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“Make the most of your experience: How to land on your feet in today’s job market”

Filed under Diversity and Careers, Job Search Process, Resumes and Cover Letters
Posted by Libraries, March 20, 2006
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Carole Fleck, AARP Bulletin Online, January, 2006
http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourlife/older_workers.html

Advice for older job hunters includes concentrating the search on newer and smaller companies, “which tend to hire more mature workers.” Also, look at your resume: it “should always be focused on where you’re heading”, says Jan Cannon, “not a laundry list of where you’ve been.” Be aware that it will take time to find a new job – “it will take longer to land a job if you’re 55 or older – 26 weeks on average compared with 19 weeks for younger job seekers.”

See the Simmons Career Resource e-brary at http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/
career/careerchange.shtml for additional resources for returning to work or changing careers.

—Jennifer M. Lege