Beyond the Numbers The Hedley Hoeger Group Quarterly Newsletter

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Happy Spring from the Hedley Hoeger Welcome! Group!

We hope that the first quarter of 2021 has been a Getting off the productive and positive one. We are thrilled with Ground: the feedback on our quarterly newsletter and look Resolutions forward to continuing to connect with you. Please let us know if there are any topics related to career MidCareer: or preparation that are of interest to Workplace Trends you, or that you would like to learn more about. We in 2021 strive to provide content that is relevant and worthwhile. If there is a topic you would like to see Looking at featured in our next Newsletter, please send Jodi a Retirement: note. Thank you for your continued support and Finding and partnership. Landing that “Right Fit” Volunteer Position Team Update

Career Resolutions Take Care of Yourself. Both mentally and Holly McFarland physically.

This is the perfect time to take stock of your Design an Effective Career Plan. Create and career. follow a map for career success, just as if Take some time during the first part of the planning a trip. Set immediate and future- year to conduct a reality check of your based goals, then review and adjust them as professional life. This means evaluating your you progress along your journey. Career career path, updating your resume to reflect coaches and workshops can be a great asset recent accomplishments and creating goals as you develop and maintain your plan. for the new year. Follow Through On Actions. Across the board Here are a few things you can do to position – stop putting things off. Start with the small yourself for career success in 2021 and things. You’ll be amazed at how much beyond. simpler and more fluid your life becomes. Procrastination is a thief of time. You can’t Love What You Do. Learn what you need out build a life on what your “going to do.” of a career and become one of those people that get up in the morning looking forward to a day at work.

Create Your Personal Brand. How you are perceived is critical to your career success. Personal branding is a way of This is the perfect time to take creating demand for YOU. Create a personal brand strategy for yourself; determine what stock of your career. sets you apart from others and what makes you unique, then define strategies that will create a positive perception.

Develop and Maintain a Powerful Resume. Review and polish your resume on a regular Workplace Trends in 2021 - basis, adding accomplishments when they Highlights from Glassdoor’s occur and new skills as they are developed. It should be the “living Economic Research Report document” of your career. Holly McFarland

Expand Your Network. Assess your current The combination of a global pandemic, sever network and identify what is working and , widespread social unrest and what is not. Join, and be active in, a group highly polarized national election has left or association. Whether it’s a professional experts more in the dark than usual about group tied to your field, a civic organization, what comes next in 2021. or a networking association, these get- togethers provide regular opportunities to Today’s challenges at work understandably meet new people, and learn new things. have sparked anxiety about and the Keep Your Skills Strong. Industries, future of the U.S. economy. But they also technologies and work environments are present opportunities to do better – to continually changing – are you keeping rethink how we organize work, what we pace? Renew your commitment to value as workers and employers, and to find in 2021, ensuring that your knowledge base, common ground that will help us head certifications and vital skills are current. together and rebuild in 2021 and beyond.

Glassdoor, one of the largest job and seekers say they wouldn’t apply to a job at a recruiting sites, help people everywhere, company where there’s a lack of workforce find a job and a company they love. Their diversity. recent report presents the five most compelling workplace trends they see Trend 3: emerging into the workplace as the Covid-19 expectations get a permanent Work crisis has unfolded. These trends are what From Home rehaul they believe will take hold as the pandemic Millions of Americans are thinking about continues to unfold in the coming year. moving to new cities while working from home. If they do, brace for big salary Glassdoor’s goal is to offer insights on how adjustments in 2021 as workers face a workers and employers can best prepare for shifting competitive landscape. Although these trends in the years ahead - to hedge every worker is different, and it’s not against the risks they pose and harness the possible to predict a single base pay opportunities they create to build a better adjustment that’s appropriate for every workplace of the future. employee, they predict a tidal wave of comp adjustments in 2021 as many tech and professional services workers go remote and move away from company HQs. Today’s challenges present new

opportunities to do better – rethink Trend 4: how we work, what we value and to Even the best company cultures must find common ground. adapt to new post-COVID-19 realities

Companies have lost an important way of

controlling corporate identity and

employer brand during Covid-19: the

Trend 1: design, look and feel of corporate

Office life will return but it will never be headquarters. Three factors matter most

the same for worker satisfaction, none of which Millions of Americans began working remotely depend on maintaining in-person offices: in 2020. Prepare for an unprecedented wave Having a compelling company mission, of experimentation and innovation around promoting transparent and empathetic hybrid remote-in-office roles. Both history leaders, and building clear career and data suggest that most workers will opportunities for workers. ultimately return to in-person work arrangements once it’s safe to do so. In 2021 Trend 5: we expect workers splitting time between The Covid-19 recession is probably over, home and the office to be a more common but these jobs may never return workplace policy. Many jobs were lost and won’t be coming back soon. Glassdoor data shows Trend 2: devastating impacts on lower-skilled Employees expect progress, not just service jobs, jobs in education, pledges, on corporate Diversity, Equity, administrative office roles, sales roles, and Inclusion and many discretionary healthcare jobs. Racial inequality took center stage in 2020, Some jobs surge ahead during COVID-19. which pushed companies to make tangible While hiring is down during the pandemic, progress on diversity and inclusion like never some employers in e-commerce, before. Hiring for diversity, equity and healthcare and other inclusion roles has been on the rise for years, front-line industries will likely continue to and that will likely accelerate sharply in ramp up hiring in 2021. 2021. About 1 in 3 employees and job

