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Being Bold is the Pathway to Success in the 2nd Half of Life

May 7, 2018 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

Being Bold is the Pathway to Success

Are you being bold in making changes in the 2nd half of life?

The inspiration for this post came from the numerous comments I have been receiving from one of last month’s podcast. People have been telling me how inspired they were by episode #72 of the Repurpose Your Career Podcast titled Rebranding Yourself with Alexander Buschek [Podcast]. If you listen to this episode you will have heard Alexander Buschek say the following:

“You need a lot of discipline to change your life. People ask me these days, ‘How did you do that?’ When I tell them the steps I took, they say, ‘Well, yeah… no .. this is something that I couldn’t do.'”

What Alexander did was be bold and he took action. Another way of saying it was he took a risk and worked his tail off to make a change.

Being Bold is not as Risky as You Think

When you want to make a change or a pivot, it is not going to be easy. It does take hard work. However, if you are willing to put the effort in a methodical, planned fashion you will come out on the other end as a better person. It will feel very risky but playing it safe is very risky these days.

Alexander worked hard at establishing himself as a thought leader in an area that he had no direct work experience (Digital Transformation for Small and Medium Business). He was also reticent about standing out.

I cannot tell you how many times I told Alexander to “Be bold. You know your stuff!”

How could I tell? Well, go look at his website, DigitalTransformationBlog.com. Watch his videos. My favorite is Alexander Buschek on 3D Printing and Generative Design.

He did all of the videos using the equipment he had or could purchase for a few Euros.

Remember, Alexander did this by studying up on the subject but had no practical work experience. He did this through hard work, then he was bold and put himself out there. It felt very risky to him at the time.

Being Bold on LinkedIn

Whenever you are making a change and you are in a safe well-established career, I hear over and over again, “I do not want my boss or company to know I’m going to make a change.”

This is when you start making subtle but bold changes to your LinkedIn profile.

Change your header image that matches where you want to go. One of my favorites is this one.

We were doing LinkedIn profile reviews in the Career Pivot Community last week and the question came up about how much personality should be put into the profile. My response was:

As long as it relates to your professional career and where you want to go, be yourself.

The woman who asked was pivoting out an I.T. role that she had been in for over 25 years to being a technology-based creative. She wanted to create artwork using a 3D printer and shoot 3D videos.

Slowly add material to your profile that shows the world that you know your stuff. You could create:

Videos and post them on YouTube
Whitepapers
Blog
Website

Be bold and quit worrying about what others will think. Most of that worrying is because you are suffering from MSU (Make Stuff Up) Disorder. The reality is you do not know what people will think until are bold and try something new.

Being Bold Can Bring Criticism

I know, I know, you do not want to put yourself out there. If you write blog posts, whitepapers, or create videos you open yourself up to criticism.

When I published my LinkedIn Publisher post 5 Things on Your Resume That Make You Sound Too Old, it went viral. Almost 600,000 views and 2,800+ comments. A lot of those comments were negative.

Some people wrote negative comments to the following:

I am going to go out a limb and declare that putting two spaces after a period is obsolete. It is how most of us were taught to type on a typewriter. Therefore, most of us who do this (I have taught myself to stop putting two spaces after a period and it was hard) are over 50 years of age.

Over the years, I have heard that this has been used as a method of screening out older candidates.

This one piece of the post caused it to go viral. Why because the statement I was making was bold and more importantly correct. I was saying something that others did not want to say.

I attended a conference the week this post went viral. I had more people come up to me and tell me that they could not be bold like I was. They could not handle the criticism.

Making a Career Pivot is not Easy but Being Bold is the Pathway to Success

Are you ready to stand out from doing something new? Are you willing to be bold?

This will not be easy. It will take hard work.

Being bold can be very uncomfortable, especially for those of us who are introverts.

Go ahead, be uncomfortable and be bold!

Marc Miller

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Combat Age Discrimination with Strategic Relationships [Updated]

February 12, 2018 by Marc Miller 8 Comments

Combat Age Discrimination with Strategic Relationships?

Have you used a strategic relationship to combat age discrimination?

We first want to look at what we mean by age discrimination.

Most of you reading this are over fifty years old and probably have had to combat age discrimination.

