Courtesy, Artfulrabbit.com
You spend your life trying to get experience – then suddenly have too much!
Employers don’t care about past experience. CEOs care about business outcomes and profitability; they want to know what you can do for them now.
You need to translate or reframe your experience to demonstrate how you can solve today’s business problems. And be passionate – it is key to your being hired over someone who has the skills or experience but could not care less.
These are just a few of the points David DeLong discusses in this outstanding video produced by an equally outstanding project called Over50AndOutofWork. David DeLong is a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab, founder of David DeLong & Associates, author of Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce and co-author of the study Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?. DeLong provides very specific recommendations and strategies for older jobseekers to maximize the success of their job search – and the good news is that he is optimistic about the future for older workers.
This is a 30-minute video – don’t miss a minute of DeLong’s valuable tips!
