The systems screening your job application can detect your age — even if you never mention it. Here’s how ATS platforms filter out older applicants, and how to use AI to fight back.
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50 / Mental Health After 50
Losing Your Job After 50? You Need To Hear This.
Losing a job is never easy, but losing your career in your fifties or sixties is a different experience altogether. It is not just the loss of income […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Job Loss After 50
The Moment I Realised My Money Had a Deadline
Something new starting next week. Every Monday, I’m going to be reading your comments on camera and responding to them directly. The stories you’ve been sharing in the […]
Job Loss & Retirement
The ‘Wrong Market’ Trap: Are You Competing with 25-Year-Olds by Mistake?
You're sending applications into the void. Radio silence. Maybe an automated rejection three weeks later. Here's the uncomfortable truth: You might be fishing in the wrong pond. And […]
Job Loss & Retirement
AI-Proof Work: 7 Sectors Still Hiring Over-50 Experience in 2026
Everyone's talking about AI taking jobs. The headlines scream about automation, algorithms, and the end of human work as we know it. Here's what they're missing: some work […]
Job Loss & Retirement
“Consultant” vs. “Freelancer”: The $100/hr Difference in How You Pitch Yourself
Here's the uncomfortable truth: two people with identical skills and experience can charge wildly different rates for the same work. The difference isn't talent. It's positioning. If you're […]
Job Loss & Retirement
Only 24% of Over-50s Who Lose Their Job Ever Work Again
You spend 20, 30 years getting good at something. Building real expertise. Becoming the person everyone turns to when things get messy. And now? That very experience is […]
Job Loss & Retirement
The Double Squeeze: Why Experience and a Degree Aren't Shields Anymore
Today I want to talk about something that's catching millions of experienced professionals in a serious vice grip. If you're over 50 and you have a college degree, […]
Job Loss & Retirement / Mental Health After 50
Why LinkedIn Feels Like a Parallel Universe These Days
I opened LinkedIn this morning and was immediately greeted by someone celebrating their "incredible journey" from redundancy to "dream role" in just six weeks. Complete with a photo […]