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Job Hunting Over 50? How to Game the System
I was invited to participate in a video interview for an international company looking for a remote writer for their political news curation. I utilized some SEO tricks I learned to get my resume noticed.
The employer had shared some of my own articles on their app which is no doubt why I was tapped for an interview. I wouldn’t be surprised if this article shows up there because, like me, they love statistics.
After five minutes of talking to me, you would know I am infinitely qualified for such a position. I have current, relevant experience doing this job.
We discussed where to find more in-depth thought pieces such as those on Medium. We talked about how the quality of Reddit had declined since China’s $300M investment and subsequent censorship and how the once-popular site was circling the drain like Facebook.
There were other questions about whether I used Slack and if I knew HTML, CSS, WordPress and basic SEO — and of course, the answer was “absolutely.”
I could tell there was a huge disconnect for these 20-somethings. I was middle-aged. I should not know these things. I was probably more active on social media than they were.
Two minutes into the interview — after telling me about the company and hearing nothing about me — one of them…
