Surprising Ways To Beat Job Search Ageism And Find A Job By Year-End

When you're over 40, you probably feel that you continue to hear the same tired job search advice from career coaches, outplacement advisors, and professional resume writers.

This tired advice isn't helping you land your next job by year-end, especially if you're in your 40s, 50s or 60's.

When you keep hearing the same tired advice as your competitors, you look and sound like your competitors. And that meh job search advice isn't helping you overcome employer age discrimination.

Because when you use the same advice that's taught to you and everyone else, you look like everyone else - average - no matter how much you try to differentiate yourself.

In addition, you make the same job search mistakes as your competitors, because you and everyone else were all taught the same job search strategies.

This won't help you land a job no matter your age ... but it's even more damaging to your search when you're over 40.

Here are some surprising ways to beat job search ageism, so you can find your next job by year-end:

1. Make Age The Reason An Employer Will Want To Hire You: As an age 40+ job seeker, you know you you're fare more effective than less experienced candidates. Prove this in your resume/interview to make age your superpower by selling yourself more effectively. While focusing your resume and interviews on impact proves success, focusing on responsibilities/experience/qualifications/skills only sells you as an average candidate (while being perceived as more expensive). By focusing on the individual hiring manager's current needs, it proves that you've gone beyond the job description to understand their real needs, and enables you to show how you've solved similar problems successfully.
2. Stop Hiding Early Career, Dates, Including Graduation Dates: This almost never works, almost always backfires, yet almost every career resource teaches age 40+ job seekers to exclude early jobs, early career dates and graduation dates. This low benefit/high risk advice is based on a false assumption, your deception is easily seen by employers, and you can't support the deception during zoom/in-person interviews. This gives employers the perception of "what else are you hiding", which creates a good reason to hire someone else. Hiring managers won't hire a candidate they can't trust (would you?) - It's impossible to gain trust by deceiving employers.
3. Prove You'll Do More On The Job By Doing More To Find Better Employer Research Information: Why wouldn't employers expect more from age 40, 50 and 60+ job seekers, because they expect you're looking for higher compensation than a 30-year-old. By going beyond publicly available employer research information, you'll show employers you'll do more on the job. Publicly available information (like published job descriptions, company websites, Google) gives you zero advantage over competitors, nor will it help you understand an individual hiring manager's current key/priority problems (especially the job description).

You're probably not using these strategies, only because no one has taught you how. But I'll bet you wish knew how to use them and recognize they'll be more effective to help you find a great job by year-end when you're over 40.

Chances are that trying to overcome ageism by increasing volume of job applications, means you'll continue making the same mistakes more often. That's unlikely to make your search faster. It will make it even less likely to help you to find a job by the end of 2024.

Let me show you more effective strategies to overcome age bias to make your search faster during my next free Resume Webinar – Beating Job Search Ageism.

During my next webinar, I'll show you even more ways to overcome age bias, so you can find a great job by year-end when you're 40, 50 or 60+.

During my next free Resume Webinar, Beating Job Search Ageism, I'll show you how to make employers think: "Wow, I need you on my team!" (instead of being seen as just another qualified, average candidate). When we're done with that, I'll teach you other ways to overcome age bias, so you can accelerate your job search when you're 40, 50 or 60+.

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