Age 40+ Candidates Have Lots Of Experience (Great, average, poor?)

If you're an age 40+ job seeker, I'm sure your resume is loaded with lots of experience.

You're trying to show employers how qualified you are with all of your responsibilities and your experience.

... And it's why your job search is struggling.

Hiring managers know that just because you have many years of?experience?doesn't mean that it's great experience, because you haven't been taught to prove whether it's great, average or poor on your resume and interviews. So you make employers guess, and it's not turning out well for you.

That's because you've been taught to show that you're qualified. But it's not enough for hiring managers, especially when you're in your 40s, 50s, and 60s.

When you've had more experience, all that proves is that you've had more annual raises ... making employers perceive that you're more expensive than other candidates with similar experience. But you make them guess if your experience was great, average, or poor.

And when a hiring manager has choices of many qualified candidates, like they do in 2023, qualified = average. When combined with lots of experience, employers perceive you as average, with many annual raises ... average + expensive. With many qualified candidates to choose from, why would an employer choose an expensive candidate who appears only average?

Of course that's not the feedback an employer will give you, because it risks lawsuits. Instead, you're told that you're overqualified, or that we found someone who's a better match for the job. That's if you get an interview or advance in the hiring process, because many hiring managers will screen out average and expensive candidates early in the process, no matter how qualified you are.

If this sounds like your job search, you can change the game. Instead of doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results, why not learn changes to your resume/interview/job search process that portrays you as the top candidate? Why not prove to employers that you're so valuable, that you'd be a steal for the employer, even at a higher salary than your competition?

Anyone can make these changes, even poor or average performers. You'd already be doing this if you knew how, so why not let me show you how?

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