Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Career Tips for Older Workers

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In this video Marci Alboher, Kerry Hannon, Jacquelyn James discuss career transitions for older works and encore careers, among other things.

Learn more in the video below:

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Networking, Selling Yourself & Encore Careers

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share these every weekend so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

1. 5 Ways You're Ruining Your Job Search
"It is the following five mistakes that have an even bigger impact on the outcome of your search."

2. 5 'Musts' to Network Effectively & Land the Job 
"How do you network more effectively and more consistently? First, you need to make it a priority, and schedule it into your week."

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3. The Surprising Secret to Selling Yourself
"People are much more impressed, whether they realize it or not, by your potential than by your track record. It would be wise to start focusing your pitch on your future, as an individual or as a company, rather than on your past — even if that past is very impressive indeed."

4. 14 Things You Should Do at the End of Every Work Day
"How you end the day is critical, as it has much to do with how you start the next day."

5. How to Launch an Encore Career  
"Now that we’re living into our 80s, the thought of ending our careers in our mid-60s isn’t financially realistic."

High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share these every weekend so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

1. Why You Remain Stuck in a Career You Hate
"I believe there are even deeper reasons for this epidemic of people hating what they do each day for their living.  These reasons touch on underlying emotional, spiritual and behavioral conditions, and reveal a deep disconnection to what it means to live joyfully, authentically, and meaningfully."

2. Why Every Job Seeker Needs to Blog
"Your blog demonstrates your ability to think and your ability to write, and these abilities are important to your future boss."

3. 10 Dos & Don'ts for Shifting from a Military to Civilian Career
"Though transitioning from military to civilian life requires hard work and planning, if executed well, it can be an exciting, purposeful mission filled with large rewards and meaning."

4. Bridging the Gap to an Encore Career 
"A new survey ... estimates that 31 million people between ages 44 and 70 are interested in encore careers."

5. How to Curate Your Own Personal Job Feed
"You have to become a curator of your own personal job feed, narrowing down all of the various websites and listings to a truly personalized stream of opportunities."