Employment Archives - Career Pivot

Minding Your Career Gap – How to Handle in the 2nd Half of Life

June 17, 2019 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Minding Your Career Gap We have always been told that having a career gap or a period of unemployment was deadly for our career. Well, many of you who read this blog have decided to take time off to take care of a spouse or parent which means creating a career gap and leaving the […]

Should I Take a Survival Job and Why? [Updated]

April 15, 2019 by Marc Miller 6 Comments

Survival Job Are you considering taking a survival job? Have you been out of work for over six months? Have your unemployment benefits run out? Are you running out of money to pay the mortgage, or are you going to raid your 401(k) for living expenses? Many are driven to this decision by monetary issues […]

4 Ingredients to a Winning Video Interview Environment [Updated]

November 5, 2018 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Video Interview If you are in the job market it is highly likely you will have a video interview. Interviews are given via Skype, Zoom or a variety of other platforms. The key to a successful video interview is to look and, more importantly, sound your best. Even though you might think that having really […]

The Purple Cow Job Description – Should I Apply? [Updated]

October 1, 2018 by Marc Miller 14 Comments

Purple Cow Job Description? I guarantee you have read a purple cow job description. It’s one of those that, when you finished reading it, you said to yourself: I am not qualified for this job but…is anyone? They are looking for the purple cow. The ideal candidate does not exist! I am going out on […]

How People Think of You May Be Frozen in Time

September 24, 2018 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Frozen in Time How people from our past think of us may be frozen in time. We all have colleagues from the early years of our career who do not think of us in today’s terms. They remember us how we were back then. Their memories of us are frozen in time. I learned about this concept […]

Full Employment is Here Except For Baby Boomers

June 18, 2018 by Marc Miller 24 Comments

Full Employment is Here … Well, It Sure Does Not Feel Like It. All of the data that is being published says we are at full employment. With unemployment rates below 4%, we should all be feeling pretty good. Why then does it not feel that way? I speak at job clubs every few months […]

What If You Are Not Passionate About Anything? [Updated]

June 6, 2018 by Marc Miller 71 Comments

What If You Are not Passionate About Anything? Well, there are a lot of us out there who are not passionate about any ONE thing. We are passionate about a combination of things! I have talked about those interests that you must fulfill to be happy. In a previous post, I talked about my wife […]

I Want to Be Hired Before I Move Dilemma

June 4, 2018 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

I Want to Be Hired Before I Move I live in Austin Texas and over the years I have heard, “I want to be hired before I move.” They do not want to commit to moving here until they secure employment. Austin is the 11th largest city in the United States according to Wikipedia with […]

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, […]

Over Sixty and Out of Work – Options [Updated]

December 13, 2017 by Marc Miller 30 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 […]