![]() ![]() READ MORE: How Changing Jobs Can Damage Your Employment Future 8) Stability factor: 7) Be honest about your plans:Īre you hoping this is your last job before retiring? Do you want to get at least 10 years of experience? Would you like to grow with the company as long as possible? ![]() Compared to some of the newbies entering the job market, it will be refreshing. Just be you – be proud of your maturity and place in life. Wear fashionable clothes, current hair cuts and styles and don’t stay in a time warp with appearance, no matter how much you loved it. Of course, to compete with the brainy college graduates, us older folk need to adhere to a few rules. There are plenty of companies and business owners who actually prefer employees who have some savvy about life under their belt instead of just fresh from college. One of the best things an applicant over 45 can offer is experience and maturity. Now, why was it the right fit? Years of experience, that’s what. When it’s the right fit, everything goes smoothly, no matter what age you are. After I went home to wait, the job offer call came before business hours were over. I borrowed someone’s fax machine and faxed my resume in the morning I got a call for an interview within an hour I had my interview that afternoon with personnel, and only just caught my future boss by minutes before he would have left the building. I saw the ad for an administrative assistant to the Manager of Information Services (MIS) and VP at the headquarters of one of the classiest retail chains in the United States (Crate & Barrel). I picked up the want ads as this was 1997 and I didn’t own a personal computer yet. I had been working two jobs six days a week and having a hard time meeting expenses, so I moved back to where I had grown up Chicago land. The day I was hired was incredible: I had just returned to the Midwest from Arizona, because the job market there was horrible. Before I retired, I had the best seven years of my career and was hired at the ripe old age of 57! My boss did not give my age more than a passing glance he was thrilled to find someone with all the right qualifications for the job, PLUS maturity and someone he knew wanted stability and wouldn’t bolt the following year looking for more money. ![]()
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