Sital Ruparelia

The media often paints a gloomy picture of the prospects for people looking for a new job in their 50s.

But if that’s you, or someone you know, remember that being in your 50s and out of work is not the end of the world. Rather than being “Finished At Fifty”, this is just a new beginning in your life and career.

People can, and do, get new jobs after 50. Here are ten tips to help.

1. Stop thinking and talking about your age

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Want To Accelerate Your Job Search Before The Summer Break…?

So you’ve been out of the job market due to redundancy, job loss or personal circumstances.

It’s all very legitimate but that’s not the way some employers and interviewers see it.

Here are 5 steps to help you not only handle conversations about your gap  – but in fact turn the gap into a positive differentiator which helps you stand out from crowd.

1. Don’t be defensive

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Searching for new jobs, projects or clients?
- You need options

Many job seekers and self employed professionals take their foot off the gas once they’ve a couple of strong opportunities in the pipeline. Invariably these opportunities don’t always convert and so they’re left with an empty pipeline and an uphill struggle because they haven’t enough irons in the fire.

Or if an opportunity does convert, they have no leverage in negotiations because they’ve no other options available.

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“Life is a series of mountains, valleys and missiles”

This is a lesson I learned from my first Business Coach, Chris Barrow

To paraphrase Chris:

Mountains: Are the moments when we feel on top of the world.  When everything is going really well.

- When things are good, the key is to enjoy and appreciate the things that are going well instead of obsessing about all the things that aren’t quite yet perfect.
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Sometimes you need to shut one door before new ones begin to open up to you.

Which means:

- You need to decide you’re giving up on project or business venture before ideas for a new venture show up.

- You need to make a firm decision to move on from an old job or career for new opportunities and ideas to show up.

- You need make a decision to change City or Country before new options come up and chance conversations come your way to create opportunities.

Intuitively we all know this to be true don’t we?

But it feels scary.

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The death and destruction caused by last week’s second earthquake in New Zealand was far worse than the first earthquake a month ago.

The pain and problems caused by such ‘aftershocks’ can effect people in a much more profound way in other aspects of life and business too:

At an Economic Level

- The economic aftershocks felt months after the financial crisis and recession are, for some people, much more painful than the shock of the crisis. (e.g. high unemployment, cuts in government spending and higher taxes)

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Regardless of how talented you are, how smart you are and how committed you are, if I don’t LIKE you, there’s a good chance that:

- I won’t buy from you

- I won’t refer you

- I won’t hire you

- I won’t promote you

- I won’t think twice about making you redundant when we’re restructuring

- I won’t totally support you as my boss

- I won’t be influenced by your ideas or strategies as your customer or internal stakeholder

Is this fair? – No

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The Zen Guide To Job Searching

Many people equate “exercising and getting fit”  with going to the gym and pounding on a treadmill.

But running at the gym is just one way of getting fit.  The most effective way to get fit (and stay fit) is to choose 1 or 2 activities which you enjoy and find effortless (be it running, swimming, football, gym-work or whatever) – and then to do them consistently.

The same applies to successful networking.

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