Age 40 Job Seekers: Can You Do A Better Job Than A Less Experienced Candidate? Then Why Are You Losing Offers To Them?

Do you know you can do a much better job than a candidate who is less experienced than you?

Most age 40 job seekers will answer this question with yes.

So ask yourself ... If you can do a better job, then why are you losing offers to less experienced candidates?

Maybe you're getting feedback that you're overqualified, or seeing that the jobs you've applied to are won by younger and less experienced competitors.

It's common that age 40, 50 and 60+ job seekers lose opportunities when they are qualified, even if they could do a better job ... to less experienced candidates.

Here are a few reasons why:

1. You try to appear only qualified.
2. You describe yourself as equivalent to less expensive candidates, attempting to avoid appearing overqualified.
3. You focus your resume (and interviews) on responsibilities, experience, qualifications, skills and tasks.
4. You don't understand an individual hiring manager's real and current needs, instead relying on the published job description.
5. You fail to prove you're worth higher perceived compensation requirements.

All of these reasons make you appear underpowered and overpriced when you're over 40 and competing for jobs with less experienced but qualified candidates. And you're facing many other qualified candidates in 2024, including ones who are less experienced (and less expensive than you).

But this is a perception that you can ... and you must ... change and control, when you're an age 40, 50 or 60 job seeker.

You know you're a better candidate, and you have the opportunity to sell yourself as a more effective new hire.??The only reason you aren't doing this, is because no one has taught you how.??Instead, you use gimmicks to try and hide you age (which backfires on you, because you can't build trust when being deceptive).?

I'll show you how beat ageism by overwhelming hiring managers with overwhelming proof that you can improve their team, department and company ... Proving you can do so much more that employers can't afford to hire a less experienced candidate.

I help people solve the most difficult job search problems, including job search acceleration, getting past ATSs, ageism, remote positions, product/job function/career/industry/ geographic change, unemployment, "bouncy" recent career path, job search turnaround, seeking raise/promotion, industry in decline/consolidation, long term gaps, family leave, or other of the most challenging job search issues.

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