Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job How to Overcome Ageism in Your Job Search, with Kevin Kermes
Feb 21, 2018
41:34
If you’re over 50, you’ve likely encountered ageism in your career. Older workers struggle in the job search and feel a disadvantage in competition with younger professionals. So what can you do? The first thing to do might be to rethink your entire job search strategy. On this episode of Find Your Dream Job, we discuss one strategy to overcome ageism in a job search: positioning yourself as a subject matter expert.
About Our Guest: Kevin KermesKevin Kermes is the founder and a partner at Career Attraction, an executive talent agency. Since 2008, Kevin’s firm has helped open the doors for more than 15,000 professionals to find work they love and the compensation they deserve.
Resources in This Episode- Want to know if an employer welcomes older workers? Check out Retirement Jobs Employer Reviews.
- How can you use internal connections in a hiring process that’s being managed by an outside agency? Listener Ginny McDonnell asks and we answer.
- Kevin Kermes on LinkedIn
- Overcome Age Discrimination: The Biggest Missed Opportunity for Experts and Seasoned Professionals
- The Career Upgrade Roadmap: 90 Days to a Better Job and a Better Life
- Find Your Dream Job Listener Survey (Open through February 28, 2018!)
- Land Your Dream Job Anywhere
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