‘If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.’ – Thomas Jefferson This 18th century advice is not out of place in the 21st century for the thousands of people over 50 who are desperately sending out CVs and getting nowhere. To be fair; this… [Read More]
Where are the flippin’ jobs for 50+?
The jobs are there, but the truth is that 99% of your efforts may be misdirected. This used to be the success rate of job hunting methods (roughly): 10% sending CVs to advertised jobs or through employment agencies 25% approaching employers directly 50% networking 15% a combination of the above No one has done research… [Read More]
Job-hunting Programme
My aim is to get you into a job as quickly as possible! How does two weeks sound? That is how quickly one of my clients did it! You know that sending gazillions of CVs into cyberspace does not work. And you know that all the things you remember about job-hunting are not working, either. In short, this a different planet for… [Read More]
Scared of job-hunting? Bash down that wall!
It is easy to construct a whole wall out of reasons not to job-hunt. Once we start looking for negatives, we become masters in the craft of obscuring the future. We can find reason after reason, laying each one like a brick on top the first, as though we have never heard of windows or doors. That is not… [Read More]
