Rejected While Caught Interviewing When 40+, 50+, 60+?
Phil Rosenberg
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If you've been rejected while caught interviewing when 40+, 50+, or 60+, you've probably been frustrated and angry.
Frustrated that employers would hire someone less experienced than you and angry with employer ageism.
While there can be many reasons you didn't get the interview, didn't advance, or didn't get the offer, the most common reason is something you can control.
The most common reason age 40+, 5)+ and 60+ candidates face employment ageism is they fail to prove to employers that they're worth the higher compensation that employers expect from more senior candidates.
This is because most age 40+ candidates do a poor job in proving to employers on their resume and in interviews that they're worth higher compensation levels, instead expecting that their years of experience proves it. (Years of experience doesn't tell an employer if you were a success or failure ... only that you're probably more expensive than a candidate with less experience).
Most job seekers over 40 have been taught to show that they're qualified. But when you compete against 65% of the US workforce expected to change jobs this year, portraying yourself as qualified makes you appear average (110M job seekers competing for 11M jobs).
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You'd change this if someone taught you how, and you'd be amazed at how many more interviews you landed, how much farther you'd advance in the hiring process, and how quickly you'd start to get good job offers.
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