Avoid Age Discrimination By Eliminating These Give-Aways

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Originally Posted on http://careerpivot.com/2014/resume-say-age/


Home Address, HR will look up your address and demo graphics.

Home Phone, who has a home phone anymore? We use OOMA.

Email Address, don't use AOL, get your name as a domain ( around $10 per year).

Double Space after periods, only people who learned to type on real typewriters (50+) do this, Stop right now.

Skills, don't put every program you've ever used, managed or programmed. The programs that you mention may be long gone and provide clues to your age.

Focus On Your Job To Keep From Getting Fired

If you think you are going to get fired... just focus on doing your job. Don't over analyze the situation.

https://www.themuse.com/advice/3-situations-youre-probably-overanalyzing-and-how-to-stop

You Think You’re Going to Be Fired or Promoted

When you think you’re about to move up the food chain or be taken out of it, it’s easy to want to analyze every single cue that comes your way. Your boss mentioned the word “fired” and looked in your direction? Uh oh. A colleague whispered that someone in your department was getting promoted? Yay—maybe?

The easiest way to handle this situation is to keep doing whatever it is you’re doing. Even if something big is on the horizon, reading into every interaction typically only leads to disappointment (“I got her coffee and she didn’t offer me a promotion!”). Hang tight and keep doing your job right. If you’re supposed to go somewhere else, someone will tell you.

Use Job Description Words as Keywords in your Resume

via Reddit...

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/2l2vwd/lpt_when_applying_for_jobs_especially_to_large/

HR is the first line of defense for hiring at most large organizations, but HR people aren't all that great at judging qualifications for specific jobs (e.g. A person with a Master's in HR doesn't know what makes for a good nuclear safety inspector). This leads them to filter out resumes using keywords and jargon as an indicator of abilities. Paid resume development tools have figured this out. They essentially populate your resume with the keywords that they've found effective at getting interviews, but you can do this yourself if you know your industry well and research the job. As a last ditch effort, you can even fill your resume with white-font keywords that aren't visible to people but will be picked up by filtering software.

Tip For Getting People To Like You

Tip for getting people to like you... Let them talk about themselves

Studies show people get more pleasure from talking about themselves than they do from food or money:

Talking about ourselves—whether in a personal conversation or through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter—triggers the same sensation of pleasure in the brain as food or money…

via bakadesuyo.com

Read the rest here...

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2014/10/how-to-get-people-to-like-you/

Find Anyone Using Their Name with Norbert

Via Lifehacker ...

http://www.voilanorbert.com/

Norbert offers a simple interface, and you don't need to install a plugin to use it. The second you search for someone and turn up an address, Norbert checks the mail host to confirm that the address exists.

Make Sure You Get The Offer in Writing

The Importance of a Written Offer

The most basic reason is that you won’t know what you’re getting until you actually see the contract in writing. When HR calls, you’ll likely get a sense of what your base salary is, but little else. While the salary is obviously important, the other parts of a job offer (think health insurance, vacation days, maternity leave) add up, and you’ll want to know what is there—or isn’t there—before you say yes.

Related: 5 Things You Muse Discuss With HR Before Accepting a New Job

That said, you’ll also put yourself in a poor position to negotiate if you find out later that your job offer doesn’t include, say, basic short-term disability insurance. (In case you’re wondering, insurance is not generally something companies are willing to negotiate on, but if you’re not offered it, you can use it as a point to ask for a higher base salary.) Saying yes and then going back and pretending like you’re reconsidering unless they meet you in the middle is the equivalent of showing your hand in a poker game.

https://www.themuse.com/advice/get-it-in-writing-why-you-absolutely-must-have-a-written-job-offer

Why Employers Aren't Calling You Back

Inconsistencies in your background Since employers may use a variety of career websites, such as LinkedIn, Monster and CareerBuilder, consistency about you online is critical. If your LinkedIn profile has employment information that differs from what’s on your resumé, it could create misgivings in the mind of hiring managers and recruiters, preventing you from getting called back.

via http://www.businessinsider.com/why-employers-arent-calling-back-2014-5