Returning to the Workplace After COVID Are you anxious or excited about returning to the workplace now that the COVID pandemic is waning? I have spent the month of May of 2021 in Austin, Texas. My wife and I are here to get vaccinated and take care of business that must be handled in person. […]
A Pandemic Awakening – Embrace a New Perspective on Your Career and Life
A Pandemic Awakening Are you experiencing a pandemic awakening that is giving you a new perspective on your career and possibly life in general? I know that the last year has given me a new perspective on what I want my life to look like in the future. In reflecting on the last year, I […]
How to Deal with Unpredictability in the Post Pandemic Job Market
How to Deal with the Unpredictability The post-pandemic job market is showing a high level of unpredictability. The latest job numbers show that employers are not hiring at the accelerating rate that many economists predicted. At the same time, many employers are having problems finding qualified workers. There is a huge disconnect between the kinds […]
5 Steps for Using Transferable Skills to Move to a New Industry
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 […]
