The Seven Deadly Sins of Job Hunting
Elizabeth Pope has a great piece on AARP.org on how to avoid very easily made mistakes when searching for work. As we already know, too many older Americans are out of work and desperately seeking employment during these tough times, but are also susceptible to making simple errors that can cost them a new job. A new study by the MetLife Mature Market Institute says so:
"'The harsh truth is, nobody cares about your experience,' says workplace expert David DeLong, author of the report 'Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?' 'In a performance-driven marketplace, you have to frame your experience and show how you can solve a company's problems. You can't expect the potential employer to figure that out.'
The study, released Oct. 13, also found that older job seekers routinely overestimate their computer skills, fail to seek extra training, and may feel ambivalent about returning to work in spite of financial need. If potential employers sense that ambivalence in an interview, it can kill any chances of a hire."
Read up and learn how to avoid this from happening!
Comments
Karen says:
I was quite upset to see that you are backing the current health care reform.
Although my husband and I have been AARP members for 10+ years, we will be discontinuing our membership with your organization due to this decision you have made.
We feel that you are NOT considering the best care of your members.
I also know that you could care less that we are dropping our membership. I did notice that on your own web site your poll shows 60+ are against Obama and his policies.
11/05/09 7:27 AM
Linda Brandenburger says:
Thank you AARP very much for supporting this legislation! I know that your members are pretty evenly divided on this, and you are very brave to stand up and do the right thing! It says a lot about your organization. I'm a new member, but very proud to be one!
11/05/09 1:25 PM
Bill Sampson says:
I am terribly depressed by the polarization in our country - the revival of bitter prejudice and hate that has made it to our airwaves. The motto of our great country is "e pluribus unum" - "Out of many, one"
I am ashamed that it is my generation (I'm 66) that seems to be falling for the nasty rhetoric. I sincerely believe that AARP and the AMA do know what's right - not the corporations. We've given too much over to corporations - they have become our governors - not "We the people."
G-d have mercy on us and restore us to the great nation we were at the end of WWII. Remember, it was Eisenhower that warned us of the dangers of the military-industrial complex that we see controlling more of government spending to arm the world rather than to make peace and care for our citizens at home.
And he said, in closing,
To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:
"We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
11/07/09 12:23 PM