Jeff Winters
"OEC Speaks Out"
Jeff is the CEO of OurExperienceCounts.com. He has over 30 years experience in marketing and sales in technology industries. He founded and served as CEO at Innovative Robotics for 9 years. He has also held various senior management positions where he has demonstrated the ability to establish or revitalize businesses. While with VLSI Technology he setup and managed that company's Asian operations, which included three ASIC design centers. In three years revenues grew from less than $1 million to over $70 million annually. In addition to his work at OurExperienceCounts.com, he also serves as Chief Financial Officer at Borgata Recycling and also provides career counseling at ProMatch (a nationally recognized career counseling center for Silicon Valley professionals).
I like to tell them that it is not their circumstances or their challenges that define them. It’s how they react to these challenges that actually defines them. Being an older worker and waking up in the morning to another day without needing to hurry up your preparation so you can get to work on time can seem both strange and frightening. Sending out resume after resume and hearing nothing back can be disheartening and create a sense of hopelessness, but this is not a time to throw in the towel or to continue to keep doing what isn’t working. It’s time to get help and learn how to effectively compete with younger job applicants. It’s time to learn how to turn your age and experience into an asset instead of a liability.
If you came to this site because you are an experienced worker, I might have given a pretty good description of what is going on in your life, but OurExperienceCounts.com is here to help. Our staff has been in your shoes, but what makes us different is we are career coaches, HR executives, corporate trainers and former executives whose mission is to provide the training, support and encouragement necessary for us to compete and win that new job.
Mike Cassidy of the San Jose Mercury News called us a, “Lifeline for older workers,” in an article published on April 30th, 2010. It is our mission to empower you by teaching you the skills necessary for you to become your own career coach and hosting a social networking environment that will provide both support and encouragement. Mature workers have the experience and wisdom to help turn this economy around and together we can get back to work and get the job done.
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Login to Comment Comments:05/07/2010
Thanks Jeff for your insight. As a matter of fact after going through some of the comments I will be updating my resume and also my LinkedIn account next. It is quite the frustration to have run larger companies, owning a few smaller companies and having a wide range of experience in multi-modal formats of transportation, and not hear back from the many inquiries sent out on the Web. I mentioned to my wife that I spoke to a person who called about my experience and was told that over 400+ applications came in 'after' the screening took out the rest. When talking to some of the folks calling me, they are not even up to the basic acronym's that are used in the field, so I wonder how they determine who is the best next step candidate. Nevertheless the article was great that came out and look forward to navigating more and more than happy to assist anyone that I can with my own network in the transportation and logistics field as I stay pretty current. --- It makes me think back a few years where my wife and I, along with some of our church group were helping out a pretty highend assisted living home. I took the part of the mens group and found a great group of guys that held patents, developed various technologies and long story short were anywhere from inventors to CEO's. Each of them had something to offer and it really made me think and for sure now in my current situation that we have lost (and continue to loose) the skill levels of folks that were hands on to a new generation of outsourcing in many cases. -- Onward and Forward!!! thanks Mike Bowden b4189@comcast.net |
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