How Baby Boomers Get Hired – 4 Tips
- Have a state of the art resume reflecting your experience. Don’t include information earlier than the very late 1980′s unless it’s phenomenal and then use a hybrid presentation as opposed to straight chronology. Have a sharp design and layout and you’ll look contemporary.
- Get help with your interview clothes! Long before the handshake or the impressive tales of success, a pair of eyes will set upon you. What will they see? You don’t need to be young or buff but you do have to be well put together. A sign of “old” is old-style clothes or those that no longer fit. Love at first sight applies to employers!
- Learn the tools! Learn to text, understand Facebook and read up on the I-Phone. And whatever you do be up on the appropriate computer technology to get the job and do the job. Probably the only real advantage Gen X and Gen Y have is the technology around which they grew up! Don’t ever fear technology.
- Don’t “do” old! Don’t lack energy, don’t discuss your cholesterol and don’t resent Gen X and Gen Y believing they feel entitled to everything while you were forced to come up through the ranks. Enjoy the challenges of job search rather than complaining about the difficulties. Be the hero by demonstrating that you’ve overcome hardships before and they don’t faze you.
- Be a leader! When we raised kids we were expected to lead and have answers. Today more than ever companies are looking to your leadership. Offer it!
Read the original: CareerBoard.com
