How to get a good job after 50: a step-by-step guide to job search and success

The right approach -- Choosing the right career path -- Your résumé -- Writing the challenging bits of your résumé -- Identifying achievements -- Achievement statements and key skills spiel -- Documents to support your application -- Using social media -- Networking and research -- Building and maintaining a positive self-image -- Performing well in information and job interviews -- Questions and answers for the job interview -- Assessment centres -- Succeeding in the new job -- Appendix: specimen résumés. Cover; About the author; Title page; Copyright; Contents; 1: What mindfulness is and isn't; What is mindfulness?; What isn't mindfulness?; Origins of mindfulness; The benefits of mindfulness; 2: How mindfulness can work at work; Know thy need!; Seven general mindfulness working principles; Seven specific mindfulness working principles; 3: Mindful decision-making at work; Mindless decision-making models; Mindful decision-making models; What motivates our decisions?; Is it better to make a bad decision now or a good decision later?; Thinking and decision-making; Decision-making and listening. Decision-making and ethicsSome examples of mindful working decisions; Some techniques for mindful decision-making at work; 4: Mindful leadership at work; Mindless leadership models; Mindful leadership models; Mindful leadership ingredients; A parable of mindful leadership; A technique for developing mindful leadership at work; 5: Mindful relationships at work; Mindless working relationship models; Mindful working relationship models; Working together; How mindfulness can help us to work together; Some working relationship examples; Some techniques for developing mindful working relationships. 6: Mindful creativity at workWhat is creativity and can we create it?; How creativity can work at work; Mindfulness and creativity how and why; Working creatively with other people; Some mindfully creative working examples; Techniques for mindfully expanding our working creativity; 7: Mindful enjoyment at work; A working enjoyment experiment; The gratitude attitude; Workplace tyrannies; Mindfulness and enjoyment; Mindfulness, enjoyment and working effectively; Humour at work; Some personal examples of mindful enjoyment at work; Some techniques for improving our workplace enjoyment. 8: Some working examples of mindfulnessHospitality; Sales; Teaching; The trades; The creative and performing arts (and sciences); The legal industry; The healing industry; 9: Mindfulness and our life work; What really works for us?; Working our way to enlightenment; What does an enlightened workplace look like?; Acknowledgements; References; Index; An extract from Mindfulness for Life. ‘Mindfulness at Work'reveals how the practice of mindfulness — the ability to focus our attention on what ‘is'rather than be distracted by what ‘isn't'— can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives. So, if you want to: • reduce your stress • become more productive • improve your decision-making skills • enjoy better relationships with your colleagues • work more creatively • develop your leadership skills, and • generally enjoy your job more ... then mindfulness can help! Written by an expert with years of both clinical and personal experience, ‘Mindfulness at Work'includes examples of mindfulness in action in the workplace, while also looking at how the principles of mindfulness can be applied to specific professions, from sales and marketing to teaching, from law to medicine, from the trades to the creative arts. Dr Stephen McKenzie has over twenty years of experience in researching and teaching a broad range of psychological areas, most recently, mindfulness. Dr McKenzie has a unique ability to present potentially complex information in a warm, engaging and entertaining way. He has recently been appointed as the Research and Evaluation Officer for the City of Greater Geelong's Preventive Health initiative. He is co-author of Exisle's highly successful ‘Mindfulness for Life'. Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step-by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace because of their experience, skills, reliability and sense of responsibility before going on to show how to demonstrate these qualities to prospective employers. It encourages people to adopt a pro-active, ‘self-employed' approach, building self-esteem and promoting a time-efficient, self-managed job search program, and explains the importance of: • concentrating on no more than two or three job leads at any one time • using proven marketing techniques to win good jobs • writing résumés that grab the employer's interest in the first few sentences • finding jobs before they are advertised • building an effective job search network • using social media to support the job search • maintaining a positive self-image • effective preparation for the job interview. Specimen résumés are included in the book and are available for download as templates from the linked website. Job seekers can almost guarantee getting a good job quickly if they follow the author's recipe for success! Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace because of their experience, skills, reliability and sense of responsibility before going on to show how to demonstrate these qualities to prospective employers. It encourages people to adopt a pro-active, self-employed' approach, building self- esteem and promoting a time-efficient, self-managed job search program, and explains the importance - concentrating on no more than two or three job leads at any one time - using proven marketing techniques to win good jobs - writing resumes that grab the employer's interest in the first few sentences - finding jobs before they are advertised - building an effective job search network - using social media to support the job search - maintaining a positive self-image- effective preparation for the job interview. Specimen resumes are included in the book and are available for download as templates from the linked website. Job seekers can almost guarantee getting a good job quickly if they follow the author's recipe for success! Mindfulness at Work reveals how the practice of mindfulness -- the ability to focus our attention on what is rather than be distracted by what isn't -- can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives. So, if you want to: - reduce your stress - become more productive - improve your decision-making skills - enjoy better relationships with your colleagues - work more creatively - develop your leadership skills, and - generally enjoy your job more ... then mindfulness can help! Written by an expert with years of both clinical and personal experience, Mindfulness at Work includes examples of mindfulness in action in the workplace, while also looking at how the principles of mindfulness can be applied to specific professions, from sales and marketing to teaching, from law to medicine, from the trades to the creative arts Mindfulness at Work reveals how the practice of mindfulness - the ability to focus our attention on what is rather than be distracted by what isn't - can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our modern lives, especially our working lives. So, if you want to: reduce your stress become more productive improve your decision - making skills enjoy better relationships with your colleagues work more creatively develop your leadership skills, and generally enjoy your job more ... then mindfulness can help! Written by an expert with years of both clinical and personal experience, Mindfulness at Work includes examples of mindfulness in action in the workplace, while also looking at how the principles of mindfulness can be applied to specific professions, from sales and marketing to teaching, from law to medicine, from the trades to the creative arts. Mindfulness is an ancient, life-enhancing, healing technique that can help us remember our natural state of happiness and health, even if we think we are too modern and too busy to prioritize what's really important-- being fully alive and fully alive to our full life potential. McKenzie reveals how the ability to focus our attention on what is, rather than be distracted by what isn't, can be a powerful antidote to the distractions and stresses of our working lives This practical guide for job seekers over 50 makes use of proven strategies that the author has developed in over 20 years as a leading job search specialist. It encourages a pro-active, time-efficient, self-managed approach, guaranteed to enable job seekers to find and win the job they want.