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Your coach advises you, first call with the two previous employers. The strategy is going to immediately. Already the first called employer immediately remembers and makes an offer to Monika. He financed also a training, It brings their outdated knowledge up to date.

Experience as a competitive advantage

The example shows the correct way for applicants with 50 plus. "Who on a positive", joint cooperation in the past can look, "will draw on a possible staffing on proven", says career expert Doris Brenner. The strategy with the highest prospects for applicants with 50+ is and will remain the way of contacts and networks, so the author.

This applies even, If the CV - such as the vitiated by gaps of Monika Garmisch -. Burner: "The majority of older candidates is this competitive advantage but not aware." Here it applies to applicants to think, best shared with an experienced consultant, can classify the relevance of experience.

Contacts from 20-30 Actively using a career years

Burner: "If you already" 20 or 30 Has years of professional experience, has can make this time a wide range of professional contacts. "It is these contacts now remember to call and actively to attack."

Social networks like XING or LinkedIn provide countless opportunities, to come across people again, It already has worked with. Brenner recommends to consider the first step in, where actually the former Chief, the former contact person at the customer or the fellow students from further education is currently active - and a nice contact request to send.

Self marketing as success

Executives go statistically later in retirement than the average. "An Executive at the age of" 50 Years, has still 15 "Years and more creative time to go", stressed Dr. Jürgen fog, Outplacement and career consultant from Wiesbaden.

The mountains many opportunities for the elderly, They often were considered unvermittelbar in recent years. Arrive for the 50 candidates on the right strategy to self-promotion: Every candidate should ask themselves, According to which a company selects an employee.

Important: Statistics, Data, Facts

The answer is simple: In the first place then, what these moves so far and has achieved, What use it for previous employers has and can bring for the own company. It is a matter, so Nebula, to concrete success in the hard facts: Reduce costs, Increased sales, Increased profits or other measurable benefits, that just serve these objectives.

In particular, executives around the 50 have a lot of success and benefit to offer. The same applies to represent it black on white, so to prove, for example, in a section of "Contributions to the success of the business" or a "current account".

The right market

Another important success criterion for the application was to the 50Jährigen processing of the right market, so Jürgen fog. About 80 Percent of the vacancies are filled, without being ever publicly advertised, in particular in leadership positions.

These "hidden places" are by a professional application – the so-called target-group short application – discovered and used for your own career. "This application should be the essential strengths", "Represent experience and in particular the achievements of the Executive", recommends fog.

50+ as an addition to the team

But even with a normal application on the open job market prospects have become much better, the expert Heiko Hoeppener notes. "The input of older employees is often referred to as invaluable and profitably considered", "particularly in the area of human resources development of younger colleagues", so Hoeppener.

Hoeppner performs with his company PI company GmbH Online-assessments. These determine the fit of personal competencies and required skills with the requirements of a job, You are independent of the age of the candidate.

Lifelong learning place “learned is learned”

Despite all of these opportunities, but also the applicant must with over 50 critically reflect his own candidate profile. Once learned is learned - this rate no longer applies. Lifelong learning of the day is today.

A plus for those employees, You are ready. "Older employees assume more personal responsibility for the ongoing training and continuing education throughout working life", "to the ability to work to keep and operational capability to increase", sums up Martina Bandoly from Berlin. Companies also recognize the relevance of a continuous development and promote more.