Mary Eileen Williams, author
“Land the Job You Love!”
One third of job seekers are now over 55!
How are we doing?
U.S. News and World Report and Mary Eileen Williams are saying job seekers 55 and over are getting more jobs than any other category of workers. We have the lowest unemployment figures. That’s good news!
In a recent television [see right sidebar] interview, Mary Eileen Williams, detailed the good news for those over 55 seeking jobs and offered some critical tips.
Among her tips:
- Tech Skills – get technical skills, sign-up for online training or a course. We do need some of those skills.
- Resume – you must customize your resume to the position skill set that is posted otherwise it will not come up in their scanning. It will not even be seen.
- Presenting your Age/Dates – on a resume you only need to go back 15 years. Put some job titles in a separate category – additional experience – with titles and no date. Do not try to make yourself sound 30 or 35! That’s a mistake.
- Regular Networking – ask friends to review your resume – see if you pass the 30-second test. Employers spend 30 seconds or less before they decide whether to read a resume; your skill set has to pop out at them.
- Action Verbs – take ownership of skill set you are presenting and focus on the results you have produced.
- Younger Employers – it behooves one to bring this up in the interview; for example: throughout my career I have worked with people of all ages, people younger than I am and it has never been a problem.
- LinkedIn – your profile should line-up with everything you have on your resume.
What about a “Thank you” email? Botox? Gray Hair? Find out more by watching the interview.
For a complete guide to getting “The Job You Love!” order her book!
Mary Eileen Williams, M.A.,N.C.C. has more than twenty years combined experience as a career/life transition counselor, workshop facilitator, and writer. She is a Nationally Board Certified Counselor, and specializes in working with women in midlife and mid-career transitions. Her most recent book is, “Land the Job You Love!: 10 Surefire Strategies for Jobseekers Over 50,” Click Here to Buy
She is the founder of the popular blog, Feisty Side of Fifty and host of the Live blogtalkradio program of the same name http://www.blogtalkradio.com/feisty-side-of-fifty