Move into 2021 inspired about what is - Do you want something that can be all- possible in the world of work after COVID- consuming, such as starting your own 19 is behind us, as well as a playbook for business, or a more low-key job with reimaging what it means to be a great fewer responsibilities? workplace in 2021 and beyond.

The next step is to examine areas of your Is an Encore Career Right for life for important clues and insights into You? what might be possible. Look at the Holly McFarland following:

Encore Professional Expertise. During your career Encore Career was a term coined by Marc you have built skills, contacts and industry Freedman in his book “Encore: Finding Work knowledge that can be repackaged in That Matters in the Second Half of Life.” It many different ways. The key is to start is defined as work in the second half of life thinking out of the box and to come up that combines continued income, greater personal meaning, and social impact. In this with new ideas. Ask yourself, how do I new stage of life and work, many baby repurpose my skills, interests, and boomers are seeking jobs that offer not just experiences in new ways? a paycheck, but also an opportunity to use their skills and experience to contribute to Interests/Hobbies. Take inventory of all the greater good. your hobbies and interests. Is it possible to generate income from one of these? People are living longer, and as a result are working longer. By 2026, the 75 and older Strengths and Talents. All of us have age group is projected to have the fastest natural gifts and strengths that can be put growth in terms of share of the US labor to good use in an encore career. Consider force, followed by the 65 to 74 year old age taking the Strengthsfinder 2.0 assessment group according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is good news for those interested in an to identify some strengths or talents you encore career! might not be aware of.

Assess Your Next Step Purpose and Causes. Many boomers have a Encore careers can be a time for trying desire to make a difference in the world. something new and different. Are you looking Think about those causes and for new opportunities that would foster a organizations you would like to work with. sense of purpose and growth but unsure of Research the ways you could use your how to go about it? I encourage you to ask skills and strengths to add value. yourself some questions:

- Do you want to work full time? Community Needs. Every community has unique needs. What are ways you could - If finances don’t require full-time be a part of helping your community? work, is part-time a better fit?

- Are you eager to tackle a whole new career? Or do you want to continue primarily in the field you just left?

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Where the Jobs Are According to encore.org., a non-profit Encore careers can be a time for trying website that provides information for something new and different during this people pursuing encore careers, most job new phase in life. Looking for new opportunities fall into six categories: opportunities that foster a sense of purpose and growth can give new meaning 1. Education: Adjunct teachers, to retirement. The best advice I was given coaches/mentors, content advisers, as I approached retirement, was to stay project coordinators and tutors. curious and open to new ideas!

2. Healthcare: Community workers, chronic illness coaches, In this new stage of life, medications coaches, patient many look for an encore navigators/advocates, and home career that offers a modification specialists. paycheck plus the

3. Environment: Many “Green” jobs opportunity to utilize skills require specific technical skills. There and experience to are also job opportunities for contribute to the greater without specific environmental good. backgrounds, such as those who have worked in project management, architecture, engineering, accounting, human resources, and marketing.

4. Government: The government is facing labor shortages in key skilled positions, including administrative roles, the medical and health field, and security and law enforcement. To browse government jobs, visit www.usajobs.gov or your state’s website.

5. Non-Profits: One of the fastest growing job sectors, non-profits provide job opportunities for a wide variety of workers, including accountants, artists, attorneys, carpenters, computer programmers, designers, educators, electricians, event planners, fundraisers, human resource professionals, managers, marketers, and many others.

6. Entrepreneurship: Provides the opportunity to turn a lifetime interest or hobby into a personally rewarding and potentially profitable career.

The Hedley Hoeger Team Update

Spring is a time of renewal. Leaves are back on the trees, flowers are in bloom and the days warm up. It is also a time to refresh our lives with spring cleaning, planting new seeds and spending more time outdoors. As we moved through early 2021, there was a sense of an end to our lives in a pandemic. Although we never know what the future holds, we strive to focus on what we can control; finding that work/life balance and ultimately enhancing our overall health and happiness.

On that note, our Trilogy Series with Lindsay Troxell, Janus Henderson Investors in the first quarter was very well received. Lindsay helped us bring an energy and focus to our physical, mental and emotional well-being. Our feedback was overwhelmingly positive! If you would like recordings of the conversations, please let us know. We are working on another program with Lindsay in the future.

We are also thrilled to offer additional conversations with our Lifelaunch coach Holly McFarland this summer. Look for details in the near future on what interesting topics she has planned.

Enjoy the spring season and as always, thank you for your continued partnership.

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