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Working? Job Hunting? Listen Up in a Down Economy!!!
By Dr. Deborah Dempesy
Five Tips for Hearing and Looking Your Best
When it comes to working and job interviews, how you hear affects how you look.
You walk into the job interview. Your hair is groomed. Your skin is smooth. You’re wearing your best interview suit. Dahhling, you look fabulous, right?
Not necessarily. What happens when you sit down and the interviewer starts asking you a question and you suddenly realize you can’t really hear what she’s saying? Now you lean in, furrow your brows, and hunch your shoulders. You scrunch up your eyes and strain with all your might to hear your best.
How do you look now?
Unfortunately, the interviewer may see you in a different light. Now she’s wondering why you look so uncomfortable. She’s noticing the confidence slip from your face. And she’s thinking maybe she needs to keep interviewing others.
In the United States, approximately 31.5 million Americans have hearing loss, and that includes 3 out of 10 people over the age of 59, according to the Better Hearing Institute.
With today’s down economy, many of these seniors either need to postpone retirement or return to work. Sixty percent of workers over the age of 60 are postponing retirement due to the impact of the financial crisis on their long-term savings, according to a recent CareerBuilder/USA Today national survey of employers.
And those re-entering the workforce are competing against younger workers eager to scoop up the jobs.
Excellent listening skills are ranked high by employers as desirable job attributes. Fully seventy-three percent of employers surveyed by ACT, a leading college and workforce planning organization, ranked listening as “extremely important” job skills.
So, while people may feel that to look young they can’t be seen wearing a hearing device, they are much more likely to be perceived as old and less capable if they ignore their hearing needs and are unable to be effective listeners.
Before going in for an interview, follow these 5 tips:
• Take the free, easy, online hearing check offered by All Ears Hearing Center at www.allearshearing.net.
• If you think you may have hearing loss, see a hearing health professional immediately to get your hearing tested.
• If you have a hearing loss that can be treated with hearing aids – and 95% of hearing losses can be improved with hearing aids – get fitted for them.
• Start wearing your hearing aids immediately, and see what a difference they make.
• Then, go into the interview confident in your hearing and listen-up! The job is yours.
Dr. Deborah Dempesy
Dr. Dempesy obtained her Masters in Audiology at Northwestern University in Evanston IL in 1982. She received her Doctorate in Audiology at the Salus University (previously known as The Pennsylvania College of Optometry and Audiology) in Pennsylvania in 2007. Dr. Dempesy worked with developmentally delayed hearing-impaired children in the Chicago area for two years from 1980-1982, moved back to her home state of Massachusetts and was Clinical Director of Audiology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital for 14 years. She consulted, performing research with manufacturers of hearing devices and volunteered on the Massachusetts Infant Hearing Screening Task Force until a law was passed that required all infants to have their hearing screened before discharge from the hospital or birthing clinic.
Dr. Dempesy has been a board member of the Massachusetts Academy of Audiology, volunteering her time to continue quality education of audiologists in the Massachusetts area.
Recently Dr. Dempesy worked for a major hearing device manufacturer, providing training and education on new technology to audiologists in the New England area. The combination of these experiences gives her an exceptionally well-rounded perspective that she passes on to her patients.
In addition, Dr. Dempesy is a member of the American Academy of Audiology, The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Tinnitus Association, Educational Audiology Association and the Aural Rehabilitation Association. She is licensed to practice as an audiologist in the state of Massachusetts.
Personally, Dr. Dempesy’s immediate family consists of her partner and 23 year old daughter. In her free time, Dr. Dempesy loves to ocean kayak, run, rock climb, hike, read, watch movies and spend time with her sisters, brother and parents in western Massachusetts.
All Ears Hearing Center, Inc.
59 Industrial Park
Plymouth, MA 02360
www.allearshearing.net
(508) 747-4055 (800) 649-4054 (617) 510-5254
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