Your relatively brief period of unemployment has been an eternity. After an extensive and significant career, you became a statistic: an older worker displaced as a result of this latest and deepest recession. The art of mastering the online job search (“Old dog learns new trick”), the debilitating process of interviewing, and the resultant rejections […]
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Career Transitions: “I Took Care of My Elderly Parents”
In the words of Shirley MacLaine, “Perception is everything.” Â To aging parents whose health is failing, a child who chooses career over family can be perceived as uncaring. Â To a potential employer seeking an applicant with a consistent work history, a candidate who interrupts his/her career to care for loved ones can appear out of […]