I have heard it many times where someone has said, “I walked in the door for the interview, the expression on the face of the interviewer said it all. He/She is old!”

They are probably thinking one of the following:

They will never be able to keep up!
Their skills are out of date!
They will not be able to get along in an office filled with younger people!
They are out of date in this world of Social Media!

Why do they think that way?

I want you to go back to your first memories of your grandparents. Over the years, did they slow down? Did they not understand the younger generation?

Many of our biases are based on our own experiences. Could you see your grandfather working next to you? My guess is probably not.

If the hiring manager is in his thirties and sixty-year-old walks in, his thoughts will be shaped by his life’s experiences.

Strategic Relationships

How do you combat age discrimination? You take the fact that you are older out of the equation. It all comes down to having strategic relationships. This is how you combat age discrimination!

If you walk into the interview, and this is the first time the interviewer forms an opinion of you, well… you are in trouble.

I have previously written about a Targeted Job Search. This is where you target the company and not the position. You develop strategic relationships with the target company with the idea that they call you when a position is available.

I had a discussion recently with a friend, Tom, who is over sixty years old. He had his own business for the last twenty years, but the recession had wiped out his customer base. He was now looking for a job, and it was not going well. He had a few interviews, but everyone told him he was overqualified.

I told him his next job would probably be based on a strategic relationship. His eyes lit up as he had just completed a six-month contract that came through a lifelong contact, a small business owner. The small business owner had hired some twenty-somethings to do a project. He was very unhappy with their work and he called Tom and said are you interested?

That small business owner did not think of Tom as his grandfather. He was not concerned Tom would not be able to keep up. He knew Tom!

Weak Ties

When I left the high-tech world the first time and got certified to be a high school math teacher, my strategic relationship was with my chiropractor! My chiropractor knew me well and knew my values. More importantly, she knew a lot of people. Strategic relationships can come from anywhere in your life.

My chiropractor is a weak tie. A weak tie is a relationship that could have been dormant or someone that you have a loose connection with. I saw my chiropractor every few weeks but would I call her a close friend? No. The advantage of weak ties is they know people that you do not know. If you want to learn more about weak ties check out my post — Discover the Power of Weak Ties After 50.

Has Your Network Aged Out?

A common theme with many of us in the 2nd half of life is our network has supported us throughout our careers. Many of our career moves were presented to us by mentors or peers. As we grow older so do our mentor and peers.

What happens when those people retire, leave positions of responsibility or worse die? Our network withers and the strategic relationships that supported us through the years disappear.

If you want to combat age discrimination you need to be ever vigilant on building relationships. More importantly, you will want to build those relationships strategically at your target companies. You can read more about this topic in my post — Search Aged Has Your Network Aged Out and Abandoned You?

Strategic Relationships are Nothing New

Most of us have been building strategic relationships throughout our career. We did not think about it, we just did it. Now that we are in the 2nd half of life, we can no longer let it just happen. We need to be purposeful in building relationships if we want to propel our careers into our 60s and 70s.

Every interview I have had in the last ten years has been acquired through a strategic relationship. When I walked into the room their initial opinions had already been formed. This is nothing new.

Are you ready to be strategic in developing relationships to combat age discrimination?

Let me know what you think with a comment below!

Marc Miller

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10 Career Experts Share Their 2018 Baby Boomer Predictions

January 22, 2018 by Marc Miller 6 Comments

2018 Baby Boomer Predictions

It is January of 2018 and it is time to look to some experts for their predictions and prognostications for the coming year.

You can look back at the predictions and prognostications by a many of the same experts last year in the post 10 Career Experts Share Their 2017 Baby Boomer Predictions.

How did we do?

Let’s get started.

10 Expert Predictions for 2018

Skill and experience will be highly valued …

Chris Farrell, Author of Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

LinkedIn: Chris Farrell

Skill and experience will be highly valued by employers in 2018. That’s the message in the low unemployment rate. The business press is running story after story with senior management complaining about the lack of qualified workers. Yes, age discrimination is real and still exists. But the current economic environment gives that experienced worker more leverage with employers. If my prediction that the tight job market will continue in 2018 is right, my recommendation is to take advantage of the market to negotiate your next stage. Want to work part-time? Your employer will probably listen. Thinking about changing careers? Do it now when managers are eager to hire. This year is a good year to take a risk for your next chapter.

