Over 50? Your experience is an advantage. Learn how to use it.
Whether you are looking for a new job, returning to work, considering consultancy or planning a more flexible working life, The Ageless Career gives you practical tools to take your next step with purpose and confidence.
Who is this book for?
- Professionals over 50 who want to change jobs or restart their careers.
- Experienced jobseekers who feel overlooked because of their age.
- People considering consultancy, self-employment or a portfolio career.
- Anyone who wants to keep working, contributing and learning beyond traditional retirement age.
What will you gain?
- A clearer career direction: identify your strengths, priorities and the value you can offer an employer or client.
- A stronger professional message: explain your achievements and show why your experience matters today.
- More ways to find opportunities: explore the hidden job market, professional relationships and targeted approaches to employers.
- Practical job-search methods: use Career Due Diligence to research organisations and a Career War Room to organise your next moves.
- Modern career tools: make better use of LinkedIn and AI while retaining your own judgement and voice.
- More options for your future: explore employment, consultancy, project work, self-employment and a flexible working retirement.
- A plan you can act on: work through exercises, worksheets and a structured 90-day plan.
Why buy The Ageless Career?
Because experience alone is not always enough to win an opportunity. You need to make its value visible, approach the right people and turn conversations into concrete possibilities. This book shows you how, step by step. It is designed to be used, not simply read.
Rather than telling you to start again, it helps you build on everything you have already learnt. No unrealistic promises of instant employment: just practical strategies, useful questions and a framework for moving forward.
Practical experience behind the advice
Author Michael Strauss has over 20 years’ experience in recruitment, headhunting and career coaching, has carried out more than 1,000 recruitments and has founded and run staffing and recruitment businesses specialising in experienced and older workers.
What you receive
A 299-page digital book written in English, supplied as a downloadable PDF. It includes numbered chapters, a linked contents list and PDF bookmarks. Read it on a computer, tablet or phone with a PDF reader; smaller screens may require zooming. This is a digital edition only, not a printed book.
