Check out my conversation with Mary Cronin on Best Careers Over 50 about how to stand up for your experience in a job market that seems not to care about it.
Make no mistake: your experience is valuable. But it can be hard for other people to see that value when it’s buried in a long list of roles, skills, and responsibilities. Your task is to find the through line: that single narrative thread that traces the growth of your value over the course of your career. What are the key problems you solve especially well?
How does our experience relate to the future challenges prospective employers are dealing with? What specific contribution can you make now? This gives people a much better sense of how to connect you with their opportunity.
Think of yourself as a consultant delivering value to a client, not an employee taking direction from a manager. Those conversations can lead somewhere you didn’t expect.
My own move to DreamWorks Animation in the 2000s began with a referral and a few open-ended conversations, not a posted job.
The same thing can happen to you.
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