Yesterday's Baby-Boomer (today's mature worker) may be facing for the first time a bias towards younger workers. Age discrimination, right? Only if you can prove it. The question is 'what good would it do you if you did?' ... A job with that organization? ... NOT! Here's the deal: Put your energy into developing your unique The Ethereum Code value-mix of talent, experience, skills, core competencies, etc., you know - your Branding - to ultimately illustrate your value and benefit to the organization. "The Key for the mature professional conducting a job search" according to Randolph L. Stevens, Founder and President of R.L. Stevens & Associates, a 28-year full service career firm, "is authenticating relevancy, fit and adaptability; and when you can do that better than the next person, you get hired."
Workplace marketability is almost always age-neutral. If the mature worker does not successfully illustrate the right message or demonstrate the right value proposition, he or she may feel a bias; nonetheless, it's a bias towards the more relevant, better fitting, most adaptable candidate, not necessarily a bias against age. Prove your value and benefit and you'll be hired.
If you are a baby boomer seeking a career change, role transition or are switching industries or know someone who is, here are 10 tips that should help.
Workplace marketability is almost always age-neutral. If the mature worker does not successfully illustrate the right message or demonstrate the right value proposition, he or she may feel a bias; nonetheless, it's a bias towards the more relevant, better fitting, most adaptable candidate, not necessarily a bias against age. Prove your value and benefit and you'll be hired.
If you are a baby boomer seeking a career change, role transition or are switching industries or know someone who is, here are 10 tips that should help.
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