March 2025: WHAT WE’RE SEEING

Two main points: Multinational corporations and those companies who supply them slowed down their hiring until after the US inauguration, so that they would know what the business conditions would be for planning. Now as they sort through tariff implications, they are moving slowly to hire while updating their plans.

Government funding cuts are leading to layoffs. When large numbers of people with similar skills and knowledge flood a local market, it takes longer for them to be rehired. Moving and changing fields helps shorten the time it takes to land a new job. Networking is the most important activity to shorten the time between jobs.

• If you are employed, you may want to increase your networking to be ready, but not announce that you’re leaving until late in Spring.

• Get some new business cards. We’re exchanging them again.

If you feel uncertain, like you are wandering aimlessly, or pushing hard but not getting where you need to go...

We’re Expanding!

Career change at mid-life is always part of a larger transition “season.” The path can be difficult to find - sometimes it’s soul-searching, sometimes it’s resume writing, and sometimes it’s something that is gnawing at you that seems irrelevant.

Midlife transitions are about getting your life right - making adjustments that set you up for long term prosperous living into old age. The universe gives you time to do this between work roles, even though it seems more logical to get the new job and then tackle everything else. Along the way to solving problems, we meet the people who will bring the new work to you.

… you need a guide through the territory.

First your guide brings clarity. You don’t just need a job. You also need to get clear about where you really are, what’s in the way of making things better, where you want to go, what strengths you have to bring with you, and how to journey.

Second, your guide brings process. Our proprietary step-by-step know-how, tools and practices, based in decades of research, mean you will always know what to do and what to say.

And third, we encourage. You are an individual with goals, aspirations and talents that need to be highlighted so you are attractive to the people who are looking for someone just like you.

We’re building up the new institute for prosperous living!

We are revising and revitalizing our experiential learning opportunities to escort you in your transition journey. We stress using tools and techniques that attract opportunities rather than selling yourself. We show you how to increase the number and quality of gifts that come your way through:

• Effective Roadblock removal: Targeting your specific obstacles to living fully and prosperously.

• Effective connecting: Share your interests and passions with similar others so you make progress faster and more easily.

• Meaningful exchanges and interactions: Practice connecting with your ideal employer, spouse, friends and even formerly antagonistic family. Plus, maintain effective boundaries.

• Solid strategies for getting past shyness and absence of desire - two of the most insidious obstacles to security.