Cast member Robert De Niro arrives for the premiere of “The Intern” in New York September 21, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson Ben Whittaker is 70, retired and discovers that tai chi classes, learning a new language and visiting his grand-kids isn’t all it’s…
How To Get A Good Job After 50
How to Get a Good Job After 50: A step-by-step guide to job search success by Rupert French My rating: 5 of 5 stars – This is my Good Reads review of this excellent book, available on Amazon.com.au. How to Get a Good Job After 50 by Rupert French is a comprehensive guide for the over […]
What Older Workers Need To Know To Get the Job They Want
I recently created a Career Renovation program to help older people get the job they want. It was a way of sharing my experience with many people at once after years of helping older workers, one at a time, to make career transitions. I was motivated to do it because I'd talked to one too many older workers who […]
Older Worker Interviewed On Channel 9
This week a delightful 56 year old woman, Carolyn Young, was interviewed on Channel 9's Today program about her plight. She had been unemployed for over a year despite being experienced, articulate, qualified and very pleasant in her manner. She believed that her problems came from age discrimination and that was obviously the point of […]
Is Age Discrimination The Reason You Aren’t Getting The Jobs You Want?
Is age always the reason that older people don’t get the jobs they apply for? Age discrimination is a reality, but there are several others reasons why people don’t get the job they want. Could one of these five issues be damaging your job search success?
Are You Making These Ten Job Search Mistakes Of Older Workers?
This infographic is a summary of the ten most common mistakes I see older workers make when they commence a job search. It was written in response to one client's request for help. I analysed her situation, her resume and cover letter, and observed the following 10 classic mistakes being made. Many of the mistakes were […]
Preparing To Search For A New Job
Complacency is one of the greatest enemies of the mature worker. If you aren’t growing in your role, learning new skills, open to new and better ways of doing things, you can be sure that someone else around you will be. Often people who are caught unaware by a redundancy recognize, too late to save […]
Changes That Affect Your Career Change
The world of work has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. Anyone who is 40+ has seen business and employment practices revolutionized, with advantages and disadvantages innate in every major change. People in their 50s and 60s have also witnessed the entire evolution of the information age and the integration of digital technology into every […]
Do The Work You Love and Change The World
In this video Scott Dinsmore speaks passionately about how important it is to find work that you love and do that work with passion and purpose. His enthusiasm is contagious, and he speaks with the personal insight of having left the corporate world in search of work that would give his life fulfilment. The video is […]
Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
In this TED talk Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, speaks frankly about the reasons why capable women often don't make it to the top. In her opinion it's got nothing to do with talent or even discrimination. It begins with the women's belief in themselves, their unwillingness to put themselves forward for opportunities […]