Action Steps For Over-40 Careers

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Inertia is your enemy.

If you think that things are just going to keep going and going, without challenges or interruptions, you’re living in a different era. At the top of that list is the transformation of the job search marketplace. If you’re an older professional, I don’t have to tell you that the entire process of finding a job is broken.

How ironic: just at the moment when you are at your peak, when you know more than ever, and have the experience to get things done better than anyone, you find yourself shut out of the job market. On Orlando Haynes’ “CareerTALKS” podcast, we talk about these challenges, not from a victim POV, but from an action-oriented POV.

We list the top steps and strategies that older professionals (and all job seekers) must adopt in order to keep working in today’s economy. We may be older, but we still have agency.

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John Tarnoff is an executive and career transition coach, speaker, and author who supports mid and late-career professionals in defining, planning, and achieving more meaningful and sustainable careers.

Fired 39% during his 35 years as a film producer, studio executive and tech entrepreneur, he learned how to turn setbacks into successes in a volatile business. He reinvented his own career at 50, earning a master’s degree in counseling psychology to share his career lessons with others going through similar challenges.

Since leaving entertainment in 2010, John has coached individuals, groups, and led career workshops for university alumni, including for UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Corporate coaching clients have included Bank of America, Bridgewater Assoc., Levi-Strauss, Softbank, TD Ameritrade, and Thrive Global.

He is the author of the best-selling Boomer Reinvention: How to Create your Dream Career Over 50 and has been named a Top Influencer in Aging by PBS/NextAvenue.

 

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