A great first step toward professional competitiveness is to sign up to receive a free audio chapter of my new book: 5 Strategies For Staying Employed in Today's Economy. Here's some information about this upcoming book:
5 Strategies For Staying Employed in Today's Economy offers hope and practical insights for people over 40 who are "between jobs, underemployed, or hanging on to their jobs by their fingernails."
The 5 Strategies focus on what's happening to people over 40 in today's workplace. It's not just the economy that's making life a challenge for people over 40. Ageism in layoffs and hiring decisions is also creating significant problems for people over 40 as they struggle to stay employed. Getting rehired today is in part about defying ageist stereotypes and understanding how to do so; which is addressed by the third strategy.
5 Strategies tells the stories of today's baby boomer professionals and focuses on their needs from a holistic view. It's not just about their careers. Their bodies are falling apart due to physiological aging and many years of high stress, but at the same time the people who depend on them expect them to function as effectively as they did in earlier years. The expectation is that people over 40 will help their children through college, help their aging parents, and continue to meet their other family and financial responsibilities. Even though their bodies many not have bought into these expectations, and their earning power may be compromised.
"I wrote 5 Strategies in response to the struggles my clients are having as they deal with high stress lives and careers after 40; and more recently the sobering realities of unemployment," says Nina Price. "I see lots of very talented professionals who are having a difficult time getting rehired after layoffs, suffering in unsatisfying jobs, or living in fear of the next layoff. It's taking a toll on their health and wellbeing. I felt that their stories needed to be told. Readers tell me that what they like best are the stories because they're about what's really happening in today's workplace: the real issues and the crises that everyone's ignoring."
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