Are you an older skilled worker who has been through a couple of decades of cyclical job expansion and contraction? Then you should be able to gain a few pearls of wisdom from this article. We sometimes forget the benefits that older works bring to a potential (or existing) employer. You do not have…
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5 Simple Steps To Create A More Powerful Phone Interview: Day 3
Even in the age of rapidly improving technology, a simple phone conversation has the potential to unlock your next career. The answer to a few qualifying questions from your interviewer has the ultimate power of deciding your fate. Let’s face it, your either ending the conversation and being placed in the “YES candidate” pile or…
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10 Ways To Leverage Linked In: Day 7
If you are an older skilled worker who is in the market for a job you should be taking advantage of the significant benefits LinkedIn can bring to your job search: including warm leads into companies or to people you are targeting, the possibility of creating new job leads through recruiters who frequently use the…
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Keeping Your Resume Out Of The “B” Pile (AKA trash):Day 5
Whatever Happened to my Resume? Astronomers define a black hole as a region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape. I have often heard job seekers refer to the application process as a “black hole where resumes go, never to be heard from again”. Did you ever wonder why this is? Considering the…
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Resume Advice For Over 40 Job Seekers:Day 3
Whenever Robert Skladany conducts workshops for job seekers over age 50, he hears one word again and again: résumés. Among the men and women in these groups – some unemployed, others reentering the workforce – a common concern predominates. “They feel they are not at all familiar with contemporary résumés,” says Mr. Skladany, vice president…
