Got Hope Current and Future Job Prospects for 50-Plus Workers with Kathy Lansford [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Got Hope Current and Future Job Prospects for 50-Plus Workers with Kathy Lansford [Podcast] - Career Pivot Scene #126 â€" Marc Miller and profession mentor Kathy Lansford talk about the pursuit of employment for seniors Depiction: Following quite a long while of various vocation ways, Kathy out of the blue fell into something she wants to do â€" helping individuals secure positions. Kathy is an honor winning mentor, talented in the structure and introduction of classes and workshops that have helped a huge number of employment searchers secure fantastic profession openings. She is the maker and facilitator of Launch Pad Job Club, Austin's biggest not-for-profit systems administration and care group for work searchers, through which individuals are educated, inspired, and engaged through the pursuit of employment process. Key Takeaways: [1:44] Marc invites you to Episode 126 of the Repurpose Your Career web recording. CareerPivot.com presents to you this digital broadcast; it is one of the not many sites committed to those of us in the second 50% of life and our vocations. Pause for a minute to look at the blog and different assets conveyed to you, for nothing out of pocket. [2:12] If you are getting a charge out of this web recording, if you don't mind share it with other similarly invested spirits. Buy in on CareerPivot.com, iTunes, or any of the different applications that flexibly digital broadcasts. Offer it via web-based networking media or simply tell your neighbors, and associates, to support more individuals. Much obliged to you for extending the compass of this web recording! [2:37] Marc is recording this presentation on April 30. There were more than 8,000 downloads of the Repurpose Your Career digital recording in April. That is triple the quantity of downloads from April 2018. Much obliged to you! [2:54] Next week, Marc will talk with Andrew Scott, co-creator of The 100-Year Life: Living and Working during a time of Longevity. What will you do with such additional time? [3:08] This week, Marc is talking with Kathy Lansford, the organizer of Launch Pad Job Club, the first and one of the biggest activity clubs in Texas, established in 2001. They are examining current and future employment possibilities for 50+ laborers. Presently on to the digital recording… Download Link | iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast| Podbean | TuneIn | Overcast [3:27] Marc shares Kathy's profile and invites her to Repurpose Your Career. [4:32] Kathy was a pursuit of employment aptitudes coach for a long time at the Workforce Solutions office. After a break, she went to Austin Community College at the last part of an AARP award to help individuals more than 50 secure positions. After the award finished, ACC assumed control over the undertaking, growing the administrations to the general ACC populace, also. [5:29] Marc met Kathy in 2006 in the wake of leaving his showing work, when he engaged in Launch Pad Job Club. Soon thereafter, Marc joined the board. Kathy is a specialist on pursuit of employment for individuals more than 50. Marc presents the subject of the present scene: Got Hope? Current and Future Job Prospects for 50+ Workers. [6:17] Kathy depicts negative occupation patterns for those more than 50. Ageism is uncontrolled, particularly in an adolescent arranged city like Austin, where Kathy lives. The ranges of abilities of more seasoned specialists are not needed. Age separation is unlawful however age questions are frequently inquired. [9:03] Kathy goes to a gathering where individuals share their disappointment at having their age utilized against them in the pursuit of employment process before they can introduce their abilities. [9:37] Ten years prior, the Supreme Court settled on a choice that makes it harder to demonstrate age separation than for different types of segregation. [10:15] In the dotcom crash in 2001, in Austin, the main large cutback was at Dell. The laid-off specialists needed to sign waivers they would not sue for being laid off to get a severance bundle. [13:27] If an organization lays off uniformly over all age gatherings, and afterward enlists back just more youthful specialists, that is the premise of a claim. [13:40] Recently a separation suit was settled against Facebook for just indicating work postings to youngsters. Facebook advertisements permit an assortment of focusing on. Merchants can give an email list and ask Facebook to discover individuals who resemble these individuals. [15:29] A Bloomberg digital broadcast as of late expressed that for certain stages, as Facebook, a $3 billion fine is irrelevant. They will continue doing what they do. [15:59] Application following frameworks can screen for a considerable length of time of understanding to target age ranges. The more established activity searcher never realizes that their resume is never observed. [16:54] Familiar with computerized talk and advanced local are codes for youthful. [17:41] Kathy brings up territories of expectation. Heaps of enormous organizations are viewing that they have gone as excessively far to the youthful finish of the range. Kathy got notification from her child in the semiconductor business that youngsters would prefer not to invest the energy to be prepared in forms. They quit following 12 to year and a half and proceed onward to the following gig. [20:31] AARP is a supporter for more seasoned specialists. Kathy discusses their five-year