Got any useful jobsearch tips that helped you find a job and might work for other mature jobseekers? If so, please send them in to us and we can include them in a jobsearch skills book we're currently compiling.
*Note: Jobs listed on this website will usually have a closing date listed with them. Please take note of these when considering applying. Many of them come to workingconnections via an agency which specialises in recruiting in diversity areas - and 'age' comes into the disadvantaged category.
** P/t telesales operator. Melbourne CBD. No direct sales - just lead generation from company database. Mon & Tues 0-5, but negotiable. (Posted 4 March, 2010)
** Field installers - low energy & water saving products. Installers needed throughout Melbourne region. Handyman background an advantage. Must have current Police Check and own transport/licence, and be comfortable working alone. Proficiency in spoken and written English required. Five days per week, which may include weekends. (Posted 4 March, 2010)
** Various mortgage collection and credit card collections roles in Melbourne CBD. Part-time and full-time. Minimum 30 wpm typing plus patience and good negotiating/problem solving skills (Posted 3 March, 2010)
** Full time customer service roles - Mt Waverley. Inbound call centre of major service delivery organisaton, so must have good complaint resolving skills an experience. (Posted 3 March, 2010)
** Team Leader role with a credit management/credit recovery agency. Melbourne CBD. Flexible f/t hours. (Posted 3 March, 2010)
** Client services consultant with excellent computer skills and passon for investment portfolios, superannuation and insurance. Full time rotating roster. (Posted 3 March 2010)
Contact working.vic@nationalseniors.com.au for position descriptions for any of the above positions.
**St Vincents Hospital is looking for an HR generalist, preferably with Chris 21 experience. Check their website for details. Closes 12 March 2010.
ARE YOU FINDING:
- you can't get acknowledgement for your job applications, let alone get to speak to a real human being?
- you're experiencing subtle - and sometimes not so subtle - age discrimination?
- that you're starting to doubt yourself, along with your skills and potential value to an employer?
- that you're totally fed up with hitting your head against a brick wall? Or perhaps
- you're not even sure you want to get back into your old profession or job area anyway ... but don't know what else to do?
We know, just because you're over 50, that you're not over the hill. In fact we know you're probably hitting potentially the most creative time of your life ... if you could just work out what to do with all that knowledge, passion and urge to be of genuine service!
If this sounds like you, then why not contact workingconnections now - working.vic@nationalseniors.com.au - and we'll get back to you.
Australia's unemployment rate has been dropping, coming in at a one-year low of 5.3 per cent in January, 2010. But the figures mask some serious problems for older Australians. Research done at National Seniors Australia's Canberra-based Productive Ageing Centre late in 2009 shows the average time (Australia-wide) that a person over 55 spends looking for a job is 76 weeks.
It's even worse for mature jobseekers in Victoria, according to these figures, with an average period between jobs adding up to 102 weeks!
At the same time, the Federal Government is 'encouraging' us to work longer ... For many mature jobseekers, it's a matter of 'if only'!
Email us for details: working.vic@nationalseniors.com.au
workingconnections
Employment Services Section
NSA Vic Branch
Level 2, 290 Collins Street
MELBOURNE VIC. 3000
03(6)96506144
working.vic@nationalseniors.com.au
http://www.workingconnections.com/
