3 Ways To Get Hired Faster At Age 50+ (Part I)

3 Ways To Get Hired Faster At Age 50+ (Part I)3 Ways To Get Hired Faster At Age 50+ (Part I)US government figures as of June 2019 say the average length of unemployment is more than 22 weeks. And your job search is likely to take 20% longer than that if youre near, at, or over age 50.Although age discrimination is real and it happens every day, whats just as real is that people over 50 are getting hired every day. If some factors are working against you in your job search, lets talk about taking control of the elements you can, so you can land the job you really want that much faster. Part 1 of this series will center on knowing whos hiring in the 1st place.ItPays To KnowI just had a candidate tell me, Jewel, on Sunday afternoon I came home and sat down with my computer to apply online. I applied for 250 jobs on Indeed. Do you know how many I had heard from by the end of the week? Zero.And guess what? I was not surprised to hear this story. While it may seem like youre conducting a l ot of activity by throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks, and it may seems like youre covering a lot of ground, all youre really doing is wasting time thats what ends up costing you.What takes more time up front, but what pays off big in the end, is investing the time into learning what organizations are innovating, growing, and hiring. Make it a best practice to learn and act on this information, and you wont be throwing spaghetti anymore. Rather, youll be aiming the dart exactly at the bullseye.TheInternet Makes It Easy For YouExpand your thinking beyond the Internet job boards, because if you stop there, youll be among the ranks of those who take 6 month to land a job. The Internet is available to you as a research tool, so put on your thinking cap.One resource to take advantage of is Monster.com. (Wait a minute didnt she just say go beyond the job boards? Yes. But Monster offers a list of 100 companies hiring the most this week, and they update the list every mo nth. Thats just one example of how the Internet curates this information for you.ThinkEven Deeper Than ThatOnce you see a company is hiring, think about other companies in that same sector. If one is growing, the others are likely to be growing as well. For example, if Salesforce.com is hiring, check out their competitors and others who are in the SaaS space. That thought process can have you build a short list that includes Adobe, Slack, MailChimp, Shopify, SurveyMonkey, MathWorks, and HubSpot.These companies may be advertising or not it doesnt matter. If the sector is growing, theyre hiring thats called the hidden job market.You have to approach these companies the right way. Find out the exact language to use in our free webinar, How To Get Hired In Half The Time. Its all laid out for you take your screenshots, copy it down, and use it so you can start to get the responses you need in as little as 24-48 hours. Register here today to learn exactly how to do this.