Advice from career coaches and hiring managers
If you suddenly find yourself back in the job market after age 50, you might need to dust off your résumé and spruce it up for today's changing job market. Here are seven strategies older workers can use to get their résumé to the top of the stack, score an interview, and—yes—land a new job:
Play down your age. Age often brings wisdom, but wisdom can seem awfully expensive to a hiring manager. You don't have to include all of your achievements on your résumé. "You should consider not putting dates like graduation dates on your résumé," says Tom Musbach, senior editor of Yahoo! HotJobs. "You don't want to lie if asked, but on your résumé, you don't want to broadcast that you graduated in 1960." According to an October survey by Gray Hair Management, a career coaching and networking firm, 65 percent of senior-level executives age 40 or older say they've adjusted their résumé to downplay their age. Older workers need to appear up-to-date with the modern workforce. Be sure to list the work experiences most relevant to the description of the job you're applying for so that your résumé will turn up in job bank searches.
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