How to find a job on the Internet for a pensioner

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Pension in our state is a perverted mockery of the social system. You also need work to live. But retirees are most often invited to the jobs with the lowest wages. What if you look for a job on the Internet?

An employer often needs a person with mutually exclusive characteristics: young, energetic, but at the same time with great experience, a desire to adapt to the current job and the team. However, as practice shows, retirees are often better suited for a wide variety of jobs: they have more experience, time and knowledge.

The older generation has several other strong traits: excellent logical thinking, the ability to see cause-and-effect relationships and rely only on their own strengths without looking at the Internet and modern trends like "break down - throw it away." You just need to believe in yourself and start searching, and they will definitely be crowned with success.

What is required

Computer skills

An obligatory skill will be not only the ability to turn on and off the PC, but also work in office suites, process photos and pictures, google and browse sites, install programs. If necessary, it is worth tightening up your typing skills on the keyboard. All this can be mastered by yourself or with the help of relatives and friends. But you can turn to the state free computer training program.

You need to install and learn how to use Skype and other messengers on your home computer. It is imperative to create a mailbox and one of the electronic wallets, for example PayPal or Yandex. Money.

If you have special skills, you will have to master the corresponding software packages. For engineers, you need at least minimal skills in working with AutoCAD or Compass (by the way, it is very easy to teach how to work in the latter program using the built-in course), for photographers or designers - the corresponding Adobe packages. The list is almost limitless. You need to understand: the more rare a skill, the more difficult it is to find a job and the more you need to invest in learning a computer. And the higher the salary will be.

Summary

It is better if it is created not just in text form, but according to one of the unspoken standards of our time: in the form of a LinkedIn profile, interactive graphic resumes, or at least the standard HeadHunter form.

The difference with young people will be only in the desired level of income and vacancies for search. Unfortunately, the first ones will have to give up a little and set a lower desired salary than the market average. At least for the first time.

What to search

Very often, companies need instructors. There are enough good programming teachers now. But many humanities and natural sciences remain without specialists. Cramming (a stone in the kitchen garden of the Unified State Exam) does not give anything, you need an understanding of the subject, and teachers with experience are now in the price.

If you are able to clearly and quickly enough express your thoughts in print, you can try your hand at being a highly specialized copywriter or author of student papers. Almost everyone can try themselves in this area - from a doctor to a salesperson, because people with extensive experience have something to tell about.

Those who do not go into their pockets for a word can try themselves in the field of naming (coming up with names), working on poems and slogans. And here, too, it is better to start by performing small tasks on a freelance exchange, gradually building up a resume and positive feedback from employers.

Much easier for photography lovers: if you have a digital camera (which is easy to master) and high-quality pictures, it is enough to register on photo stocks and upload your work there. They also bring money.

You can do it in another way: create your own website or blog and write in it about what is interesting for yourself (of course, it is desirable that it be interesting for readers as well). If, at the same time, register on social networks and write (rewrite) materials in suitable communities, sooner or later there will be a sufficient number of readers. And then advertising on the blog will begin to bring tangible income.

Another option could be a vacancy for a technical support employee, online consultant, or administrator. Significant experience of communicating with people will be a huge advantage: many people learn patience and tact for years. Age is not a hindrance here.

For those who have anything to do with finance, audit or law, it is even easier. At the moment, there are many organizations offering their services to companies that cannot afford to maintain their own specialists in these specialties. So it is worth taking a closer look at the proposals of such agencies.

The most difficult thing to find remote work, perhaps, is engineers and representatives of blue-collar specialties. Despite their shortage in all spheres of production, remote control is still not widespread enough even among designers and architects. You can consider the implementation of student work, including on paper (sometimes such options slip through). However, occasionally there are more interesting tasks: designing devices and buildings, working on technical documentation (vacancy of a technical writer).

The last one discussed in this article will be the mentor vacancy. Nowadays, the Japanese production system is gaining great popularity, in which one of the most important roles is played by consultants - retirees with vast experience and work experience. You can send potential employers a job offer as a consultant, not forgetting to attach the most detailed resume. It won't be easy, but the results will pay off.

Where to look

First of all, on all kinds of freelance exchanges, for example:

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In addition, vacancies for remote work are also found on ordinary recruiting sites:

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And don't forget about dedicated sites and social media communities.

How to search

As a first attempt at finding a job, you need to look at the available vacancies for remote work. If nothing suitable was found, there is no reason to be discouraged. Unfortunately, searching for a job on the Internet is quite a chore, especially without a resume. If there is an opportunity to show your work in any way, you need to do it: digitize, photograph, indicate additional achievements.

If you managed to find a suitable vacancy for working on a full-time basis in the office, it still makes sense to send your resume with the postscript “Remote work only”. And indicate at the same time the salary is lower than the market average. Videoconferences have not been canceled, and cooperation may well take place.

Unfortunately, despite certain advantages of pensioners over young specialists, the issue of their employment on the Internet is still very difficult. What solutions could you suggest to the problem?