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Repurpose Your Career for the 2nd Half of Life

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Marc Miller is back on the show again to talk about his new book, “Repurpose Your Career: For the 2nd Half of Life.” He shares stories from his clients and helping them to align their interests and careers.

Have you decided to make a career pivot in your career? Are you in your 2nd half of life? Let’s discuss!

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Marc’s new book is now in the Amazon bookstore. His media features include CBS Money Watch, U.S. News and World Report, and Forbes. His blog, Career Pivot, is a Forbes Top 1oo Best Career Website and has achieved several other best career website awards.

Here some highlights from our discussion on how to repurpose your career:

Marc added five years of client stories and shifted from baby boomers to clients in their 40’s
“Failure is an option” and a requirement, fail fast, then pivot
Big changes can occur by just moving with the flow
We discuss the importance of self-awareness or as Marc phrases it as “Know Thyself.”
“Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean you should do it all the time!”
Authentically put your best foot forward, then an employer can if you’re fit
Marc goes back in time with his clients to the best/worst times in their career to understand “why.”
Making the same mistakes twice is not a bad thing
We discuss the chapter on personal operating systems. He uses the Berkman assessments with each of his clients.
Behavioral patterns are insightful to discovering your career goals

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by Mark Anthony Dyson

3 Unforgettable Career Lessons from Hidden Figures The Movie

Besides Hidden Figures being a great movie, there were useful career lessons. It’s rare a Hollywood movie features character and positive personal attributes. The film depicted three African-American women breaking gender and color barriers at NASA. The three main women characters showed how skill and character add value to employers. These attributes energize meaningful careers, and the movie reminded us why.

Oh, did I say this is a real story? It’s historic. Yes, men, we can learn from them too! But like the evergreen tree, these lessons are planted in water, and eternal.

Each woman has an extraordinary story and talents: a mathematician, computer technologist, and engineer. Bias impeded their breakthrough: Color and gender. They had to prove their value first breaking through extraordinary barriers. Even when they shattered expectations, it wasn’t enough.

Read How Unconscious Bias Can Hinder Job Seekers Before An Interview

These women challenged the status quo, race relation barriers, and gender bias. Consider these attributes and similar obstacles during your job search:

1. Strategy without patience and resilience is useless

Janelle Monae’s character Mary Jackson exercised great patience but also understood her value. She had to go to court to attend a class traditionally held by men but prohibited African-Americans. Mary was willing to go through the barriers, and still confront the challenges awaiting her.

Lesson learned: Job search takes time, and waiting until you’re jobless is excruciating.

Start networking for your future even if you don’t know the final destination.

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Networking adds to the intelligence you’ll need to navigate obstacles.

2. Sometimes you’re the last to know the significance of your contribution

Octavia Spencer’s showed how Dorothy Vaughn managed rejection for a promotion for years. She learned a computer language enabled her to functionalize the mainframe computers. Dorothy mastered it before the men assigned to set the computers did. Once she understood the new computer language, she taught her staff. This action resulted in the ultimate prize: A promotion to supervisor.

Lesson learned: Job trends shift incessantly in most industries. Find out how technology will play a part. Robots and computers will be the tools and the catalyst.

Focus on understanding what it takes to be competitive in your industry.

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Listen to Facing Unconscious Bias in Your Career and Life

3. Opportunities are created and boldly requested

Taraji Henson’s character Katherine Johnson was steadfast getting to the big meeting. Women were not allowed in this session! When she finally attended, she didn’t hesitate to show her abilities. Later, those skills shaped the space program forever and saved John Glenn’s life.

Lesson learned: Be persistent when it comes to meeting key people. Look to ask the key holders and not depend on the gatekeepers.

Your breakthrough requires doing the unexpected and more than what is expected.

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The tools and techniques we read about are necessary. What employers respond to is character and personality. Those are attributes employers cannot train employees to own. The modern job seekers cannot afford to be passive. Today, to achieve results, your action must have actionable steps. You be intentional and follow-up, and at times, ask more than once. It’s not easy but will yield results in time.

by Mark Anthony Dyson

The Existence of the Pay Gap and We Love Equal Pay Day

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We are recording this episode on April 3, 2017. This is a day before the “Don’t Call it a Pay Gap” Facebook Live hosted by PayScale. I wanted to support this event because it’s discussion about the issues faced daily by women.

Cassidy Rush is a Campaign Marketing Manager for Payscale and my friend. We are reviewing the discussion at large tomorrow.

Is there a double standard for women in the workplace?

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Here are a few of our highlights:

Cassidy talks about the inspiration and genesis behind the event
The idea behind the hashtag #RestingBizFace
How can men have a role in this discussion? Can men be a catalyst in this discussion?
How can equal pay occur way before the years predicated it will come to fruition?

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