Applying For A Job Through LinkedIn When You're Over 40?

?It can be tough searching for jobs when you're age 40+.

LinkedIn makes it even tougher.

Here are a few reasons applying for jobs on LinkedIn makes your age 40+ job search more difficult:

• Applying On LinkedIn Makes You More Likely To Get Screened Out:?When you apply on LinkedIn, you can't customize your resume for an individual hiring manager's needs. When you customize your LinkedIn profile, it's changed for everyone. Employer Applicant Tracking Systems are designed to give candidates a big advantage when they customize their resume for the hiring manager's individual needs, and penalize those who don't - LinkedIn removes this advantage from you.
• You Look The Same As Everyone Else:?Applying with your LinkedIn profile is intended to make you appear qualified. But in today's job market for senior staff, management and executive roles, you're competing against so many qualified candidates that qualified seems average to employers.
• Employers Perceive You To Be More Expensive - To Overcome This You Need To Do More:?Applying on LinkedIn isn't doing more, it's doing less. It's so easy to apply on LinkedIn, but it's more difficult to do more of what's important to employers (because an employer doesn't care how many jobs you've applied to).

Good thing there's a better way to overcome job search ageism - You'd already be doing this if you knew how.

I help people solve the most difficult job search problems, including getting past ATSs, ageism, remote positions, product/job function/career/industry/ geographic change, job search acceleration, 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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