The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations has launched a new phone service to support mature age jobseekers explore their employment options.
You can talk to a qualified career adviser who will help you identify your skills, explore career options and develop a personal plan to find employment.
Call 13 17 64 weekedays between 8 am and 6 pm.
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, where possible, have a closing date listed with them. Please take note of these when considering applying.
*** Handyman wanted - building experience for some house renovations. Edge of CBD - up to $25 neg.
** Contact working.vic@nationalseniors.com.au for position descriptions for any of the above positions.
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
