With the slowing economy and biases against older workers, it can be frustrating and scary to find yourself looking for a new job in your 50s. If it's been a few years since you conducted a job search, your job search skills are probably out of date.
In this article, we look at the realities of the employment environment for workers in their 50s, as well as provide a number of tips for those searching for that new job.
Revise Your Networking Plan To Fit Your Midlife Reality And Goals
Networking is like insurance. It isn't until you really need it to find a new job, for example, that you see how important it is to keep it up to date and in step with your goals. Hitting one's 40s and 50s is when we can begin feeling restless personally and professionally. Career and life may be in need of some re-invigorating. What does that mean for our networking strategy?
Here, Marny Lifshen, an expert and author on women's networking, offers some tips on how to breathe new life into your network.
Diversity on the job is always challenging to manage. Now more than ever, since for the first time in history, we have four generations in the workplace at the same time. For women in mid-life who want to have an edge on the job, it means being smart about how to skillfully manage these oft-perplexing generational differences--both up and down.
Jody Patterson is a learning and development professional responsible for helping her colleagues develop their diversity management skills. You'll find her tips useful at work, and even at home for those rare times when you find your teenagers incomprehensible.
With the slowing economy and biases against older workers, it can be frustrating and scary to find yourself looking for a new job in your 50s. If it's been a few years since you conducted a job search, your job search skills are probably out of date.
Networking is like insurance. It isn't until you really need it to find a new job, for example, that you see how important it is to keep it up to date and in step with your goals. Hitting one's 40s and 50s is when we can begin feeling restless personally and professionally. Career and life may be in need of some re-invigorating. What does that mean for our networking strategy?
Diversity on the job is always challenging to manage. Now more than ever, since for the first time in history, we have four generations in the workplace at the same time. For women in mid-life who want to have an edge on the job, it means being smart about how to skillfully manage these oft-perplexing generational differences--both up and down. .jpg)
