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5 Things Boomers Must Understand About 2024 Job Market (and Younger Workers)

5 Things Boomers Must Understand About 2024 Job Market (and Younger Workers)

In a recent AARP survey, approximately 70% of workers enjoy working with other generations. Collectively, they see it as an opportunity to learn new skills and perspectives.

For the most part, boomers are on the outside looking in since many are staying in the workforce and unretiring, they should consider how they talk about and connect with younger workers. Here are my suggestions in how to go about it:

1) Boomers must value and understand the needs of the employer or a recruiter. It’s not a bad idea to follow and read what recruiters say about the candidates they interview and hire. The more specific the recruiter is to your industry, the more insight you’ll receive. These can inform every part of your approach to finding the right opportunity to navigate the interview process.

2) Boomers must understand their presentation to persuade employers to hire them. Every opportunity to impress must count. While no one is looking for perfection, every interaction with someone in the company is scrutinized.

3) Boomers must be perpetual learners. It’s essential to hone your skills constantly, but it only matters if they’re relevant to the employer’s needs.

4) Boomers must create synergy with younger counterparts (particularly those open to it). Many Gen Z workers are more open to learning from them, especially if there is a value exchange of shared learning experiences. Boomers can help younger workers bow to tone a message, while younger workers can help Boomers with simple tech tasks such as converting a document to PDF.

5) Boomers must approach younger workers with tact and respect when working and networking with younger hiring managers and recruiters. They need to read the room to find common ground rather than differences. When youngsters value their past experiences and knowledge, they will let them know.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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Don’t Take That Job ‘Til You Read This Book

Don’t Take That Job ‘Til You Read This Book
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Don’t Take That Job ‘Til You Read This Book will help you control your career in a way most job seekers don’t. Leigh Branham and Mark Hirschfield authored this book (and included contributions from me and others) to help you navigate the post-pandemic changes in the world of work. 

Leigh Branham is the founder of Keeping of the People, Inc. He has authored several books and is a speaker and consultant. 

Mark D. Hirschfield is the Vice President of Consulting Services and Strategic Partnerships of BI Worldwide. 

This is the second book Leigh and Mark authored together. Both have long career coaching and consulting experiences. 

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Discussion highlights: 

  • The book’s primary purpose was to look at all the possible pitfalls and the main reasons employees leave, flip the coin, and look at it and say, these might be one of the reasons you would leave your next employer.
  • They use the lenses from Lee’s last book to say what leadership is like. What are career opportunities like? We know that if people don’t experience those things, it oftentimes can lead them to be demoralized and then, in turn, leave.
  • Leigh and Mark stepped back and thought about the pandemic effect, and what happened was people had money coming from the government, and they had a little bit of cushion. 
  • Technology and innovation created more possibilities, such as daily compensation. 
  • Is your employer helping you feel valued from a compensation and reward point of view?

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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You Are Really The Prescription To The Job Description

You Are Really The Prescription To The Job Description

My son is a nurse. He often asks me about my health. When he was in nursing school, he asked me about my medication, diet changes, and food. When I mentioned that I loved a specific fruit, he reacted in a way that I didn’t expect, “If you’re eating X and taking Y (meds), you should know X binds with Y and won’t be effective.”

I looked up the study he referred me to and asked other nursing friends, and he was right.

When I say, “You should be the prescription to the employer’s job description,” there is thus a layer to consider.

That layer is critical thinking.

When pharmacists fulfill drug prescriptions, it is one of the crucial duties of a pharmacist. Another critical responsibility of a pharmacist is to identify potential drug interactions.

A popular definition on most websites is, “A drug interaction is a change or a reaction in the effect of a drug when it is taken with another drug, food, beverage, supplement, or medical condition.”

My short stint as a personal trainer over a decade ago gave me a warning from mentors and other trainers when recommending supplements. Even specific types of food can interact or bind themselves to drugs or supplements to nullify or limit their effectiveness. I vigorously set out to learn the difference between improvement from placebo, double-blind controlled, human randomized controlled trials, etc. But I digress.

Your takeaway is how you can offer solutions to interviewers, showing your awareness of the effectiveness of the suggested solution. While you may know the right things to do or say, can you explain what would potentially obstruct your solutions? Under what conditions would they work? What conditions could keep your suggestions from working? Are there any potential negative interactions to your strategies?

Offering solutions in a prescriptive manner sounds more casual than it really is. It is a thoughtful approach, knowing what to leave in, what to leave out, and the pros and cons. Demonstrating how you continuously seek out mastery of your craft reveals the strengths and weaknesses of how you get the job done.

While we want to brag about what we can do, are we as critical when and why our strategies and thoughts? Is it a struggle? Are there times when they don’t work?

As you become the prescription to the employer’s job description, you will realize that it is more than just reading and familiarizing yourself with the material on the Web.

Knowing the difference between what the material says and what works with human interaction is key. Many times, the experience, trials and errors, and missteps inform better than the material we read.

Understand you are not only prescribing yourself as the solution, but with clarity, you’re a work in progress. Your knowledge, experience, and expertise is still a work in progress.

About Mark Anthony Dyson

I am the "The Voice of Job Seekers!" I offer compassionate career and job search advice as I hack and re-imagine the job search process. You need to be "the prescription to an employer's job description." You must be solution-oriented and work in positions in companies where you are the remedy. Your job search must be a lifestyle, and your career must be in front of you constantly. You can no longer shed your aspirations at the change seasons. There are strengths you have that need constant use and development. Be sure you sign up to download my E-Book, "421 Modern Job Search Tips 2021!" You can find my career advice and work in media outlets such as Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, Glassdoor, and many other outlets.

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I moderated a panel on Wealth Management for executives by Black Enterprise Magazine in October 2023 in Miami.

I was interviewed on Scripps News show, “The Why!” 4/13/2023

I talked with John Tarnoff and Kerry Hannon of “The Second Act” podcast about job searching after 50 in October 2022.

I was on “The Career Confidante” podcast to talk about “boomerang employees” and “job fishing” in June 2022.

Making Job Search a Lifestyle With “Dr. Dawn Graham on Careers,” SiriusXM Ch. 132, Wharton School of Business May 2021

In May 2020, I talked with LinkedIn’s Senior News Editor Andrew Seaman on “#GetHired” Live.”

Beverly Jones, host of the NPR podcast “Jazzed About Work,” invited me back to talk job scams, job search trends, and AI tools in April 2024

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