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Mac’s List is a Pacific Northwest job board driven by a simple idea: the hiring process should be more human. When we break down the barriers between employers and job seekers, everybody wins.
As the top career resource for Passionate Professionals in Oregon, and Washington, we focus on sharing high-quality job listings and actionable resources that help people find and land the jobs they deserve.
Mac Prichard is the Founder and Publisher of Mac’s List, where he writes regularly about job hunting, leads classes on job search skills, and hosts the Find Your Dream Job podcast. Mac also owns and operates Prichard Communications, a public relations agency that serves non-profits, public agencies, and foundations across the United States. When he’s not hard at work, Mac can be found watching classic movies, snapping photos during his travels, or walking around Ladd’s Addition with his wife Kris and Weimaraner Kai.
Gene Snider who was interviewing episode #184 passed away on August 6th of 2020.
Gene was such a valuable member of the Career Pivot community, he was a generous soul who lovingly donated his time, expertise, and experience. This has shaken me as well as others in the community. Gene attended the Start a Business or Entrepreneurship mastermind group meetings over zoom every Tuesday. It was the highlight of his week and we loved him dearly for his support. Gene was 71 years old.
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This is the second part of a Career Pivot community call that was held with Gary O'Neal and David Hughen.
If you have not listened to the first half you can listen to it here.
When companies think of HR in Austin, they think of David Hughen. Cofounder of Austin HR, acquired by Asure Software, David has built his 25+ year career on helping organizations succeed by coaching their leaders and addressing their human resource needs.
David's focus is on optimizing employee commitment, performance, and productivity by aligning them to the organization’s strategic business goals.
Gary O'Neal is the founder of HireFactors.com and is one of the most respected recruiters in central Texas. Gary has been on the podcast twice before:
Gary makes his money helping his clients hire great teams.
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community.
This is the first part of a Career Pivot community call that was held with Gary O'Neal and David Hughen.
When companies think of HR in Austin, they think of David Hughen. Cofounder of Austin HR, acquired by Asure Software, David has built his 25+ year career on helping organizations succeed by coaching their leaders and addressing their human resource needs.
David's focus is on optimizing employee commitment, performance, and productivity by aligning them to the organization’s strategic business goals.
Gary O'Neal is the founder of HireFactors.com and is one of the most respected recruiters in central Texas. Gary has been on the podcast twice before:
Gary makes his money helping his clients hire great teams.
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community.
One of the benefits of doing this podcast is I get to speak with a lot of people who have a front-row seat in how companies are dealing with the pandemic from a hiring and career perspective.
I am organizing a whole series of panel discussions for the Career Pivot membership community and I will be playing the audio on this podcast.
Next week I bring in Gary O’Neal and David Hughen to give you the perspective from the companies side.
In future weeks, I will be speaking with a variety of resume writers, career coaches, and other career experts who are directly working with job seekers to get their perspective. I am working on a variety of formats so that my membership community gets their questions answered but also, you the listeners to this podcast gain perspective.
Perspective on what is really happening out there is really difficult to get right now as things are moving so fast and most of us are stuck at home.
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Check out the Career Pivot Community.
Thom has authored twelve books on the power of business relationships, sales, networking, presentation skills, and entrepreneurship, and regularly speaks to corporate, law firm, and convention audiences. He sets the tone for better engagement at industry events as the opening keynote speaker or the Master of Ceremonies. The unique Conference Catalyst Program has become a “meeting planners” favorite in how it transforms the conference attendee experience.
As the host of the popular “Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do” podcast, Thom interviews business leaders, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and others who possess an extra dose of the entrepreneurial spirit. The information compiled from these compelling interviews is shared with his clients, as he challenges people to be more engaged and enthusiastic in all their actions.
Thom earned the prestigious Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation in 2014. The Certified Speaking Professional designation, established in 1980, is the speaking industry’s international measure of professional platform skill. The CSP designation is conferred by the National Speakers Association (NSA) only on those speakers who have earned it by meeting strict qualifying criteria. The letters CSP following a speaker’s name identify that speaker as a speaking professional with a proven track record for understanding and delivering value from the platform.
In early March of 2020, Thom saw all of his business disappear.
