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 […]
Being Bold is the Pathway to Success in the 2nd Half of Life
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 […]
Are Your Emails Ignored? Call Them on the Telephone!
Emails Ignored? I was trying to reach out to a LinkedIn connection last week and it appeared my connection ignored all of my email attempts. Emails were sent to their personal and business accounts. I sent them a LinkedIn message. I got crickets back. Most of you at this point would have given up. Not […]
Are You Seeking Respect and Failing in Interviews? [Updated]
Seeking Respect in Interviews Are you seeking respect and backing off your usual style when you first meet someone? I have several new clients whose natural style is to be direct in their communication. In contrast, they have a high need for respect in their dealings with other people, as defined by their Birkman Assessment. […]
