Older Workers: Tips for using your age to your advantage!

Embrace your life experiences:  You’ve experienced great triumphs, successes and failures throughout your life; use these experiences to your benefit when job searching and interviewing!  Great success is practiced and built on learning from bad experiences.  Think about lessons learned and how you excelled in experiences that were trying.

Update your look:  You don’t have to entirely reinvent your personal style; but you want to make sure that you look is not outdated!  Get feedback from friends about your current look and what you can do to update it.  Try reading business magazines geared for your age group and look for styles that you would be comfortable with.  A new hairstyle, some new clothes, and simple make-up application can go a long way!

Regain confidence:  Be confident in your abilities and let that confidence shine during your interview; even if you are interviewing with someone who is younger than you.  Holding a grudge about a generation younger than yours will not get you very far.  Remember, you had to start somewhere too.  Your life lessons, extensive work experience and knowledge will no doubt benefit the employer.  Show them what you've got!

Get with the times:  In today’s world of technology, there are many skills that you can be updating to increase your employability!  Try taking an online or classroom course to update your computer skills, learn about social media and networking, read articles relating to the industry that you are in and learn about any changes that you could be making.

~Sunny & Sassy