Would you like to know if age matters in your technology career?
Would you like to know how to win and get hired or paid more or promoted image?
If so, this video is for you?
How Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs, and I'm the founder and CEO of go cloud careers, an
organization that's dedicated towards building the most high performance cloud computing
careers.
Personally, I've been working in technology now for over 25 years.
And I've been helping others get their first tech job or get promoted in tech for more
than two decades.
And I want to help you get hired or promoted.
Now does age matter?
The answer is yes and no.
And we can get hired at any age, we can get promoted at any age.
But if we play the right game, we can maximize our capabilities at any age.
And really, that's the key when it comes down to it.
play to your strengths, position yourself to the employer based upon your strengths.
And our age does give us competitive advantages at all stages.
As long as we know how to show what we've gleaned from our life experience, work experience,
or youth whatever the case is, there's a game to play to show the hiring managers, we're
the right fit for the job.
But when a young person does, versus a middle aged person does versus a senior person does
aren't necessarily the same things.
And we need to play to our strengths.
So let's begin with what is often the hardest people to get hired or paid more promoted
the young people.
And here's the reason why, when we're young or potentially fresh out of school, we lack
experience, which signals that we also lack wisdom.
Now, employers see the lack of wisdom as risky, because we're more likely to make mistakes,
because we've not been smacked down by life and learn from our mistakes yet.
But here's the key.
When we are young, we have the maximum amount of energy, learning speed and are often not
bound by life and family constraints.
So when we are young, we can learn faster, we can work harder, and we can truly help
our organizations.
So the key when we're young is to show the following.
We have such extreme energy, enthusiasm and passion and willingness to learn and work
that we're needed.
We've got to show we're willing to go above and beyond to the key on your youngest to
show passion, energy, enthusiasm, capability, and willingness to learn.
And the fact that we'll do anything that's necessary, legally, ethically and morally,
to get the job done.
And that's the way we position it when we're young.
Because we lack experience, we must play to our game, energy and enthusiasm and our speed
of learning, which is generally speaking most often when we're younger.
Now, what about some of this middle age like me, there's still another game to play.
For many, this is actually the sweet spot.
And here's the reason.
At this age, we have life experience and wisdom.
But it also still can learn pretty great.
So how do we capitalize on being middle aged and playing to that game?
Well, here's what we do.
We show we've got life experience and wisdom, we show that we know what we know.
And we know we don't know, we show the players that we know are fit and how we can make them
successful.
We want to capitalize on our experience and our wisdom that still show that we're still
fast moving.
And that we can still learn and that we're motivated and passionate.
This kind of a hybrid which we don't want to do between the youth and the people that
are more senior.
Now let's examine someone that's older and more senior, this person is a treasure chest
of ways they can help the organization this person has, generally speaking a tremendous
amount of life experience and wisdom from a lifetime of experience.
This person knows themselves very well.
They understand what they're good at what they're not good at.
This person knows when to get help from others.
This person typically speaking, because they've been around for a while, and they've had some
life experience, potentially career experience, even if it's a different career.
They know a company's needs to be successful.
And this person knows how to make their company a manager more successful.
So when we're older, we have to compete on our wisdom, our ability to bring out the best
in others.
The ability to coach the about a mentor, and hear the pay is on our life experience and
our wisdom and all the experiences that we can use to help the company grow the team
grow.
Now the key is when we're older, we still have to show that we can learn.
So we want to show that we're adaptable in nature.
We want to show that we can still learn but the secret for us is our wisdom and experience.
So play that as your game.
The point here is that no matter what, and where we are in our career, we all have something
magical to offer the employer, all of us we can all improve the company and health have
better jobs because we can improve the player will always have a better job.
So the key is play your game in young your energy, your enthusiasm and your passion in
middle age.
It's a hybrid between your wisdom and experience and your end Regina Soozee Azzam and as we
become more senior, it's our wisdom is our leadership.
It's our ability to mentor and coach and it's our knowledge of how to make businesses better.
That's the secret playing a game and winning at any age.
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This is Michael Gibbs.
I'm the founder and CEO of go cod careers and I want to help you all get cloud hired
or promoted.
I look forward to seeing you in another video very soon.
Take care everyone.