Best And Worst Ways To Beat Job Search Ageism With Your Resume

One of the bigger challenges that age 40+ candidates face today is poor advice.

Most career coaches/authors and outplacement firms give terrible advice to age 40+ job seekers, instead suggesting to use the worst ways to beat job search ageism.

To make matters worse, these resources also fail to teach the best way to beat ageism.

So it's a good thing you've got me ... to show you a better way.

The Worst Way To Beat Job Search Ageism:?Trying to hide your age through specific exclusion - Excluding graduation dates, early jobs, and/or dates of early jobs. This is taught as a way to beat ATS screening for dates before a target date, to estimate age. But they don't tell you the reasons why this trick fails:

• Employers screening based on dates leave an audit trail of illegal age discrimination:?So it's rare this actually happens.
• ATSs can also screen for the lack of dates:?To screen out applicants who are trying to hide something.
• Excluding dates/early career sticks out like a red flag to human screeners:?It causes human screeners to wonder "What are you hiding? Age, or something worse" - Hiding dates and early career is exactly how candidates trying to hide jail time, theft, or fraud write resumes.
• You set a first impression of being much younger than you really are:?If you actually get an interview, your resume made a first impression that you can't live up to in person. You risk that you'll instead create a first impression that you deceived the employer and aren't trustworthy (Come on, let's be honest ... you did try to deceive them about your age).

The Best Way To Beat Ageism With Your Resume:?Demonstrate overwhelming Impact. Take a look at your resume - If it's like almost all resumes today, it focuses your reader on job descriptions/responsibilities. These don't clearly show employers if you were a success or failure, but forces them to guess. Lack of impact undersells you as a candidate, as you fail to show employers you're worth a higher salary (and fail to overcome employer perception that you're more expensive, and appear that you're not worth a higher perceived expense). If you're losing opportunities to younger, less expensive candidates, you haven't proved to employers you're worth your anticipated compensation. Employers respond by taking a risk on a less expensive choice.

This is just one example of far more effective ways to get interviews, beat ageism, and land a great job fast when you're age 40+.

During my next complimentary webinar, I'll teach you best practices to get your resume through and around ATSs, so you can avoid being blocked for jobs when you're qualified and find your next job fast.?While we're at it, I'll show you ways to double your interviews, whether you're currently employed, unemployed, age 40+, changing careers, or have other job search challenges.

I've been teaching job seekers to beat job search ageism for 14+ years. I'll show you how to find a great job in 2022 with a resume and job search that understands employers' points of view and syncs with hiring processes.

(BTW, I'm not just a career coach. I've also been a top national recruiter for the last 17 years ... so you'll get advice from an insider's point of view.)

Let me show you what to change in your job search and resume, so you can beat ageism and find a great job in 2022,?no matter if you're currently employed, unemployed, changing careers/industry/location, searching for a raise or promotion, remote position or have other tough job search problems.

Join me for my complimentary Resume Revolution! webinar, Saturday 3/5/22 at 11:00am ET/8:00am PT (enroll at https://bit.ly/3tgo5GG at no charge) to learn how to beat job search ageism and find your next job fast in 2022.

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* Competition levels in this job market recovery

* How to optimize your job search and resume to today's market realities

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