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Job Searching for the Mature Worker
Not the usual motivational fluff.
Pragmatic, actionable advice -- with forthright questions from
live audience.
Job Searching for the Mature Worker -- HPAA video
Watch
video on YouTube
Speaker: Pat Richards, from nonprofit NOVA Workforce
Services, Sunnyvale, California.
Pragmatic, actionable advice:
- Changes since you last looked for a job.
- Developing your job search plan.
- Industries where age matters less.
- Age-neutral résumés.
- How to use your network.
- Local federally-funded job centers nationwide.
Questions and discussion:
- Handling a career break.
- "Career marketing" scams.
- How to explore the changes in your field at low cost.
- Certificates.
- Degree completion.
- Volunteering as a way to learn new skills.
- More...
"The presentation was excellent."
Watch
video
on YouTube (50 minutes; YouTube optimizes video
quality for your connection speed.)
Links mentioned in the video:
▪ The video refers to the "PSR
Methodology" -- Problem, Solution, Results
-- to strengthen how you describe your experience.
▪ Online Job Search Plan. Walks you through the four major
stages -- with examples, tools, and short videos. From NOVA:
My Plan.
▪ There are 3,000 non-profit federally-funded Job Centers
nationwide -- providing job-search assistance, skills
development, and career counseling:
Job Center Locator.
▪ Advice from HPAA members on
job hunting -- inside or outside HP.
For additional career and job information:
Professional networking, LinkedIn, "What I wish I had known before I
left," advice and info on returning, employment and salary
verification, HPAA job posts, and more -- see the main HPAA
page on Career and Job Issues.
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Checklist" immediately. It has advice and mutual help --
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or not: advice
and information from HPInc and HPE alumni on transition
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