Manage Your Job Search

14 Just for People Over 50

I wish I could tell you age discrimination was a figment of your imagination. It’s not. It’s real. But you can manage some of the issues in age discrimination, if you are smart about your job search.

14.1 Networking for People Over 50

If you’re over the age of 50, you still want to be able to build your network. Even if you ignored your network until now, it’s just a little harder. This is really important if you have been, shall we say, a little geeky.

One of the things that some of us have done, over the course of our professional lives, especially if we’ve been technical professionals, is think we didn’t have to look for our jobs. Our jobs would come to us. And the more technical we’ve been, the less we always ...