Comments on: Getting Too Old? Dye Your Hair Before The Interview!

By: rosalinda

rosalinda — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:26:07 +0000

I am a woman in my fiftys and 15 months ago stopped dyeing my hair now I have been satisfied up to now.Then looked in the mirror and thought I need a lift as I was all silver now.So had a speak to my hairdressetr and she put some caramel highlights in and gave it a good cut and hey presto I felt a million dollars,and it does look good.So I think it is up to how you feel and how you want to present your self ,great subject Jason.

By: kiralama

kiralama — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:42:09 +0000

Ok no one has mentioned white hair. At 55 I have alot of white hair and some grey. Last year while searching for a job I felt very discriminated against. Wisdom and experience does come with age. If a person can give an employer 10+ years that should be considered great. Hire the young and ambitious and find them gone in just a few years.

By: teÅŸvik belgesi

teÅŸvik belgesi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:43:28 +0000

By: Kay Stout

Kay Stout — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:32:32 +0000

Jason,

The older crowd will get hired (or rehired) if they do a few simple things. 1) Do not get grouchy – I’m serious. As a career advisor for more than 20 years, I’m amazed at the number of people who get really cranky as they age. No one is going to hire someone who is cranky!!! 2) Be very comfortable navigating around a computer. I tell people if you can drive a car, you should be comfortable with the computer and internet. (You do not need to know how a car runs – - you just need to know how to drive it – - the same applies to a computer). 3) Always, always, always be aware of new opportunities and/or a downturn at your present place of employment. Listen to the water cooler rumor mill – - it usually has some truth buried in with all the gossip. 4) Accept the new gravitational law of employment – - you will change companies 5 or more times during your career

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:44:46 +0000

@iso

Hire the young and ambitious and find them gone in just a few years.

I think there are going to be a lot of issues with Gen Y (or, the young and ambitious) that we are going to see… and the impact it will have on the older crowd getting (re)hired is going to be very interesting over the next few years.

By: iso belgesi

iso belgesi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:58:02 +0000

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:27:09 +0000

This has been excellent dialog – thanks to all who have contributed, and hopefully this helps people as they move forward on this decision. I think it’s fair to say that some important things to consider include:

1. Is this going to help you be more confident and have a better self image? Go ahead and do it.

2. Make sure you do it professionally, even by someone who is a pro at coloring hair.

3. It may be a benefit to have gray hair… maybe YOU can make that a benefit!

4. This is NOT an age or gender issue.

5. The whole issue, with regard to employability and discrimination (not necessarily vanity or personal self-worth/image) just plain SUCKS. It’s too bad this is even an issue, although I still believe that we aren’t going to get over it anytime soon (in other words, the discrimination isn’t going to go away).

6. Jason Alba will go bald before he goes gray, probably, and he isn’t really happy about that, but oh well. Que sera, sera!

By: scientist

scientist — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:17:48 +0000

Some people look o.k. with the gray. Some do not. (I am one of them.) As for natural looking hair color, most women use highlights and that is obviously not natural. Men in California get highlights too. It’s a form of sculpture. It’s not meant to look natural. I have my hair colored the natural color I had when I was young. In the Southwest, I had highlights, just like everybody else. The sun bleached out the highlights and my hair. There are regional variations. People in the Southwest are going to have a lot of blonde streaks in their hair when temperature outside is 110 degrees and one is at the pool every evening.

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By: Paul Copcutt

Paul Copcutt — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:02:07 +0000

So lets take the other end of the spectrum for a second – what if a 30 ish person walks in to an interview with green, or blue or red hair – what are the thoughts and perceptions then?

In a time when we are all making faster decisions (not always right ones of course!), digesting information in bite sizes and forming opinions of people before we even meet them the first impression is becoming more critical.

As I talk on personal branding the question of image is coming up more and more, and the image consultants I know are getting busier – so it must be playing on the minds of the candidates and the corporations who hire (a lot of the image work is now paid for by the employer). The general rule of thumb with image is what makes you feel comfortable AND is relevant to your target audience. Hard to ask the target audience ahead of time as to their reaction of hair colours and dyes I know.

For those interested in hearing more on this subject I am hosting a panel of image ocnsultants at 9 pm EST on Thursday November 8th as part of the global Personal Branding Summit – more detaisl can be found at http://www.personalbrandingsummit.com

Just my toonies worth