What Employers want

Many mature workseekers desperately want acknowledgement of themselves as valuable individuals, and approach their jobsearch with that uppermost in their minds. The reality is, however, most employers are not really interested in who the person might be – or at least not until that person is working in their business and they get to know him or her.

They’re interested primarily in the skills the person is ‘selling’ and that they’re not going to be the sort of person likely to create chaos in the business in any way, shape or form!

In these competitive times, they are looking for ‘can do’ people who are action- oriented and self-directed, and every bit of the recruiting process is…