A field guide & toolkit · $9.99 on Kindle

Written off is a feeling. Done is a choice.

Name: Written Off, Not Done
Author: Ali Levent Kilic

Age bias is real. So is a bad resume, a shrinking industry, and an interview you didn't prepare for. This book helps you tell the difference — then do something about whichever one you've actually got.

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15 chapters · 13 ready-to-use toolkits · every statistic named, dated, and sourced

Cover of Written Off, Not Done by Ali Levent Kilic

This book is for you if you've felt it — and you're done pretending you haven't.

64% of workers over 50 have witnessed or personally experienced age discrimination at work (AARP, 2025). 74% believe age is a barrier to getting hired. You didn't imagine it — but knowing it's real doesn't get you a job. Routing around it does.

The pause after you mention your graduation year.
The “wow, you've done a lot” tone that isn't admiration.
The rejection for a role you were objectively qualified for.
Six weeks of silence, then a 23-year-old asking if you're “comfortable with technology.”

Inside the book

Four parts. Fifteen chapters. Zero pep talks.

Every chapter ends with something you can use in the next hour — a script, a checklist, a worksheet. The goal is a job offer, not a mood boost.

The toolkit

Thirteen tools. Use them the day the book arrives.

Checklists, scripts, scorecards, and AI prompts — the same ones the author used in his own search, not theory from a coaching course.

About the author

Written from inside the search — not above it.

Ali Levent Kilic is a senior operations and infrastructure leader with 20+ years in energy-sector critical infrastructure — most recently a senior manager at a major pipeline operator, before a 2025 layoff put him back in the very job market this book is about.

He now runs CoreSync Global Consulting while pivoting toward operations and capital-projects roles in critical facilities, including data centers. Every tactic here — the resume rebuild, the keyword matching, the outreach scripts, the interview framing — comes from a search he ran himself: the ghosting, the assumptions, the reset. He wrote the guide he wishes he'd had on day one.

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They wrote you off. Show them the math.

Written Off, Not Done: a second-act field guide and toolkit for experienced job seekers. Coming soon to Amazon Kindle for $9.99.

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