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Over–40 Job Search Guide
Ten Strategies for Making Age and Advantage in Your Career
Introduction
Chapter 1: Play It on Your Own Terms
Explore your career options and develop your ideal career.
Chapter 2: Play to Your Strong Suit
Identify and promote your age advantages.
Chapter 3: Discover What's Hot and What's Not
Finding careers that are healthy, hiring, and age-diverse.
Chapter 4: Acquire Inexpensive Skill and Credential Updates
Revive a current or past career or jump-start a new one.
Chapter 5: Create a Wow! Ageless Resume
Emphasize your experience, strengths, and benefits to the buyer.
Chapter 6: Find Age-Diverse Job Opportunities
Strategic searches off and online.
Chapter 7: Achieve Memorable First Impressions
Avoid the most common interview and networking mistakes.
Chapter 8: Ace Tough Interview Questions
Avoid discrimination and negotiate your best offer.
Chapter 9: Explore the Road Less Traveled
Entrepreneurial ventures and self-employment.
Chapter 10: Too Young to Quit Working
Careers for post retirement years.
Epilogue: Ongoing Career Management
Easing the financial drain of career search and the emotional
roller coaster of career management.
Appendix: Resources: Books, Web sites, and Associations
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