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How to Find a Mentor When You Are a Career Changer Over 40
Episode 76 of The Career Mentor Podcast tackles a specific, high-stakes scenario: career changers over 40. Lucas and Luna unpack the unique challenges—age bias, salary compression, competing life commitments—and share actionable strategies like the 'two-step ladder' approach, tapping alumni networks for mid-career switchers, and reframing experience as a mentor magnet. They dissect a real case of a 47-year-old former teacher who pivoted to tech sales by finding a sponsor who valued her classroom leadership as equivalent to sales management. The episode doesn't sugarcoat the…
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