Diversity-at-work Conversation …

Marci Alboher, VP Encore.org and author of The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life

Twitter: @heymarci

Age will start becoming a part of the ‘diversity-at-work’ conversation. And employers will start to tout age-diverse, multigenerational workplaces and teams as a selling point when recruiting. This trend will take hold first in the nonprofit sector and around mission-focused work, but will eventually leak into all corners of the economy.

In the gig economy, employers very seldom worry about someone being “overqualified” …

Susan Joyce, NETability, Inc.

LinkedIn: Susan Joyce

In the gig economy, employers very seldom worry about someone being “overqualified” or the other concerns they often have when considering hiring a Boomer for a “permanent” job. When I was laid off from my last corporate job in 1994, an outplacement counselor shared very wise advice with those of us who were “older” (40’s and above) which I’ve seen to be true: While employers are often uneasy hiring a new employee who has gray hair, they are often very comfortable hiring a consultant or temporary employee who has gray hair. Gray hair on a consultant signals experience, wisdom, and skill.

Remote/Virtual work can be a viable option in 2018 …

Richard Eisenberg, PBS Next Avenue

Twitter: @richeis315

Remote/virtual work can be a viable option in 2018. It’s much easier to find opportunities through sites like Flexjobs.com and Remote.co. And employers are increasingly looking for ways to get the work done without hiring full-time, on-premises employees, which makes them more likely to offer work remotely or virtually. But job seekers must understand that some of these jobs don’t pay extraordinarily well. And some types of jobs are far more suitable for working remotely or virtually than others.

More people aged 65 or older are working now than in the last 55 years …

Brie Reynolds, Flexjobs

Twitter: @BrieWReynolds

Baby Boomers should keep this in mind for 2018: More people aged 65 or older are working now than in the last 55 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What’s the lesson here? For anyone in the second half of life looking for work and wondering if it’s even possible–it clearly is! Look how many people are doing it already. Whether it’s full-time or part-time work, employee or freelance/gig jobs, finding work that fits your needs and your life is entirely possible. Use resources like Career Pivot and FlexJobs to help you find your way. And as Marc says, find people who look, smell, and taste like you (aka, other boomers!) who are working, and get the inside scoop on how they made it happen.

The key word is ‘intermediation’ …

Neil Patrick, Neil Patrick Associates

Twitter: @NewCareerGuru

The gig economy has been widely vilified in 2017, mostly for low pay and exploitative employment practices. The key word is ‘intermediation’. Surrendering ourselves to someone else’s intermediation enables the exploitative parts of the gig economy to function. Where someone else (Uber, Airbnb, Fiverr etc) owns and controls our access to their market, workers can be exploited and are pretty much powerless to negotiate terms. On the other hand, people who control their own routes to market have the power to determine their own terms of engagement. They determine the price they charge; which gigs they accept or decline. The gig economy is now a thing. Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for each of us depends entirely on whether we have figured out how to make it work to our advantage.

Boomers will successfully find employment by convincing young interviewers …

Toby Haberkorn, Author of Best Job Search Tips for Age 60-Plus

LinkedIn: Toby Haberkorn

In 2018, I predict that many Boomers will successfully find employment by convincing young interviewers that they have up-to-date experience, high energy to manage the workload and, of course, have a cheerful can-do attitude. In addition, Boomers will also give examples of positive experiences working with younger employees, who may have been their colleagues or managers. By being able to show successful collaboration with this younger workforce, Boomers will significantly increase their chances of being hired and fitting into the company culture.

Baby Boomers will attract employers who see their resilience and persistence …

Mark Anthony Dyson, The Voice of Job Seekers

LinkedIn: Mark Anthony Dyson

Baby Boomers will attract employers who see their resilience and persistence as a major asset to their company, especially those who embrace technology. Baby Boomers know how to ride the economic roller coaster and find timeless suggestions, solutions, and tactics to long-term problems.

