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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.
Know someone who is leaving HP or HPE? They should use the
HP Alumni Association's "ASAP
Checklist" immediately. Continually-updated member
advice on what to do
before losing access to company systems -- and in the
following few weeks.
ASAP Checklist
(HPAA membership not required.)
Currently at HP or HPE? Whether you expect to leave HP soon
or not: advice
and information from HP and HPE alumni on transition
planning; stock purchase cost basis; networking; "What I
wish I had known before I left" -- and more. (HPAA
membership not required.)
Gone from HP or HPE? The nationwide HPAA has several
moderated, email-based
discussion forums. HPAA Benefits covers topics such as COBRA and
retiree health benefits, annual enrollment, and transition to
Medicare. HPAA Finance deals with employee stock, 401(k),
pensions, and other personal finance issues from an ex-HP/HPE
perspective. HPAA TechTalk members work together on
HP/HPE-related personal technology
questions.
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