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Gene states it best in his LinkedIn About section:
The life of a contractor is not an easy one.
You’ve grown up in the construction industry and building is in your blood. This isn’t a job. This is who you are. You’re able to bring all your knowledge, experience, and passion for doing what you do best – build stuff. You build the structures that define our world today!
As you build, though, you realize that you need money. Sometimes you’ve got lots of money in the checking account and sometimes nothing.
I get it. I was shoveling out a feeder conveyor at my father’s gravel pit when I was 10 years old. I was helping him install kitchens and pour concrete when I was 17. I watched him struggle with cash flow his whole life.
I went to college to learn how to build mines and I did that for 40+ years. Once you start building, you’re addicted!
We are Eagle Managerial Bookkeeping. We’ll do your bookkeeping and help change your dreaded bookkeeping into a profit center! You’ll know where your money is and where it’s going.
We’ll set up your transactions into categories you understand. We’ll prepare monthly reports, so you know what’s going on. Then we’ll help you identify where there are opportunities. It’s bookkeeping on steroids! It'll be fun - I promise!
I'm an engineer with an MBA and over 40 years of experience designing, building and operating mines in the USA and Latin America (that’s my last mine in the picture above).
My team and I will help you get control of your cash flow by using the same tools and techniques I've used my whole career. You’ll be able to sleep at night without worrying whether you can meet your payroll. You’ll be confident that when you talk to your banker or tax-preparer because you have all the information they need to help you.
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Please check out the Career Pivot Community.
This week is a different kind of episode. I am a big fan of the Second Act Stories podcast. I met Andy Levine who produces the Second Act Stories podcast even before he launched it. He came to me for some advice on getting it launched.
Andy interviews some really interesting people who have made some really interesting pivots. He produces an episode every other week and he interviews just about everyone in person, which has an issue during this pandemic. I want you to hear some of these stories.
Andy has picked out his top 5 stories from his 70 plus episodes. I will play a clip from each and Andy will give you some background. I will provide a link to the full episodes for each in the show notes.
Andy’s bio:
Andy Levine is the creator and host of “Second Act Stories.” A fascination with storytelling and second acts triggered the launch of this podcast. He lives in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, about five blocks from the Atlantic Ocean. He manages a specialized marketing firm for his day job.
He is always on the lookout for a good story and has traveled to California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia to conduct face-to-face interviews with podcast guests.
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Please check out the Career Pivot Community.
Since 1991, Tammy has been engaging her clients to clarify their goals, develop personalized plans and support them in achieving rewarding results. Clients acknowledge that Tammy’s compassionate yet direct insight has led to successful outcomes. Additionally, she has worked with organizations in education, biotechnology, healthcare, legal and professional services with coaching, workshops, and team facilitation.
Prior to establishing her practice, Tammy held a variety of positions in mental health services, higher education administration, public policy analysis, and fundraising. Her practical knowledge and experience in organizational and leadership development, workplace communications, and change management builds a relatable relationship with clients striving for higher performance results.
Check out my Interview with Russ Eanes.
The AARP article 5 Retirees Find Purpose in Their Second Act Careers
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Please check out the Career Pivot Community.
Wendy Marx is a marketing and branding authority sought after for her ability to turn virtually unknown people into brands of distinction. As founder and president of Thriving at 50 Plus, her proprietary coaching program is designed to help Baby Boomers discover their point of differentiation, then rebrand and retool themselves while finding more purpose and meaning in life toward a more rewarding “Second Act.” Drawing on Wendy’s 30+ years of experience in marketing, journalism, public relations, and counseling, her programs provide a unique mix of marketing and PR savvy blended with psychological wisdom. She will take you from a stage of uncertainty to assuredness, confidence, and success.
She is also the author of Thriving at 50+: The 7 Principles to Reinvent and Rebrand Yourself
This episode is sponsored by Career Pivot. Please check out the Career Pivot Community.
Author Wendy Mayhew has been an entrepreneur for 40 years. Her most recent businesses are WISE - Seniors in Business and WISE 50 over 50 Awards.
