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OFFICE HOURS: Overcoming Ageism in the Job Search
Helen Sanchez
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the...
How is AGEISM affecting your future and aspirations? Come learn effective strategies and tools that you can use during interviews and conversations with hiring managers to stop letting your years of experience prevent you from getting that job.
We’ll be joined by Helen Sanchez, the founder of Tanagui, for a 30-minute Office Hours session. With 20+ years of experience in recruiting, Helen has advice on how to best present yourself and spin your experience when applying for a new job. You’ll leave this session with new approaches for tackling those tricky interview questions, and the confidence to use them in your next interview!
Meet The Speaker
Helen Sanchez
Founder of Tanagui Career Consultants
Helen’s background includes over twenty years working in recruiting, education in Women and Gender Studies, as well as African American Studies. She is the founder of Tanagui Career Consultants, whose primary focus is to offer services that result in breakthrough resumes and interview mastery for women over 40.
Q&A
Q&A guidelines-
It is hard to hide experience - but how do you not make it sound like it was a million years ago?
Posted on 2021-06-22 -
I am 50+ and trying to relaunch career after a 10 year break following a layoff. How do I get employers (and applicant tracking systems) to see past the break and focus on my previous 20 year work...
Posted on 2021-06-22 -
In the tech sector, millennials appear to be hired for exec roles pushing out generation X from jobs. What can we do about this? Ageism is real. Generation X workers need to apply to companies...
Posted on 2021-06-21 -
What is being done at the HR / recruiting level to combat ageism in hiring?
Posted on 2021-06-21 -
Online applications often will not allow you to bypass your graduation dates. Isn't this just a way to find out how old you are, and is that illegal?
Posted on 2021-06-21 -
How does an unemployed 52 year old female with an MBA compete with Millennials who are also looking for jobs (Post Covid) and eliminate being told she is overqualified, especially when she needs a job?
Posted on 2021-06-21 -
If companies are most interested in my skills and experience, why are the dates of employment & education required in their online forms? It seems like I'm getting set up for ageism.
Posted on 2021-06-20 -
I am most interested in how to overcome my anxiety felt over my age throughout the interview process. Also, how to highlight my decades of transferable skills as I pursue a new career in tech.
Posted on 2021-06-20 -
Best way to market all your transferrable skills related to the role without giving away your age. How to network with those close to half your age to obtain a response? IAre there other ways to...
Posted on 2021-06-17 -
How do I land a job at 52?
Posted on 2021-06-09 -
1) How do I maneuver diplomatically around the sometimes-still-asked question "When did you graduate?" (which is sometimes the roundabout way to gauge age ....) 2) What's an effective way to...
Posted on 2021-06-03 -
How do I answer interview questions without indicating my age but showing my wealth of experience.
Posted on 2021-05-26 -
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Posted on 2021-05-25
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