Ray A. Smith

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910 appearances 20 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2018 last heard Nov 2024

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Jumpstarting Your Career After Age 50 · 22 Feb 2022 podcast

And that might not sound like that makes much of a difference, but it does because the more specific numbers you put on and the older they are or the further back they go, it just, you know, someone does the math and they just go, oh, this person must be really old. voice-verified

If you say something like more than 10 years, it sort of gives you a little more wiggle room and doesn't pin you down so much. voice-verified

And in addition to that, he also made sure, quite frankly, appearances matter. voice-verified

He made sure to keep his hair long. voice-verified

close cropped because when it grows, it's grayer. voice-verified

And if he was going to be doing in-person interviews or Zoom interviews, he didn't want all that gray to show. voice-verified

And it's a sad thing to say that that matters, but appearances do matter. voice-verified

And he was very conscious of it. voice-verified

And so he, you know, he did what he had to do. voice-verified

It's really important for this person who is interviewing for a job or looking for jobs and has a lot of experiences and is older to really play up their skills and not so much how long they've been in the workforce. voice-verified

It's just really important to stress what you can do, what you've achieved, voice-verified

But also that you're someone who can succeed in whatever scenario you're put in, that you can work well with others, for instance, so that you're somebody who's a team player or just because you've been working for a long time and you have all this experience that you're not open to change or open to taking directions or open to working with younger people. voice-verified

But what you want to really focus on is not so much the years spent at where you worked or what you did, but you really want to play up the skills and what you can achieve and what you can get done. voice-verified

And that's going to really make the difference and get people to focus less on how old you are and more on your talent. voice-verified

And that's your goal. voice-verified

No problem. voice-verified

Thanks, Trinae. voice-verified

WSJ Your Money Briefing · How to Find a Mentor in a Virtual World · 4 Feb 2022 podcast

One of the benefits is basically you are getting someone who can show you the ropes of how to navigate either the company or that industry. matched

So that's one of the benefits. matched

Another benefit is you can learn skills and that can be technical skills, but also some social skills or soft skills on how to navigate everything from office politics or just relationships in general. matched

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