How to Find a Job After 50: From Part-Time to Full-Time, from Career Moves to New Careers

This job search guide offers advice useful to all prospective employees, covering definition of goals, assessment of strengths, and surviving the interview process. But Betsy Cummings goes further, offering a wealth of practical advice specific to older job seekers, such as rewriting risumis, acquiring new skills, and seeking out employers who are senior-worker-friendly. She includes a helpful selection of online sources and lists of growth industries, and offers advice on specific issues such as starting a new business and returning to the workforce after childrearing. The author is in the vanguard, as many employers are acknowledging that the older worker can be a terrific job candidate: focused, disciplined and experienced, with good reading, writing, and interpersonal skills. Apprentices need not apply! Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.