When I was downsized last December, I knew exactly where to look. I knew who to talk to, I knew who to solicit advice from and I knew what I wanted to do.
And it still took two months and a lot of luck to find a gig. What if my job search was for something that DIDN’T relate to the internet as much as mine does? What if I was an instructor, a teacher for safety products or another profession B2B profession that REQUIRED on-site time, dealt with a group that hadn’t yet mastered technology or who just didn’t care? My dad is going through this. My hard working, never quit and never give up dad has found himself on the wrong of a company downsizing and I’m having trouble figuring out how to aid him in his job search. Does he make YouTube videos of what he can do? Start a blog? Join Twitter? He’s a safety product representative, an industry I know nothing about. So, what would you do? What advice would you give a baby boomer with average tech skills and lots of free time? How does he market himself?Posted via email from Tyler says…
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Well, the first question would be: does he still want to do that? Isn’t there something else that he would like to try now? Seems like the perfect moment…
Tyler,
Tell your Dad to get a LinkedIn profile to start. Fill it out 100%. Look for groups that are associated with what he does and his alumni. Join these groups. Next search jobs use the advance search option.
Compnaies want you to have a web presence so he needs to go to the Abswer section of LinkedIn and check all the categories. Find the ones whewre he can give great answers. When the subject matter is searched on google his answer will appear in the list. I am a knowledge expert on LinkedIn for job search. I also have a blog on WordPress “Job hunting from the seekers perspective”.
Twitter has a great job search tool called TwitterMyJobs so he will need a Twitter account and then add this application.
This should get him started. A good web page will also help him.
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