award, open to anybody more than 50 and their one-year WESI award open to ladies more than 50. Ladies more than 50 make up the biggest developing neediness bunch in the nation. The AARP Austin five-year award was fruitful in getting many individuals to work. [22:49] People more than 50 remain jobless longer. All things considered. By and large. [23:46] Marc had Carol Fishman Cohen on the digital broadcast from iRelaunch a few months prior. Kathy discusses the iRelaunch program, pointed to a great extent at guardians re-joining the innovative workforce. GM has had a few of these activities related to the American Society of Women Engineers and they employed a considerable lot of the members. [25:32] Because the economy is so solid, with such low joblessness, organizations are searching for ability anyplace; they are in any event, ready to glance in the silver haired world. [25:57] Kathy recollects a program from years prior with Eli Lilly and another pharmaceutical firm who made a pool of their retirees to bring in for explicit enormous ventures at a decent compensation on a transitory premise. [27:05] Companies with a solid assorted variety program are adding more established specialists to their decent variety list. [27:55] Marc will have Tami Forman of Path Forward on the Repurpose Your Career digital recording in about a month to discuss helping organizations make reemergence programs for experts. [28:29] Kathy specifies the Candice Bergen of the Murphy Brown show returning as a relaunched vocation. Isabella Rosellini was long the essence of Lancôme until they not, at this point required her administrations because old enough. In her 60s, they recruited her again to speak to more seasoned ladies who need to be excellent. [29:40] One of Kathy's customers' ex has a Ph.D. in optical building. In the wake of working in new companies for quite a long time, he showed secondary school math and material science for a long time. At age 66, he has recently fired up with guard temporary worker BAE Systems who values his aptitude and experience. [30:47] People must be industrious to find a decent line of work in tech. One of Kathy's customers with a Masters' qualification utilized Jobscan for LinkedIn. Jobscan scores your resume by the watchwords in work posting. They propose having a watchword score of at any rate 80% before presenting a resume. The exceptional variant of Jobscan additionally filters your LinkedIn profile. [33:17] Kathy's customer rolled out the improvements to his LinkedIn profile recommended by Jobscan. He had the top notch rendition of LinkedIn so he could follow traffic. Quickly, the traffic to his profile expanded by 300%. An enrollment specialist who visited his profile helped him get a senior-level situation with the city of Austin. He is near 60 and in a wheelchair. [34:21] Public area occupations tend not to segregate by age. They take a gander at your abilities, foundation, and what you bring to the table. [34:49] Kathy shares a contextual analysis of a lady jobless for a year. Kathy helped her with the state application and fake meeting through the Back to Work 50+ program. [35:47] Kathy's customer was turned down for various state positions until she connected with two companions who were at NXP (some time ago Freescale and Motorola). Her companions got her associated there. She wound up with a $63K profession work at NXP. [37:23] Tenacity is staggeringly significant. More established individuals will in general be steady. Star Publica had an article that half of us more than 50 will be constrained into retirement, not by decision. [38:49] Austin currently has probably the most minimal versatility rates over the most recent 50 years. Individuals would prefer not to move. Individuals are happy to work for less to remain. A few people are fastened by conditions; where they need to live, base compensation, or base position needed. [40:48] Consider making a stride down the vocation stepping stool, or evolving enterprises. Would you be able to find a new line of work in the event that you extricated your prerequisites? Kathy shares contextual analyses of individuals who extended the extent of their inquiry. Be receptive and adaptable. [43:53] Marc gives a contextual analysis of a lady who drove for Lyft and got different agreement gigs from travelers. Getting out and meeting individuals got her out of her funk. [44:55] Volunteering is another approach to feel satisfied by sharing abilities you have that others need and worth. Here and there a non-benefit will enlist individuals from among their volunteers who are mission-driven. [46:07] Marc recounts his picture specialist, Jean, who has propelled a Fulfillment by Amazon business for a pierced stud back for ladies with listing ear cartilage. She sources them in China and sells them on Amazon. [47:04] There are a wide range of things you can do to bring in cash nowadays. [47:15] Kathy's end considerations: each and every individual who needs to go to work, goes to work, regardless of whether at an occupation with benefits or a gig. The main individuals who don't find a new line of work are individuals who quit looking and quit having faith in themselves. Connect. Encircle yourself with individuals who are vivacious, positive, strong, and energized. Help each other succeed! [48:23] Marc expresses gratitude toward Kathy and expectations you appreciated this scene. Marc has known Kathy for longer than 10 years. Her commitment to helping more established specialists secure positions is momentous. Marc needs you to recall the word 'steadiness.' [