Using Transferable Skills to Move to a New Industry Many of you will need to identify transferable skills and then leverage them to move to a new industry. COVID-19 has wreaked its havoc on industries differently. If you work in one of the industries most affected can you wait until it recovers or do you […]
2020 Career Pivot Readers Survey Results – A Must Read
Career Pivot Readers Survey Results The Career Pivot Readers Survey had a different focus this year. Given that 2020 has been such a strange year, the focus of the survey was to get feedback on how the pandemic affected you both professionally and personally. What you told me was the effect of the pandemic has […]
What to do When the Unpredictable is the New Normal
The Unpredictable is the New Normal The year 2020 has proven that the unpredictable is the new normal. When things are unpredictable or uncertain it causes a lot of stress. I interviewed Eliz Greene on the Repurpose Your Career Podcast in March of 2020 in the episode Dealing with Stress and Uncertainty with Eliz Greene. […]
7 Best Practices that Empower Your Career and Business
Best Practices that Empower Your Career and Business Have you developed some best practices that empower others to help you in your career and business? I was on a Zoom call run by a Meetup group called, LinkedIn Local Austin Networking. I have been involved with this group for years when I lived in Austin […]
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 […]
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 […]
Switching to Digital: How to Jumpstart Your Remote Career [Guest Post]
Jumpstart Your Remote Career Remote work is on the rise and will most likely continue trending in that direction. Particularly with studies continuing to show that remote workers are happier, healthier and more productive. Or at least they can be. Whether remote work is a positive or negative experience all depends on how you manage […]
The Self-Employment Mindset: What You Need to Succeed [Guest Post]
The Self-Employment Mindset Can everyone succeed at self-employment? This question comes up every time I speak to an audience about my new book, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss. Being asked this question repeatedly has prompted me to think about the mental mindset that is required for self-employment success. […]
Top 10 Googled Career Pivot Posts for 2017
Top 10 Googled Career Pivot Posts Every year I like to highlight the top pages/posts that were found by people searching using Google. Check out last year’s list and you tell me what you see different. The Career Pivot website was googled over 151,000 times in 2017 and that is up from 111,000 in 2016. Search traffic […]