Finding your way through the maze of job hunting and making a living when you are older is quite a daunting task but there is a lot of help and advice out there to help you to navigate and explore options.
Know what your skills and experience base is .There are some good self assessment tools on the internet
although the people closest to you will often surprise you knowing skills you do not realise you have. I helped a neighbour looking for her first job after raising her children to identify her skills for putting on her CV, she was a mum who home schooled her daughter who had a school phobia and coped with an alcoholic husband.We looked at the skills a housewife has.
Consider doing some voluntary work to update or get new skills and build up evidence of experience via freelance work. You may be good at web design, telesales etc but not have a history of career experience and freelancing is a good way to build up experience
if you are still holding out on using social media ...then don't !! you need to get with it because social media is where it's happening.Some say that LinkedIn will replace the CV Others are not so sure about that but certainly many employers seeing your CV look you up on the web. Do however, be careful to protect your internet image....Take charge of your online reputation
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