not alone. There has been an explosion of business formation applications in 2020 (census.gov). What the census bureau has not published is the age ranges of the people who have formed businesses. We are expecting that in the […]
