How Most Career Resources Aggravate Your Job Search Ageism Problems

Outplacement advisors, career coaches and authors are supposed to make your job search easier, right?

So why do most of them give such bad advice to age 40+ job seekers, making age 40, 50, and 60 candidates lose so many job opportunities?

Here are a few common examples of how most outplacement, career coaches and authors aggravate job search ageism:

• Hiding Your Age:?Most career resources teach you to hide your age by excluding early career and graduation dates. But this can be easily caught by employers through Applicant Tracking Systems, HR/recruiter pre-screening, and during interviews. Just think how fun it would be to have an employer catch you hiding your age during an interview, when you look 5, 10, 15, or 20 years older than the perception you gave on your resume. You can't win a job without building trust, yet outplacement advisors, most career coaches and authors teach you to deceive employers to get interviews.
• Showing Average Effort:?Most career advisors teach you to apply for jobs online, or network after they are posted, demonstrating average effort to employers. But employers who are interested in age 40+ candidates look for candidates who can improve team, department and company performance. Since average effort doesn't prove to employers that you can improve performance, you need to do more in your resume and job search to prove you'll do more on the job. Two ways to prove you can do more is by doing more on your resume, through heavy resume customization and avoiding publicly available information.
• Not Proving You're Worth It:?Most career resources teach you to present yourself as qualified (but when employers see many qualified candidates, qualified = average). Employers perceive that more senior candidates have higher salary expectations, so they expect more from age 40+ job seekers. If your resume and interview doesn't prove to employers that you're worth it, you encourage hiring less expensive (and often less experienced) candidates, instead of you. You can do a much better job in your resumes and interviews by focusing on overwhelming impact you've provided to past employers, rather than trying to show how qualified you are.

Good thing you can overcome all of these common mistakes of?age?40+ job seekers, to stop aggravating job search?ageism.

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