Podcast #327 – Marc Interviews Fawn Germer author of Coming Back: How to Win the Job You Want When You’ve Lost the Job You Need Description: This is a rebroadcast episode that is publishing during the July 4th holiday of 2023. In this episode I am speaking with Fawn Germer, who is the author of Coming […]
Rebroadcast: How Women 50+ Regain Their Confidence with Bonnie Marcus [Podcast]
Podcast #319 – How Women 50+ Regain Their Confidence with Bonnie Marcus Description: My wife and I are now in Austin but only after a long 2-day drive across Central Mexico and Texas. Therefore, I am behind in getting episodes produced for this podcast. Therefore, I’m rebroadcasting one of the top episodes from 2021. This […]
Rise of Ageism Due to Your Health – How Does Your Health Affect Your Career?
Rise of Ageism Due to Your Health The rise of ageism appears often when our health or our peer’s health fails. I was on an Encore Network call where we heard an interesting story. A company hired an “older” worker and within the first 3 months, the new hire needed a hip replacement. This was […]
Ageism is Alive and Well, and We Just Have to Deal with It!
Ageism is Alive and Well Ageism is alive and well in our society. None of us who have had to deal with it like it. However, we do have to deal with it. I recently published my latest whitepaper, Dealing with Ageism – The Last Acceptable Bias White Paper where I attempted to bring together […]
How Age Beliefs Drive Ageism and What to Do About it with Becca Levy [Podcast]
Podcast #265 – How Age Beliefs Drive Ageism and What to Do About it Description: This week I am speaking with Becca Levy author of Breaking the Age Code: How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live. Becca takes a different approach in discussing ageism and what to do about it. […]
Dilemma of Being Over 55 and Experiencing Long Term Unemployment
Over 55 and Experiencing Long Term Unemployment Are you over 55 and experiencing long-term unemployment? If so, you are not alone. According to a recent AARP article: In September, more than 1.3 million workers age 55 and older were unemployed, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among job seekers in that age group, […]
Why Ageism is One of the Only Forms of Acceptable Discrimination?
Ageism is one of the Only Forms of Acceptable Discrimination It has become pretty apparent to me that ageism is one of the only forms of acceptable discrimination. I recently read the article, “Older workers are being nudged out the door: Why is it still OK to be ageist on the job?” by Richard Eisenberg. This […]
A Plan B of an Encore Career is the Best Defense Against Ageism [Podcast]
Podcast #244 – Pierre Fricke Detected Ageism Early and Planned his Encore Career as a Defense Against Ageism Description: This week I am speaking with Pierre Fricke who is a member of the Career Pivot membership community. I actually worked with Pierre back in the 1990s when both of us were at IBM. Pierre has […]
The Bifurcated and Opaque Issues of the 55+ Job Market in 2021
The Bifurcated and Opaque Issues of the 55+ Job Market The 55+ job market in 2021 is both bifurcated, those who have stayed employed versus those who have been unemployed, and the issues are very opaque. I have spent the last 6 months talking to career professionals of all types to understand what they are […]
