5 Reasons You Cant Find A Good Job After Age 50

5 Reasons You Cant Find A Good Job After Age 505 Reasons You Cant Find A Good Job After Age 50When you know you have the experience, apply online to multiple job boards, and actively look for work for months, nothing is worse than the weight of frustration and discouragement on your shoulders. Its like, I cannot believe this is SO difficult, especially with all the experience that I haveIve been guiding candidates to land the jobs they want and deserve since 1998. The single biggest complaint I hear from candidates when they initially come to me is that they can barely get a response to all those resumes theyve put out there, and it just doesnt make sense why.However, Ive been able to get these candidates to identify positions (that 1,000 other people werent going for) network correctly (translation non-desperate / non-sleazy), get their foot in the door, advance through the 1st, 2nd and 3rd interviews, and get hired at the salary level they actually deserve.Heres the crux of the iss ueThe foundation lies in how you articulate who you are, what you do, and the value you bring to a particular employer at this particular moment in time. So, if you need to find a good job past age 50, let me share with you what NOT to do, because chances are that identifying simple mistakes like these, then correcting them, will seriously increase your response rateYoure flying down the job board superhighway. Remember when they used to call the netz the information superhighway? Please go back and re-read that question. Note the past tense thats because no ones actually said that since the 90sStop partying like its 1999. The job boards just do not offer up what they used to. When they first emerged on the scene, you graduated from the newspaper classifieds to Monster and CareerBuilder, and you actually accomplished something. It was great Jobs were practically sitting there at the end of your fingertips.But the reality is the glory days are over. sorrynotsorry Now is the time to use the job boards strategically. Instead of hitting the apply and submit buttons a couple hundred times a week, use the job boards to get data so you know which organizations are hiring, and then take the proper action. This leads me toYou heard its not what you know its who you know. But you dont know anybody at the employer whos hiring. Therefore, in your mind, the train just comes to a screeching halt. Lets get those wheels turning again.In job search today, its not necessary to know people in person physically on earth. So, get over your desire to keep your LinkedIn profile limited. I actually wonder why people take pride in telling me they only network with people they really know. Perhaps theyre trying to communicate that they have such a high level of integrity okay, if you say so.But while you have so much integrity in front of the 100-person ONLINE network you keep so close to your vest, another candidate with probably not even as much experience as you is busy making st rategic, relevant connections with employers in the industries they want and the location where they live. That leads me toYou are targeting anything and everything. I know you want to cast a wider net. I know that seems like it would make sense. But it just doesnt. What takes time and energy in job search is applying hither and yon all over the place, because you figure you can adapt to practically anything. No. The person reading your resume is not looking for a shapeshifter. Hes looking for specific experience and quantifiable achievements in the core area of expertise the organization needs.Funnel your energy a different way. Instead of going wide, go deep into the specific employers whose organizations you like, where your research tells you your skills would genuinely contribute to what those companies do. Where you focus, you will find what you want. That makes me think ofYou keep saying all you need to do is get your foot in the door. Youre not looking to scratch the surface , have a telephone interview, and perhaps a 1st interview. Time and again, struggling candidates tell me they dont see why, despite their interview going well, they still cant seem to get a call back.I would suggest that your idea of what went well is different from theirs. Did you go in there talking about how you problem solve in order to get the job done? Really? What does that even mean? Youll deliver far greater impact every single time if you do 2 things actively LISTEN, then map your very SPECIFIC achievements to what the interviewer is looking for in the candidate who will ultimately fill the role.After a series of failures, you get overwhelmed with discouragement. This is understandable. Feel that for some defined amount of time. Then put a period. If it sets into your mind that all employers are just unfair to candidates in their 50s, or youre going to keep on hearing youre overqualified, then youre going to stop moving forward, because thoughts like that come out in your tone of voice and demeanor. Your family knows it. So do your friends. So do the people you dont even feel like networking with.You can run this (regular people do all the time so you can too)Move out of the funk by taking control of something bite-sized, and let each small success build. Identify another company youd like to work for. Use LinkedIn advanced search to connect with a relevant, new person. Circle back to someone who may have told you no before the answer could be different this time.If youre looking for more job search ideas that you can use to make headway on jobs that match what you want, increase your number of calls back, and hear offers with salary levels that you need, join us for 5 Secrets Smart Jobseekers Age 50+ Know That Make The Job Search EASY