Posts Tagged ‘Age’
Money Magazine: Age-Proof Your Career
The issue of age and the job search is a hot topic in the job search world lately. Age is one of those variables we have little control over and everyone will have the frustrating experience of being judge by age (too young or too old) as opposed to skill and capability. (And of course [...]
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Pick Up the That Outdated Old Phone & Get a Job
In the last couple of weeks I have had conversations with several twenty-somethings about professional communications and the job search. I was shocked but should not have been surprised when they told me how uncomfortable they are talking on the phone.
Why? Because this group rarely uses the phone to communicate verbally to one another. They [...]
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Degree-less and Doomed??? You have got to be kidding.
I am all for college degrees. In fact I have a couple myself. But for many people, getting the college degree didn’t happen either by plan or by circumstances. Despite this they have built a good career holding the types of professional jobs even though their peers in similar positions had degrees.
How does this happen?
Simple actually. These degree-less people [...]
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Locked Out by a Factor of “Too”
Job seekers – all job seekers – have, or at least believe they have, some vulnerability that they feel gets in the way of their ability to get hired. Under qualified, over qualified, too old, too young, too ugly, too pretty, wrong color, wrong name, wrong town – the list goes on. It is not [...]
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