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When you're past entry level, you need to be getting jobs through your network not by cold-calling or submitting resumes in response to ads. I've changed jobs
by ams6110 9y ago
When you're past entry level, you need to be getting jobs through your network not by cold-calling or submitting resumes in response to ads.
I've changed jobs three times since I was 40, but in all cases I knew people at my new employer who could sell me internally.
I don't think it's so much age as it is that employers don't want to take as much risk on an unknown person for more senior level positions.
- tootie 9y agoIt's how I got my last job. I haven't actually been hired off my resume in 10 years. Almost all of my network today do the crap I'm trying to get away from.
- daxfohl 9y agoOP here. FWIW I got my leads entirely off of spamming my resume around. For the prior 15 years I'd done freelancing for local companies and had a few-year stint in a small company, so didn't have a network. I was in small-town Michigan so once freelancing dried up I knew moving was going to be a requirement. Thus I was able to spam the whole country. That probably helped my cause a bit. I noticed you mentioned LinkedIn in another thread. FWIW I don't have an account and it didn't appear to hurt me.