Title: Over-40 Job Search Guide: 10 Strategies for Making Your Age an Advantage in Your Career
Publisher: Jist Works
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1593570902
ISBN 13: 9781593570903
Binding: paperback
Condition: New
Weight: 2 ounces

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Synopsis

The only career transition guide to exclusively provide workable solutions for the reemployment issues of over-40 year-old workers. The book shows readers how to present their age as an advantage to employers rather than a disadvantage. The book also boldly addresses midlife career transition issues by providing cutting-edge information, fresh strategies, and timely solutions. Captivating case studies from the author�s extensive work with over-40 job seekers engage readers and arm them for the real world.

Key Features:

*Checklists and assessments for career guidance
*Tips on avoiding and overcoming age-discrimination and cultural-misfit stereotyping
*Steps to finding the 10 advantages of age in a career search
*Clues on how to avoid common interview mistakes
*Strategies for networking and Internet job searches
*Hints on whether to take the entrepreneur route
*Simple resumes for over-40 job seekers, and tips for creating "ageless" resumes
*Online and print resources for more help
*Strategies for dealing with the emotional and financial strains of looking for a job
*A chapter on finding a new career after retirement

Review

A treasure chest that is packed with tips, samples of resumes, interview responses, and real-world examples. -- Daphne Moran, Information Technology Systems Specialist II, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA

A well-written, upbeat guide for over-40 workers. -- Mary Margaret Garrett, Chief, Workforce Development Division, Atlanta Regional Commission

Almost every chapter addresses the issue of change and how to manage different aspects of it. -- Kathryn Winston, Vocational Evaluator, Steuben Arc, Bath, NY

Gail Geary is a true career transition expert for the over-40 worker. -- L. Michelle Tullier, Ph.D., Senior Career Management Consultant-Right Management Consultants, Author, Networking for Job Search and Career Success

The "go to" book for the over-40 career search. The content is clear, contemporary, substantive, pithy, and pragmatic. -- Susan Boone MBA, MS, Psychotherapist, Speaker, and Writer

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