Regardless of where they’re working, Boomers need to adopt the mindset of a consultant …

John Tarnoff, Reinvention Group LLC and author of Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50?

LinkedIn: John Tarnoff

Jobs are going away, little by little. The concept of long-term employment that we grew up with is being replaced by more freelance work, aka, the “gig economy.” Regardless of where they’re working, Boomers need to adopt the mindset of a consultant, delivering value to a client vs. as an employee taking direction from a manager.

In 2018, many Baby Boomers will leave their full-time jobs and go back to work …

Phyllis Mufson, Catalyst for Personal & Professional Growth

LinkedIn: Phyllis Mufson

In 2018, many Baby Boomers will leave their full-time jobs and go right back to work. They’ll want to use their skills and also to put off the time they’ll be drawing on their retirement savings. However; they want more flexibility and free time. In my community with many older residents, I see many ‘retirees’ working, sometimes into their 80’s. New retirees will build their own solutions from such examples as my neighbor, a retired college professor who taught online classes in her field. As she ages, she’s cut back to one class a semester. A retired social worker watches over several elderly people, visiting weekly, monitoring their care, and reporting to their families. Or, a retired nurse who works sporadically on a healthcare hotline between travels.

My Prediction

2018 will be the year that companies will have to look at older candidates …

Marc Miller, Career Pivot

LinkedIn: Marc Miller

2018 will be the year that companies will have to look at older candidates to fill vital positions. It is the combination of retiring Baby Boomers, the opioid epidemic, reduced birth rates and restrictions on immigration that will require companies to expand their hiring practices in a very tight job market.

So what do you think? Write a comment below with your Baby Boomer predictions for 2018.

Marc Miller

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Over Sixty and Out of Work – Options [Updated]

December 13, 2017 by Marc Miller 29 Comments

Over Sixty and Out of Work

Being over sixty and out of work can be a very daunting experience. I want to expose some issues and then offer options.

Your Home is Your Castle

Home ownership has been a tenant of being middle class. Unfortunately, we have traditionally recovered from recessions by moving to where the jobs exist. That has not happened in this recovery. The house is a giant boat anchor!

Note: I originally wrote this post in April 2013. It was updated in December of 2017

We have the lowest level of mobility since this has been measured. The collapse of the housing industry has frozen many in their homes.

On the other hand, I live in Austin, Texas. We did not experience the housing bubble to the extent the rest of the country did. I was talking with an over sixty and out of work woman whose profession can no longer be found in Austin, but she is bound and determined to stay here. She loves her house and lifestyle.

There are times when it is time to throw in the towel and move.

Yeah, yeah, I know you love the big house, yard, garage to store all of your stuff!

Is your home a boat anchor?

I Need a Job that Will Last 10 Years Until I Retire!

I hear this over and over. It ain’t happening! A little over ten years ago Facebook did not exist!

What skills will be required in ten years? I do not have a clue?

I just read the Intuit 2020 report that stated that 40 percent of the workforce will be freelancers or contractors by 2020.

Note: The Intuit 2020 report was written in 2010. It is almost spot on with most of its predictions.

We have seen creative destruction accelerate at an amazing rate. I wrote about creative destruction in my post, Surviving Creative Destruction in the 2nd Half of Life. Your next job will not last 10 years because there is a high probability that it will be SMACed. Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud.

Are you ready to freelance or work contracts?

Are you a Knowledge or a Service Worker?

The Great Reset as described in Richard Florida’s book The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work states that we are rapidly moving to two-tier employment scheme:

Knowledge workers
Service workers

The middle tier skill jobs are being replaced by automation. I just saw an article that stated that manufacturing is returning to America but just not the manufacturing jobs.

If you are over sixty and out of work you really need to assess whether you are a knowledge or service worker. If you want to be a knowledge worker you may very well need to beef up your skills! There is nothing wrong with being a service worker. It just does not pay as well!

You cannot buy happiness!

Options

Downsize everything! We sold the big house and bought a condo. Greatly reduced our living expenses. I traded in my 2003 Honda Element last year for a two-year-old Subaru Outback and my wife drives a Honda hybrid. I drive 3-4000 miles a year. We spend half of what we used to spend. By the way, we are happy!

