3 Ways To Beat Job Search Ageism That Nobody Ever Told You

When you're over 40, it can seem like all you hear is the same old job search advice from career coaches, outplacement advisors, and professional resume writers.

And that same old advice isn't helping you overcome employer age discrimination.

Because when you use the same old advice that's taught to you and everyone else, you look like everyone else - average.?

Worse, you make the same job search mistakes as every other age 40+ job seeker.

And that won't help you land a job no matter your age ... but it's even more damaging to your search when you're 40, 50 or 60+.

Here are 3 ways that nobody ever told you before to beat job search ageism:

1. Don't Try To Hide Your Age: This almost never works, almost always kills your opportunities, yet almost every career resource teaches age 40+ job seekers to exclude early jobs, early career dates and graduation dates. This advice is based on an untrue assumption, your deception is easily seen by employers, and you can't support the deception during zoom/in-person interviews (giving employers the perception of "what else are you hiding"). Hiring managers won't hire a candidate they can't trust, and you can't build trust through deception.
2. Uncover?Better Employer Research Information: Employers expect more from age 40, 50 and 60+ job seekers, because they expect you'll have higher compensation expectations (just due to the compounding effect of annual raises). A great way you can show employers you'll do more is to do more in your employer research, by going beyond publicly available information. Publicly available information (like job descriptions, company websites, Google) gives you zero advantage over competitors. Even worse, publicly available information won't help you understand an individual hiring manager's current key/priority problems and most isn't even current (especially the job description).
3. Sell Yourself More Effectively: As an age 40+ job seeker, you know you can run circles around less experienced candidates. Prove this in your resume/interview and make age your greatest asset by selling yourself more effectively. While focusing on responsibilities/experience/qualifications/ skills portrays you as average, focusing on impact proves a track record of success. Focusing on the individual hiring manager's current needs, proves that you've gone beyond the job description to understand their real needs, allowing you to show you've solved similar problems successfully.

You probably can feel it in your gut that these strategies will be more effective to help you find a great job quickly when you're over 40. But you're probably not using them, because no one has taught you how.?

Why continue making the same mistakes more often, by trying to overcome ageism through volume of job applications? Let me show you more effective strategies to overcome age bias during my next Resume Webinar – Beating Job Search Ageism.

During my next free webinar, I'll show these and additional ways to overcome age bias, so you can save your career when you're 40, 50 or 60+.

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