WISE - Seniors in Business was formed to change how older entrepreneurs are perceived and to guide wannabe older entrepreneurs in deciding if entrepreneurship is for them. Wendy has quickly become Canada's leading expert on older entrepreneurship. She has done extensive research and understands the challenges facing this newest and fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs. Wendy is a sought after speaker and workshop facilitator by business organizations now starting to realize the importance of serving this newest group of entrepreneurs.
Seeing the gap of information available to older entrepreneurs, Wendy authored WISER: The Definitive Guide to Starting a Business After the Age of 50 to assist this group of new entrepreneurs in starting their businesses.
Wendy also offers assistance and guidance for business organizations who are setting up programs specific to new entrepreneurs starting a business later in life.
The WISE 50 over 50 Awards recognize and celebrate Canadian entrepreneurs over the age of 50. With the support of well over 100 Canadian organizations sharing information on the awards through their networks, the 50 over 50 Awards have generated awareness on the most under-supported and underserved group of new entrepreneurs in Canada.
This is a 4-episode series where the first 2 episodes comprise the first feedback session. The next 2 episodes are the 2nd and 3rd feedback sessions. I do not record the 4th feedback session as it is a review and usually gets too personal for this podcast.
This week is the 4th episode of the Career Pivot evaluation series called "Can Phil Repurpose His Career?" This will be the fourth individual I have done this with.
Previously, I worked with Tim, Sarah, and Juan which are not their real names. This time it is Phil. Phil is in his early 60s, spent 20 years in the military, and spent the last 10 or so years in the private sector.
If you have not listened to the first three episodes in the series, I suggest you stop and go back and listen to episode 165, 166, and 169. In this episode, I take Phil through his Birkman Stress report where we will discuss Phil’s needs in 3 different areas and things he can do to stay out of stress.
If this process interests you, I am offering a 30% discount if you tell me you listened to this podcast.
This is a month-long process and you will be required to do a fair amount of introspection, but most people who have gone through this process have gained a great deal of insight into themselves. More importantly, they have learned how they changed their behaviors to fit in with work or society.
I know that personally, I learned that I twisted myself into a pretzel to make myself successful. Unfortunately, when I hit my 50s, it became exhausting.
Again, if you are interested, just email me at podcast@careerpivot.com. Before listening to this episode, I recommend you download the reports from careerpivot.com/phil.
Today I have somewhat of a different kind of episode for you. I have been watching and listening to a lot of webinars and podcasts about industries and companies are reacting to this pandemic. I am calling this episode Employment and Industry Update in the Post COVID-19 World.
I will give you the links below to all of the resources I have found. I have said before this pandemic is exposing vulnerabilities in industries, supply chains, government institutions, our health care system, and careers. There is not much not being touched by this pandemic.
Please feel free to reach out to me either in the comments in the show notes below or email me at podcast@careerpivot.com to let me know if you found this useful. This is evolving so fast and I am having difficultly digesting the trends I am seeing.
Linda Lattimore (www.lindalattimore.com) is a dedicated and passionate collaborator and architect for change. A well-regarded speaker, published author, and educator in the field of Sustained Leadership, she is committed to models that recognize the significance of social responsibility to a world in need.
A seasoned lawyer, C-suite executive, and business strategist, Linda released her first book, Solutionaries – You are the Answer! in 2018 which became an instant bestseller. This book gives individuals a path forward to fill their heart accounts as full as their bank accounts. Her next book Social Responsibility Toolkit, assisting small to medium size companies in their efforts to create social impact strategies that support their business strategies, will be released soon.
An American raised in Latin America, Linda has traveled extensively throughout the world as international corporate counsel, witnessing first-hand some of the world’s most pressing social issues. The Founder of Solutionaries Academy (www.solutionariesacademy.com/), WGN Global Fund (www.wgn-globalfund.org), and Cross-Sector Institute (www.xsectorinstitute.com), she is an active participant in life and a role model to many.
She is the author of Solutionaries: You Are the Answer
Perhaps you are a Baby Boomer wishing you could leave a legacy or a Millennial unsure where you want to work but clear that it needs to be with conscious companies. Or maybe you are a woman re-entering the workforce uncertain about your skills and talents.
Mark Anthony Dyson is always hacking and reimagining the job search process. He is a freelance career advice writer working with online publications serving job seekers and career changers. His career advice has been featured on Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company, and Linkedin's #GetHired publication.
