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Your Worst Job Search Tactic Over 50? Hiding Your Age
by John Tarnoff at johntarnoff.com
Conventional job search wisdom tries to make you hate yourself for being old. It makes your age a liability in your job search – something to be ashamed of and to keep hidden. Don’t buy into this toxic mindset.
In fact, your age is one of the biggest assets in your job search and on your resume. You know it.
Career Pivot: How to Emerge Stronger in Your New Career
by Wendy Marx at business2community.com
Change is inevitable. From starting school, to graduation, to work, to creating new relationships and a new family…and a thousand incidents in between. One major change many people confront is a career pivot — transitioning into a new career, even after many years in the same job.
Why is this so difficult?
Think ageism
is a U.S. problem?
Think again.
Making a Noise
The International Journal
for Age Diversity
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How Women Over 50 Can Feel Invincible, Not Invisible
Their advice for starting a business, pivoting or finding work in midlife
by Kerry Hannon at nextavenue.org
It was the shockwave of rejection letters from hiring managers that goaded Guadalupe Hirt and Barbara Brooks to launch SecondActWomen, a Denver-based company designed to help working women in their 50s and older (and also some in their 40s) start companies, pivot careers and stay employed…
In 2018, the pull of a steady paycheck, employer-provided health benefits and the chance to save more for retirement drew both women to pursue full-time, in-house positions — unsuccessfully. And that's where the idea for SecondActWomen took shape.
NIFTY TIP of the DAY
Are you a Fluke?
Despite all the planning, some job finds are just plain luck
You’ve probably heard ad nauseum about the importance of planning and execution in your job search. And if you haven’t done it in a while, job seeking can be a more daunting task than your last job.
Granted, there is an element of serendipity in the whole process. And according to dictionary.com, serendipity consists of “making desirable discoveries by accident.”
And yet we’ve all heard stories about accidents – people who fall over backwards into a job. MORE
