Everyone knows building a brand takes hustle, grind, long days, shameless self-promotion, and showing up everywhere. Finding a job takes the same effort.
Senior leaders in transition need the same mindset. In the current market, expect to spend more time and energy marketing and selling yourself when searching for jobs.
Read MoreFor many men, career success has followed a clear arc: build expertise, climb the ladder, deliver results, gain status, and provide security. For decades, it works. Until it doesn’t.
Research on midlife often focuses on the loss of youth or on questioning life choices. But when it’s about work, for senior men, the experience is frequently more specific and more destabilising: a direct hit to professional identity and self-worth.
