Using Age to Your Advantage.

FountainBlue's March 22 Transitions event was on the topic of Using Age to Your Advantage.

Your age is one of your most powerful advantages in your job search ... if you have the right attitude and strategy to overcome the subtle and not so subtle age bias that exists in every interview.

For this FountainBlue Connections event, America's leading professional career coaches, Jean Erickson Walker, shares her very practical and expert advice on landing that great job you really want ... at any age. Jean Erickson provided us with a step-by-step guide on how to turn your age and experience into must-haves for any potential employer. We shared our stories and challenges around 'the age question' and participated in an engaging discussion. Below is advice for using age to your advantage:

• Have a positive attitude about your age, no more derogatory remarks
• Position yourself as a trustworthy, experienced, competent executive with integrity, values, and competence who will make life better for the senior executives at an organization
• Talk about the big picture, don't talk about the smaller details you did in executing a project
• Sell your relationship skills, not necessarily your tactical and technical knowledge
• Find a job which sounds like it would be fun, exciting, rich and engaging learning and growing experience where you can make a real contribution

Jean's Top Ten things to consider in using age to your advantage:

• Understand the new world of work
• Become CEO of You, Inc.
• Remember your age IS an issue
• Stop looking for jobs and start looking for work that needs doing
• Do a thorough self assessment
• Take a strategic view of job listings
• Learn the career search process
• Focus on outcomes, create a defining statement
• Pick your battles, sell your greatest asset, wisdom
• Bring your friends to the party

For more information:
Contact Jean and inquire about her coaching services
Order her book
Read her articles