Pam Copeland
This book will help you develop a plan, make looking for a job a full time job and how to create a resume and cover letter that will get noticed. It will also give you great tips on how to use networking to your advantage, how to sign up for unemployment benefits and what to do if you are denied. Maybe you want to try employment agencies for a temporary position, how to utilize newspapers and the Internet, different stategies to try and how to prepare for the all important job interview.
Baby Boomers are experienced, dedicated, loyal people and they need all the help they can get to get hired!
This book covers everything you need to know to get a new job. It even has places for notations to help you track your progress while you are searching for that new job.
The author found herself out of a job at an age where she should have had 20 years of loyal service at a company and a comfy nest egg for retirement. Not only was she a displaced worker but she was a displaced Baby Boomer with no idea how to go about looking for a new job. She also knew that she would be competing against a much younger generation. A well-educated generation that is highly versed in the art of interviewing (they are now taught in high school what special buzz words to use!) and every company is excited about what these younger go-getters will bring to their table.
Information was everywhere but there wasn't one source where you could find everything you needed to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps and get back on that horse". That is where this book fills the gap.
The author took her own advice and landed a position that would showcase her vast work experience and prove that Baby Boomers with our great work ethics were still important to companies willing to take a chance on the older work force.
Chapter One- THE HEAVE-HO
I'm calling this chapter by exactly how you are probably feeling right now and that is that you got the old heave-ho!. Whether you were laid off with a group of people or let go individually, the feeling you are experiencing is a perfectly normal feeling but it isn't a good feeling. You feel like you have no self worth, like you've done something terrible and that you are a BAD PERSON. Don't beat yourself up! You are a "good" person and you will bounce back. You have much to offer a company and think of this little hiccup in your life as one door closing so another door will open. Every business is different and what seems unpopular or unnecessary to one boss may be considered a real asset to another. The lack of confidence that you are feeling right now will pass. When you have finished reading this workbook, you will look back on this first phase and realize how far you have come and how much you have accomplished. I promise!
