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, climate change, and the Russian-Ukrainian war has wreaked havoc on industries differently. If you work in one of the industries most affected can you wait until […]
How to Stay Relevant in Your Career for the 21st Century
How to Stay Relevant Do you know how you are going to stay relevant? I know that some of you will find that offensive, especially if you have stayed employed for a couple of years. Even if you have, you need to be concerned if your skills are still relevant. I have been blogging and […]
Welcome to the Weirdest Job Market and Economy in my Lifetime
The Weirdest Job Market and Economy This is by far the weirdest job market and economy in my lifetime. We have low unemployment for just about every demographic group, including older workers. At the same time, we have sky-high inflation though not as bad as what we experienced in the late 1970s and early 1980s. […]
The Mostly Up but Hard to Decipher 55+ Job Market in 2022
Hard to Decipher 55+ Job Market in 2022 The 55+ Job Market in 2022 appears to be pretty rosy if you read the statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). They certainly look better than they did when I wrote a similar post in July of 2021. However, we know that if you […]
Experiences from My Trip and Speaking at a Conference to 700 People [Podcast]
Podcast #270 – Interesting Experiences from My Trip and Speaking at a Conference to 700 People Description: This week’s episode is a bit different. I recently returned from a 3 week trip from our home in Ajijic Mexico to Austin where I was a keynote speaker at a financial conference. I spoke to an audience […]
4 Types of Career and Life Disruption and How to Deal with Them (Part 4 of 4)
Career and Life Disruption – Financial I started this series on career and life disruption more than a month ago. The series is based on the advice from Glenn Zweig who I interviewed in the podcast episode, How to Switch Industries from Executive Search Consultants Perspective. I reflected back on my career and life and […]
The Great Retirement Surge Driven by Mass Job Loss During the Pandemic [Podcast]
Podcast #269 -Teresa Ghilarducci and Siavash Radpour Explain How the Great Retirement Surge was Driven by Mass Job Loss Description: This week I am speaking with Teresa Ghilarducci and Sia Radpour about how the great retirement surge was not associated with the great resignation but by mass job loss by older workers during the pandemic. […]
4 Types of Career and Life Disruption and How to Deal with Them (Part 3 of 4)
Career and Life Disruption – Company or Industry I started this series on career and life disruption more than a month ago. The series is based on the advice from Glenn Zweig who I interviewed in the podcast episode, How to Switch Industries from Executive Search Consultants Perspective. I reflected back on my career and […]
4 Types of Career and Life Disruption and How to Deal with Them (Part 2 of 4)
Career and Life Disruption – Health I started this series on career and life disruption with the post 4 Types of Career and Life Disruption and How to Handle (Part 1 of 4) several weeks ago. The series is based on the advice from Glenn Zweig who I interviewed in the podcast episode, How to […]