This week I am playing the audio of a webinar that Mark Anthony Dyson, who is the host of The Voice of Job Seekers, gave to the Career Pivot Membership community back in March. This is called 13 Ways to Handle Any Salary Negotiation.
This is particularly relevant in the post COVID-19 world where many of you will be thrown into new situations and will need to negotiate.
This should give you a sampling of what is available inside the Career Pivot Community membership website. You can learn more at careerpivot.com/community.
Daniel Elizalde has pivoted industries multiple times in his career. He has created and managed his personal brand and career through the use of a blog and a podcast.
He has gone from being a product manager at an e-commerce company to switching industries to the renewable energy industry, to switching again to the Internet of Things (IoT). He used his blog danielelizalde.com and later his podcast IoT Product Leadership to demonstrate he had the needed expertise at the time when he had no experience.
Barbara Weibel is the owner of the HoleInTheDonut.com travel blog. Barbara is a travel blogger with an incredibly inspiring reinvention story. This is one of Marc's favorite interviews in the last couple of years.
The original episode was recorded in March of 2018.
Barbara now lives full-time in Chiang Mai Thailand.
Marc interviewed Barbara again in the middle of April of 2020 to discuss her experience of living in Thailand during the COVID-19 pandemic. That interview is appended at the end.
Marc takes you from the middle of February to the last week of April with how he is experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mexico.
Experiencing the pandemic as an expat in a foreign country can be an "interesting" experience. Every country and culture reacts to these kinds of disasters or events differently. Marc will paint a timeline starting in February and describe what he encounters.
I discovered David from my good friend, Andy Levine, who has the 2nd Act Stories podcast. That episode At 63, He Joined The Peace Corps And Moved To Moldova is worth a listen.
Here is David's bio:
David Jarmul is a writer and world traveler whose blog has been read in more than 100 countries. He was the head of news and communications at Duke University for many years and held senior communications positions at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Academy of Sciences. An honors graduate of Brown University and past president of the D.C. Science Writers Association, he has also worked as an editor for an international development organization, a writer for the Voice of America, and a reporter for a business newspaper. His previous books are Headline News, Science Views and Plain Talk: Clear Communication for International Development. David has traveled throughout the world and in all 50 U.S. states. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, where he met his wife, Champa, and with her in Moldova, Eastern Europe. They live in Durham, N.C.
I was approached several months ago about interviewing Steven and Paul regarding their book Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals. I was fascinated by the book and shared the following review from one of my Career Pivot Community members - Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals [Book Review].
I think you will find this topic is especially relevant during the current CoronaVirus pandemic.
Here are their bios:
Steven J. Stein, PhD is a clinical psychologist and the founder and executive chair of Multi-Health Systems (MHS), a leading assessment and behavior analytics company. He is a former chair of the Psychology Foundation of Canada, former president of the Ontario Psychological Association, former assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and former adjunct course director in the Psychology Department at York University. He teaches at the Directors College of Canada, a university-accredited corporate director education program. He is a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. His work has been featured in numerous newspapers, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, webinars, and magazines. He shares information on emotional intelligence and hardiness with audiences around the world.
Paul T. Bartone, COL (Ret) is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Policy, National Defense University. Over his 25-year career in the U.S. Army, Bartone served as Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Europe; he also taught leadership and psychology at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, where he was Director of the Leader Development Research Center. As the Army’s senior research psychologist, he served as Research Psychology Consultant to the Surgeon General and as Assistant Corps Chief for Medical Allied Sciences. A Fulbright scholar, Bartone is past-President of the American Psychological Association's Society for Military Psychology, a charter member of the Association for Psychological Science, and a life member and Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology and Human Development from the University of Chicago.
We are all dealing with a lot of uncertainty these days. I discovered Eliz Green on my friend Thom Singer's podcast episode Uncertainty, Overwhelm, and Stress for Business Leaders.
Eliz is the author of Stress-Proof Your Heart and you can learn more about Eliz on her about page.
Eliz's introduction is as follows:
Do you worry about the toll all of the uncertainty and stress is taking on your health, quality of life…and maybe even your sanity?
Eliz Greene has a thing or two to say about stress.
