July 2025: WHAT WE’RE SEEING

We are in two historic change trends now. Changes and uncertainty in funding of capital projects, social services, education, government agencies, and more are leading to layoffs and delayed hiring. Government policies impact multinational manufacturing and those companies who supply them, and those companies have slowed down their hiring until business conditions and demand are more predictable.

With these layoffs, large numbers of people with similar skills and knowledge flood a local market. It takes longer for the community to reabsorb them than if there were just a few. Moving and changing fields may help shorten the time it takes to land a new job.

Yet, the second historic change is as disruptive, or even more and policy changes. AI is making some jobs redundant and increasing productivity of others. Employers don’t know if they can keep new hires for more than a year with these developing technologies and so are reluctant to hire. Plus, a few candidates use AI to falsely promote themselves and their accomplishments. Hiring processes are much longer and more complex with more testing than just a year ago.

• If you are employed, you may want to increase your networking to be ready to take a new job, to learn how your field is changing, and to learn about possible new fields that you’re interested in, or get ideas to upgrade your skills.

• Be very accurate in your representations of yourself. Create a portfolio of projects and accomplishments even if you are not a creative. Ask for references from more people you’ve interacted with than you think necessary.

• Education professionals may find the hiring season has shifted to August this year. Keep talking with people who share your interests.

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.