Expand your geographic boundaries. Like I stated earlier, I live in Austin Texas. Austin is still a government/university town. The metro area is over a million people, but we have little manufacturing or distribution, few major company headquarters, and lots and lots of small businesses.

In the last few years, Dell, which is headquartered in Round Rock just North of Austin, has cut back on their manufacturing, and therefore, they have let go some very talented logistics people. There are not a plethora of logistics jobs in Austin. I tell them to look to relocate. They do not want to relocate!

Relocate Abroad

Part of my business plans is to move abroad and take my business with me. You can read about the process in the following posts:

I created Career Pivot to be a virtual business where I could serve my clients from anywhere. I am now creating an online community where those of us in the 2nd half of life can gather together to support one another and I can provide training and group coaching.

Would You Want to Participate?

I have created a waitlist you can join if you would like to participate in the group. This is not a commitment to join but I will choose the next beta group from the waitlist. People in the beta groups will have a lot of influence on the content and structure of the community.

You can also go to https://careerpivot.com/community to join the waitlist.

We Are Moving!

Yes, my wife and I have decided to move to Ajijic Mexico in 2018. The decision centers around cost of living, health insurance and taxes in the United States. You can learn more by listening to the podcast Why The Millers are Moving to Mexico and How They Will Do It! [Podcast]

You Do Have Options

Jobs are changing and moving around the world. You may have to move to the job!

If you are over sixty and out of work, are you willing to relocate? At your own expense? Are you willing to have a sense of adventure and relocate abroad?

Be prepared to freelance. With the right skills, many employers will hire you for 6-12 month contract positions. I have two former clients who have their project manager certification, PMP, and are happily working 6-12 month contracts. I know of many people doing this today!

Build an Online Business – In 2017, I joined the Flipped Lifestyle community to assist me in creating the Career Pivot Community. This is two former Kentucky school teachers who help people build online businesses, primarily membership websites, to assist their members in flipping their lifestyles.

In Conclusion

I know this is the message you want to hear! The world is changing, and it is not going to stop for you.

I am now over 60 and this is not what I expected when I wrote this post in 2013. I am drinking my own Koolaid and moving where it make the most sense.

Have I missed something? You tell me by leaving a comment…. please. Particularly, if you are over sixty and out of work!

Marc Miller

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‘Playing it Safe’ in Your Career is the New Risky [Updated]

December 6, 2017 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

Are you Playing it Safe? If so, that is pretty risky!

Are you ‘Playing it Safe’ with your Career? We live in a world where creative destruction has accelerated. If you are not aware of creative destruction then I suggest you read my post: Surviving Creative Destruction in the 2nd Half of Life first.

We live in a time where automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics are capable of eliminating your job. The recent article 375 million jobs may be automated by 2030, study suggests states:

The McKinsey Global Institute cautions that as many as 375 million workers will need to switch occupational categories by 2030 due to automation.

The work most at risk of automation includes physical jobs in predictable environments, such as operating machinery or preparing fast food. Data collection and processing are also in the crosshairs, with implications for mortgage origination, paralegals, accounts and back-office processing.

This will have a ripple effect throughout many industries.

‘Playing it Safe’ is now the new risky!

If you think that your employer plans on keeping you for more than three years or expects you to hang around more than three years you are ‘playing it safe’ and that is pretty risky!

I started taking risks in my career around the turn of the century. When I have made those career decisions that were actually pretty safe, they felt very risky.

I started the planning process for Career Pivot in early 2009. Incorporation occurred in late 2010 and the Career Pivot brand was launched in February of 2012. I had thought things through, gotten advice from many trusted advisers, and hired a coach.

In 2012, on a Sunday afternoon, I had a phone conversation with my coach.

I told her that I was feeling very anxious about a variety of things going on at the time. Logically, I knew everything was going according to plan but, emotionally, I was a wreck. She reminded me that I had re-made myself many times before. (This was the seventh career change of some sort in 35 years.) Why was this any different? I told her it was not. Every time I go through these changes, it is very anxiety-provoking. I perceived emotionally that I was taking a big risk. It was my perception and, therefore, it was my reality. I was not playing it safe!!

Now Comes the Emotional Side.

