There are four basic types of CVs or resumes. In this podcast we consider how you identify which one to use when applying for a job. What do you do about your age, experience and qualifications as an older worker? How do you deal with these in a resume? Do you hide that level of detail, flaunt it, or something else? In conversation with Matt Warzel.

If you are thinking of, or have just started your own business, then finding and retaining customers is fundamental to your success. Your digital marketing strategy will be at the core of how you brand yourself. In conversation with David Somerfleck who discusses the elements you must consider to be successful on-line.

You've built up a lifetime of skills, knowledge and experience and now you find yourself out of work for whatever reason. Others still want those skills and knowledge but how do you connect to them? There may now be a way. In conversation with Esther Hershcovich.

'If there is no wind then row.' Finding a new job as an older worker is hard at the best of times. The 50:50 project sets out to talk to 50 inspiring people who have found a job, retrained and/or started a new career. Find out what worked and what the pitfalls were. And, when we find some sort of normality again, great places to drink coffee.

The only English language podcast dedicated to job hunters in their 50s and 60s. I talk to experts from around the world, from eminent academics to career experts to those made unemployed and have found new roles.

All pro-bono, no adverts no affiliation with any organisations. No drama, no waffle. Facts, ideas, research, analysis and insights helping older workers find fulfilling employment wherever you live.

Older worker? Work for a corporate? In the best of times your career is almost certainly not as assured as you think it is let alone the circumstances the world finds itself in now. It is likely Toast. So what should you be thinking about and what could you be doing to prevent yourself getting burnt?

Do self help books help? Is there any empirical evidence to support authors' claims? What sort of books are there and do they draw any similar conclusions? Can your pet frog help you convince anyone of anything? Three self help books reviewed - a 'whole of life plan', empirically proven methods of improving your life and stories from real people who changed their career.

Older workers face discrimination in the work place, and older women face additional challenges. Whether you are in work, trying to re-enter after bringing up children, being a carer or following a divorce woman face additional obstacles. Dr Sarah Vickerstaff, Kent University (UK), discusses the issues and challenges woman face. And the difficult choices they are sometimes forced to make.

During 2019 I spoke to 7 experts and asked for their advice in finding a new job as an older worker. In this podcast I pull together those conversations; they talked about Plan B and working on a transition of career, using a resume writing service, effective engagement with recruitment agencies, a personal strategy to get back to work, the worth and value of volunteering, the first 90 days of a new job and, finally, self employment for the older worker.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.*

Jaded by the corporate sector you work in? Want to change the direction of your career? Want to do something more meaningful?

Wondering how to go about it? Working for companies that value sustainability.

Why these companies need older workers (and how to join them).

In conversation with Katie Secrist.

*Sir Winston Churchill