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Career Change Late in Your Career: Focus on Your Strengths Rather than Your History

Your Work, Your Way

It’s natural to think that career change later in life will be a challenge, and data backs that up. Hiring managers report a strong preference for candidates who are 30-44 years old – mature enough to have advanced experience and skills, young enough to have fire in the belly and plenty of time left in their careers.

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BNET Column: Forget the job hunt. Have a baby instead. | Penelope.

Penelope Trunk

Posted by Sam on September 7, 2010 at 5:31 pm | permalink | Reply I am currently a grad student and I am doing this because there was no way I could find a job after getting laid off, and wanting to leverage my chances for a career change. So you generalizing that grad school is not the way to go is totally wrong.

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