She is a professional speaker, a small business owner, and a mother of 19-year-old twins.
She received volumes of unvarnished truth from employees and leaders all over the world as part of her research on job stress. Working with a wide range of organizations, from NASA to Forward Financial to Colgate-Palmolive…and smaller organizations as well, she’s seen how high-performance, purpose-driven leaders create teams immune to overwhelm and uncertainty while protecting their own productivity and quality of life.
She is on a mission to help busy people deal with the stress caused by uncertainty and overwhelm so they can feel better, protect their health, and get more of the important stuff done…
…and don’t we all want that?
Gary is a recruiting and hiring consultant. He has trained and led high-performance recruiting teams that have made well over 10,000 hires. He has seen the inside story of how recruiting and hiring happens inside over 300 companies from Fortune 100 companies to boutique start-ups.
Gary’s industry background includes software, IT, eCommerce, banking, public sector, semiconductor, engineering, manufacturing, sales, marketing, and environmental companies. His experience spans all levels including C-level executives, senior management, technical leadership, and high-performance professionals as well as support staff and laborers.
Gary was originally on the podcast in episode 58. You can listen to it here.
Gary has been involved in HireFactors for about 2 years.
Many people have varied and eclectic stories. What Gary has found is that their resume and career stories look and sound like their career -scattered and varied.
The hiring manager is looking for someone who has been doing similar kinds of things to the job description and is moving right along in their career with increasing levels of responsibility, because that is the easy hire. If they cannot make sense of your career trajectory then you will not get hired. You need to make your resume and career story portray a clear message.
A software company was looking for a software tester related to dispensing pharmaceuticals. This is highly regulated and they needed someone to test the user interface, which is very routine and monotonous. Gary found someone who had been working in manufacturing - specifically testing related to fighter aircraft. This was testing torque on bolts and welds. He had to do this day in and day out and fill out very complex forms. The hiring manager immediately kicked the resume back.
Gary explained that this person had been performing similar tasks as the position they wanted to fill, had tremendous attention to detail and would not get burned out. If this person had applied directly to this position with no one who was able to translate their skills, there is no way this person would have even gotten an interview.
This will be a 4-episode series where the first 2 episodes are comprised of the first feedback session. The next 2 episodes are the 2nd and 3rd feedback sessions. I do not record the 4th feedback session as it is a review and usually gets too personal for this podcast. This is the 2nd half of the first feedback session.
You will discover that Phil has a big gap in usual versus needs scores in the area of insistence. He is very structured, but he is also a big-time problem solver. From his behavior, you would never know he is a problem solver. I call this being a structured anarchist. He loves rules as long as they are his rules. He also has an interesting combination of being a problem solver and being a sensitive guy. In the engineering world, this is very uncommon and we will see later on that this is a superpower.
This week I start the next Career Pivot evaluation series called "Can Phil Repurpose His Career?". This will be the fourth individual I have done this with. Previously, I worked with Tim, Sarah, and Juan (not their real names). This time it is Phil, a gentleman in his early 60s, who spent 20 years in the military and then the last 10 or so years in the private sector. What you will hear is the military was a good fit for Phil and served him well. Since leaving the military, work has been a mixed bag. As he looks to move on to an encore career he wants to learn more about himself so he makes a good choice.
Most of these episodes are all in the top 10% of downloaded episodes for this podcast. This will be a 4-episode series where the first 2 episodes comprise the first feedback session. The next 2 episodes are the 2nd and 3rd feedback sessions. I do not record the 4th feedback session as it is a review and usually gets too personal for this podcast.
Danielle Roberts is a co-founder of Boomer Benefits, a licensed insurance agency that helps baby boomers navigate their entry into Medicare in 48 states, and has nearly half a million social media followers. She is a member of the Forbes Finance Council and a past president of the Fort Worth chapter of the National Association of Health Underwriters. Danielle enjoys writing and speaking about healthcare topics related to baby boomers and has been published or quoted in many outlets like Forbes, Business Insider, and CNBC.com.
Medicare covers people who 65 years old and older plus some with disabilities. Medicare for all will look nothing like the current Medicare system.
“Medicare at 50”: Sen. Debbie Stabenow explains her Medicare buy-in plan