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John Tarnoff - Candidate-Centric Career Advocate & Strategist. Hiring is broken. As a mid-career professional, you are getting lost because the system doesn't know how to value people approaching or after 50. Instead, take back control over your career, define the value you deliver, and get your network to sell that for you.
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John Tarnoff is an executive and career transition coach, speaker, and author who supports mid and late-career professionals in defining, planning, and achieving more meaningful and sustainable careers.
My book, " Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream Career Over 50," outlines 5 steps and 23 strategies to successfully recover from losing a job, strategize a re-entry into the workforce, or develop a plan to start a new business.
- Why Career Design?
- A New Career Stage Paradigm
- Use Your Time Wisely
- Discard Your Baggage
- Upgrade Your Role
- Step Into Your Wisdom.
- Designing For The Authentic You
- More Successful Over 50
- It Starts Here: Claim Your Niche
- Are You onboard? Get to Work!
Your future career is not an inevitable outcome and unraveling of good or bad decisions that you made 20, 30, or 40 years ago. By looking at this as a design process, you can systematically break down and master the career development process. You can make a plan and adopt a series of principles that will create the career that you want. Get off th...
To understand where you’re heading in your future career, it helps to look at how the fundamentals of our careers have changed in the digital age. When we grew up, we were taught that to succeed in life we had to get a good education. That education would lead us to a good job. And after working for 40 years in that job, we would get to retire to a...
Building on this new paradigm, you have been around the block enough to know who you are. You have the awareness. You also have the experience, wisdom, and perspective to make valuable and insightful contributions. You can deliver the value. And you are likely at a stage of life where a good part of your work is, and/or could be providing guidance ...
The career design process is not only about narrowing down the job options you want to focus on, it is also about reconciling your past so that it doesn’t distract or discourage you from pursuing your vision. Clarity and purpose may currently elude you. You may feel that you actually don’t know who you are after all this time. It may seem like your...
At this point in your life, you’re done with being a cog in someone else’s wheel. You want to do it your way. You want the flexibility and freedom to conduct your work life the way you want. Whether this pertains to your schedule, your location, the people you work with, or the responsibilities you take on, you’ve earned that right. Fortunately, th...
However, one of the reasons you may have been downsized or let go from your job in your 50s could have been the perception that you were still doing the same job you were hired to do years ago. You may not have realized that you needed to step up, to refresh or even reinvent your role to stay current, stay relevant, and stay employable. Ageism is d...
Putting all of this together requires thought, analysis, strategy, and time. That’s why it’s a design process. Done right, it will be a conscious, intentional, flexible, appropriate, and useful plan that expresses the unique contribution that you alone can make. It’s not that you are unique in the world. There are certainly others who can do what y...
The Kauffmann Foundation released a study a few years ago on entrepreneurship in the U.S., concluding that business startups by older entrepreneurs are more successfulthan those started by younger entrepreneurs – often by a margin of 2:1 or more. And according to the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) 82% of older workers who changed t...
The most important thing you can do to start this process is to define a very specific solution, problem, product, or service you will focus on. The biggest mistake new business creators make is to think that their target market is larger than it should be. Remember that if you think your target market is “everyone,” your actual market is “no one.”...
Decide more clearly and more precisely what that value package is that you want to provide based on everything I’ve touched on in this article. Go looking for people who will understand that, and refer you to people who will jump at hiring you. You know how to do this: 1. Make a list of your “must-haves” and deal-breakers for what you want and don’...
John Tarnoff - Coach Author Speaker. 3,408 likes · 1 talking about this. I Help Mid-Career Professionals Land Better Jobs & Enjoy Impactful, Sustainable Careers | Master LinkedIn | Leverage Your...
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View John Tarnoff MA/MSP’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Navigating a career in a volatile business taught me resilience and resourcefulness. In…
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A career development consultant, university educator and former media/entertainment executive, John Tarnoff recently served as Adjunct Professor and Head of Industry Relations for the Carnegie Mellon University Master of Entertainment Industry Management program.
