Posted on 08/30/2014 10:33:11 AM PDT by chrisser
Yes there are older people at companies, but they normally aren’t searching for jobs. Young people are easier to train and take less salary to hire. Not many companies want to hire someone who is going to be difficult to train and don’t want to work for a much younger supervisor. That’s the way it is.
That may be, in some cases. Maybe the types of jobs I’m thinking of don’t really require much “training,” just learning the landscape within which one uses their expertise. BTW, I take umbrage that anyone but 20-somethings are slow to learn! Some of us are highly intelligent. ;-)
I was only out of work once in my career for an extended period. It lasted fifteen months and I was one whipped dog by the end of it
Not as long as you. Pretty sure my age (59) had a lot to do with it.
I got bad knees, Afib. diverticulitis, High blood pressure. Otherwise, healthy. You can laugh now.
But I have brain sharper than a razor.
Understand, but I’m speaking of totally unsolicited nibbles from my LinkedIn. I say nibbles ‘cause I never pursued them to know if they could have resulted in actual offers.
So? Tell them I’m ain’t gonna stand, don’t piss me off and (I don’t know what vericulitus is) so give me a job and quit bitchin’. You can do that, right?
Well, if you are a senior systems admin wth VM5.5 and either EMC or HP storage experience, you can work for me at 90-100k per year in San Antonio.
If you can get clearance, the Defense Health Agency is hiring systems engineers if they know JAD, Citrix and Desktop.
Or you can work for a VAR. they are dying for qualified admins. Especially if they have server/storage experience.
No one wants to read more than a two page resume. Use your local address...but be ready to interview tomorrow if they ask you to.
Change your short introduction to fit the job you are applying for.
Don’t write a cover letter... no one reads them.
Demonstrate that you understand how IT fits into the overall profitability and goals of the company.
Be prepared to take a pay cut in a smaller market.
Research the owners / and or department heads of the companies you want to approach... find them on LinkedIn and approach them directly...ask them to put you in touch with the person that handles your position at the company...when they tell you that they don’t currently have someone in that position, forward them your shortened resume and ask for an interview.
Don’t send your resume to HR... you will only confuse them.
I owned a recruiting company for 10 years and I can tell you that this will work if you keep at it and don’t give up.
I never mentioned my medical history to my prospective employers.
If you read back On some of my previous posts on this thread you will notice that I had sent out over 500 resumes and applications, most without a response.
I hope your reply to me needed a /sarc tag.
And it's diverticutious
you can still make contact with people on Linkedin without your employer seeing it.
I like your plan.
Just out of curiosity, is there some sort of recruiter directory anywhere or industry group? I wouldn’t mind using one if I could find one that covers the territory (Parkersburg may be small, but there are still a fair amount of businesses there, especially when you include Marietta OH). Would certainly make things easier for me.
It was somewhat the same with me. I was 54-55 when I went through it a little over ten years ago.
Getting ready to retire now, but it will be modest compared to what it might have been if I hadn’t lost that time. I am still very blest. I know that if I just keep working I will regret it. I am in construction and that is a young man’s game in the management side.
Blessed or best. I think you probably have both.
I am a HS math teacher and had five inquiries in the last month. People are always writing me.
You could probably pass the state math/tech exams and find work soon after on an intern credential, if you like kids and /or are desperate. There is an extreme shortage of math and science and tech teachers. It might be a pay cut but all the other benefits are better.
I found my last two most profitable clients ever through their CraigList postings. Both were company owners who were close to my own age and had previous bad experiences with much younger workers. They simply did not understand them or know how to manage them properly. Not that I was going to criticize them or anything.
Sometimes age discrimination can work in your favor.
My RFP resume cuts off at the ten-year mark with a general summary. I do not list the year of my college graduation.
Responses to companies with an ATS are a complete waste of time. The jobs I have worked on have almost always started from direct contact with a hiring manager.
Don’t you need at least some education credentials to teach? To be honest, I’ve never really looked into it. I did well with algebra, geometry, trig and precalc. For some reason, I couldn’t get full-blown engineering-level calculus, but if I had, I’d be a mechanical engineer instead of a sysadmin.
I can take a pretty sizeable pay cut - I expect to just because of the smaller market.
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