Comments on: How To Write Your Resume to Overcome Age Bias http://www.EmploymentDigest.net/2007/12/how-to-write-your-resume-to-overcome-age-bias/ Career news for experienced executives and technologists... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Alexander Pawlowski III http://www.EmploymentDigest.net/2007/12/how-to-write-your-resume-to-overcome-age-bias/#comment-29616 Alexander Pawlowski III Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:21:16 +0000 http://www.employmentdigest.net/2007/12/how-to-write-your-resume-to-overcome-age-bias/#comment-29616 For better or worse, I have an accomplished 30-year career in banking; from commercial lender to Chief Marketing Officer and all points in between. I say ‘worse’ because once defined as a ‘banker,’ it is difficult to be viewed as anything but. This, in my opinion, is a career-limiter. I have also been an entrepreneur, with two business ventures undertaken over the years: one in organizational effectiveness consulting and the other in development of a sporting goods product, Golf Score™. Neither was sufficiently financially rewarding to have supported me to leave the banking arena, however. Personal self-fulfillment has come from community involvement over the years; serving as president of six different organizations, ranging from civic to non-profit, with an emphasis on economic development. Earlier I had received the honor of being named Man of the Year and County Citizen of the Year. My experience includes being the catalyst for creating new things: starting up a program to help less fortunate children to receive a Christmas gift (a 16 year endeavor of love), to creating and producing a premier business conference (in its sixth year, it is the largest, most successful regional event of its kind). In between, I created a national model of ‘Area Manager’ for a national bank that is still in existence today (some 17 years later). I also initiated the role Chief Marketing Officer for a smaller community bank, building the department from the ground up. My professional and personal track record has been to overcome challenge, facing it squarely and, more often than not, succeeding in a significant way. Having inherited four ‘turnaround’ assignments in my career, I can proudly point to sweeping successes in each instance. Creativity is what inspires me. Being a challenge player is what drives me. And so, how do I find myself in this situation? Unemployed for seven months? Unbelievable. For better or worse, I have an accomplished 30-year career in banking; from commercial lender to Chief Marketing Officer and all points in between. I say ‘worse’ because once defined as a ‘banker,’ it is difficult to be viewed as anything but. This, in my opinion, is a career-limiter.

I have also been an entrepreneur, with two business ventures undertaken over the years: one in organizational effectiveness consulting and the other in development of a sporting goods product, Golf Score™. Neither was sufficiently financially rewarding to have supported me to leave the banking arena, however.

Personal self-fulfillment has come from community involvement over the years; serving as president of six different organizations, ranging from civic to non-profit, with an emphasis on economic development. Earlier I had received the honor of being named Man of the Year and County Citizen of the Year.

My experience includes being the catalyst for creating new things: starting up a program to help less fortunate children to receive a Christmas gift (a 16 year endeavor of love), to creating and producing a premier business conference (in its sixth year, it is the largest, most successful regional event of its kind). In between, I created a national model of ‘Area Manager’ for a national bank that is still in existence today (some 17 years later). I also initiated the role Chief Marketing Officer for a smaller community bank, building the department from the ground up.

My professional and personal track record has been to overcome challenge, facing it squarely and, more often than not, succeeding in a significant way. Having inherited four ‘turnaround’ assignments in my career, I can proudly point to sweeping successes in each instance.

Creativity is what inspires me. Being a challenge player is what drives me.

And so, how do I find myself in this situation? Unemployed for seven months? Unbelievable.

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