If you are a sales professional or want to become one, or if you are looking for a new sales job, you will face one of the toughest interview processes of any job seeker.
Used to be, seniority counted. For a lot. It was an orderly progression up the career ladder, many times within a single company, and if you were good at your career opportunity, you’d likely get your turn in management. Not anymore. For one thing, career paths aren’t what they once were–it’s more common to not only job-hop, but to career-hop. In addition, technology is advancing exponentially, and the one with the latest knowledge is going to have the jump on promotions. None of this is major news. However, because of all this flux, many older workers are finding themselves working for a manager/supervisor/boss who is younger than they’re, and not all of them deal with that very well, and it can be a big stumbling block for older career opportunity candidates.
Here’s a great article (Help! Save My Career! My New Boss is Just a Kid!) that offers some really valuable advice for someone in that situation, including ways to position yourself for a promotion. Of course, the main point is “Get over yourself!”, which I whole-heartedly agree with. Don’t think some young whippersnapper can’t teach you a thing or 2 just because you have a lot of experience. There’s a reason that young person got the career opportunity. Find out what it’s and see what you can learn from it, so that you can advance your career, too.
Article courtesy of Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally
recognized clinical and lab revenue recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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