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no career change or development or coaching options for actual adults?

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I am exhausted, and find it very hard to visit all those websites associated with autism and employment to only find out they focus on young people or don't provide any support or job boards at all apart from generic advice. Like the DWP... which is one of the must unhelpful services out there. 

I am over 45 and although my CV looks pretty good I cannot land a job. I fail at each and every interview. This can be misunderstanding of what is expected and the sheer lack of ability to perform without performing. 

I am at my wits end. I even looked at apprenticeships. 

Now that DEI is out of fashion it all seems even more hopeless.

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  • Your CV is doing ok if you are getting interviews. That is the point of the CV, to get through the filtering, get noticed and get you in front of someone.

    Then it comes down to being ok in the interviews, and how good the other candidates are. You can control the first one, not the second. Being confident, not too confident, and knowing something about the role and the company helps.

    Do you get any feedback on how you did?

    Have you had big gaps in your employment?

    Are you applying for the right level of job?  If you are too over qualified you may be able to do the job but not get it as they don't think you will stay.

    Could you try applying for some different types of job to see what would happen?

    Quite often people get jobs through their contacts, it is one of the main ways, since someone can put in a good word for you. Which is a big problem if you are isolated.

    As you get older you are supposed to emphasise your skills and knowledge, since you have examples from what you have done before. You know you as well as anyone else. You are also supposed to know something about what you are doing, so there is no real help.

    Unless you have spme skills that are in demand it is a struggle.

    Permie jobs have been like contractor jobs for 30 years. There is no much emphasis on long term potential and whether people can be trained, more on whether you can be productive from the start. It's not like it was 40 years ago. 

    There is also a marked slow down in hiring at the moment which will not help. It is not as bad as during the financial crisis when I got made redundant and it took a year to get 1 interview. But I seem to have been unlucky multiple times, or am perhaps not so good at selling myself.

    Sorry I don't have any good suggestions, it is just down to persistence.

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  • Your CV is doing ok if you are getting interviews. That is the point of the CV, to get through the filtering, get noticed and get you in front of someone.

    Then it comes down to being ok in the interviews, and how good the other candidates are. You can control the first one, not the second. Being confident, not too confident, and knowing something about the role and the company helps.

    Do you get any feedback on how you did?

    Have you had big gaps in your employment?

    Are you applying for the right level of job?  If you are too over qualified you may be able to do the job but not get it as they don't think you will stay.

    Could you try applying for some different types of job to see what would happen?

    Quite often people get jobs through their contacts, it is one of the main ways, since someone can put in a good word for you. Which is a big problem if you are isolated.

    As you get older you are supposed to emphasise your skills and knowledge, since you have examples from what you have done before. You know you as well as anyone else. You are also supposed to know something about what you are doing, so there is no real help.

    Unless you have spme skills that are in demand it is a struggle.

    Permie jobs have been like contractor jobs for 30 years. There is no much emphasis on long term potential and whether people can be trained, more on whether you can be productive from the start. It's not like it was 40 years ago. 

    There is also a marked slow down in hiring at the moment which will not help. It is not as bad as during the financial crisis when I got made redundant and it took a year to get 1 interview. But I seem to have been unlucky multiple times, or am perhaps not so good at selling myself.

    Sorry I don't have any good suggestions, it is just down to persistence.

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