Hear about effective job search strategies from older workers from career counselor John Coffey.
Coffey, age 70, speaks from personal—as well as professional—experience.
Tag: career advice
Mentoring makes a difference
Is the impulse to help others an innate human trait?
Helping others through mentoring is beneficial for both mentors and mentees, and has been around as long as human relationships have existed.
Over 50 and overqualified?
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Posted in Businesses and employers, Career changers, Job seekers, Older workers, Uncategorized
The job market is improving for older workers, but many still deal with the concern that they may appear overqualified to a prospective employer.
Mount a defensive against this assumption by putting yourself in the employer’s shoes.
Good work for Labor Day
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Posted in Career changers, Entry-level workers, Job seekers, Older workers, Students, Uncategorized
Tagged with: career advice
Tee up summer goal setting
As the year approaches its halfway mark, it’s a great time to check in on your goals for 2017.
Even if New Year’s optimism has given way to discouragement or indifference, there is plenty of time left to work on building a platform for what you want to do next.
Need a summer internship? Forward, March!
If you’re hoping to work in an internship this summer, it’s time to rev up your internship research and application efforts.
Career resources for youth: how to get started
Information overload is one of the biggest downsides of the information age: sometimes it seems like there are so many available resources, data, information, and advice, it can be hard to know where to get started. CareerOneStop’s GetMyFuture website for young…
New Year goal #1: Join a professional association
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Posted in Career changers, Career counselors, Entry-level workers, Job seekers, Students, Uncategorized
Make 2017 the year you take a step that could be very good for your job search, and probably even better for your long term career success: join a professional association.
Find the certifications employers value the most
Promising careers within reach
What kind of job could you get that pays well, but won’t take much extra training? A new study by Mathematica Policy Research just made the answer easier to find.