I am a pretty unemotional guy as I am a recovering engineer. What I discounted was the emotional side of starting Career Pivot. For the first 18 months in business, I would wake up in a sweat at 4 AM and think I do not have a paycheck! This is the ‘I do not have a paycheck syndrome.’ No one is there to take care of me.

The days of having an employer, company, government … who will take care of you are gone.

Nonetheless, I feel far more safe in my career decisions because I am not relying on an employer.

Is Your Industry Safe?

If you think your job and industry are immune to automation, AI, and robotics then you are smoking something and you are inhaling.

Do not listen to our esteemed Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin when he was quoted as saying:

“Technology has made the American worker more productive. In terms of artificial intelligence taking American jobs, I think we’re, like, so far away from that – not even on my radar screen,” Mnuchin said. “I think it’s 50 or 100 more years.”

Our esteemed treasury secretary must be smoking something because virtually none of the experts agree with him. I guess it helps to be a billionaire and have no financial worries.

Industries are Morphing at a Rapid Rate.

I am working on a blog post and survey based on a Pew Research study called News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017. The study states:

As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often.

Even those of us who are in the 2nd half of life are getting news from social media as the study states:

For the first time in the Center’s surveys, more than half (55%) of Americans ages 50 or older report getting news on social media sites.

Remember reading a newspaper and watching the evening news? I sure do! But, now, I never watch the evening news. I read the local Austin American Statesman newspaper on my iPad on Sunday mornings, and get most of my news from the Apple News app.

The news industry is just one example of where change is occurring at lightning speed. I have written multiple posts on this topic:

Even professions like Information Technology (IT), which everyone thought would be safe, are no longer.

Career Safety is the New Risk.

When I left my last corporate employer I swore I would never work for anyone again as an employee. My wife and I have downsized. We have greatly simplified our lives. We have lived for the longest time mostly on savings. It took 2 years before I started paying myself and I am still drawing some money from saving after 5 years in business.

We even plan to move to Mexico in 2018. Check out the podcast where I explain how and why. Why The Millers are Moving to Mexico and How They Will Do It! [Podcast]

I am not taking the safe route but it is safer than being an employee!

Are you ‘playing it safe’ with your career?

Marc Miller

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Being Bold Can Bring Criticism

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Combat Age Discrimination with Strategic Relationships?

Why do they think that way?

Strategic Relationships

Weak Ties

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Strategic Relationships are Nothing New

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2018 Baby Boomer Predictions

10 Expert Predictions for 2018

Skill and experience will be highly valued …

Chris Farrell, Author of Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

Diversity-at-work Conversation …

Marci Alboher, VP Encore.org and author of The Encore Career Handbook: How to Make a Living and a Difference in the Second Half of Life

In the gig economy, employers very seldom worry about someone being “overqualified” …

Susan Joyce, NETability, Inc.

Remote/Virtual work can be a viable option in 2018 …

Richard Eisenberg, PBS Next Avenue

More people aged 65 or older are working now than in the last 55 years …

Brie Reynolds, Flexjobs

The key word is ‘intermediation’ …

Neil Patrick, Neil Patrick Associates

Boomers will successfully find employment by convincing young interviewers …

Toby Haberkorn, Author of Best Job Search Tips for Age 60-Plus

Baby Boomers will attract employers who see their resilience and persistence …

Mark Anthony Dyson, The Voice of Job Seekers

Regardless of where they’re working, Boomers need to adopt the mindset of a consultant …

John Tarnoff, Reinvention Group LLC and author of Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50?

In 2018, many Baby Boomers will leave their full-time jobs and go back to work …

Phyllis Mufson, Catalyst for Personal & Professional Growth

My Prediction

2018 will be the year that companies will have to look at older candidates …

Marc Miller, Career Pivot

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Over Sixty and Out of Work

Your Home is Your Castle

I Need a Job that Will Last 10 Years Until I Retire!

Are you a Knowledge or a Service Worker?

Options

Relocate Abroad

We Are Moving!

You Do Have Options

In Conclusion

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‘Playing it Safe’ is now the new risky!

Now Comes the Emotional Side.

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Industries are Morphing at a Rapid Rate.

Career Safety is the New Risk.

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