Are you over the age of 50 and looking for a new job? Have you discovered that the process of job-seeking is much more difficult than you had expected? Is it all too easy to make excuses: to say, for example, that you are too old to learn new things or too frustrated to show your best self?
No excuse is acceptable when you are searching for a new job. You are a successful, special person, and you can succeed in anything you want! Those who say I cant and those who say I can are both telling the truth. So, which one are you? Are you of the optimistic bunch who can take a challenge and turn it around? Or are you a member of the pessimistic group who give up easily at the slightest obstacle or barrier? The job market has changed dramatically in recent years, and now were in a survival-of-the-fittest mode.
Only the best shall be successful in achieving their job goals. But what do we mean by best? It is critical to note that reaching a job goal usually has nothing to do with skills, experiences or attributes (though these are essential)in fact, the final deciding factors are personality and attitude.
Start off by sitting yourself down, staring intently into the...