Survival Tactics For The Mature Job Seeker
Job seeking is never a breeze. It requires effort, energy, determination, and right now, sheer bloody-mindedness. It’s difficult enough trying to find your first job without previous experience. But what if lack of experience isn’t your problem? You probably have too much experience in fact.
A scarier option is the fact that it has been literally years since you had to search for, apply and interview for a new position. If you have been at the same organisation or company for a large chunk of your career, you will be out of your comfort zone with your new job seeker status.
You will be up against those younger and more energetic. They may be more internet savvy also – and this is a skill that helps enormously in modern day recruitment. You might be feeling a little bit rusty, but there is good news if you are a mature job seeker.
The experience and knowledge in a 100k job you carry FAR outweighs the exuberant energy of youth. The more experienced or ‘specialist’ you are, the shallower the job pool admittedly, but you just need to limber up and put in the practice.
Employers are recognising the value if the mature worker more and more, you might just want to hone those survival tactics to see you through
What you can do
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