Indicator 1:
One woman I know well, has been looking for work for 2 years. She was transitioning from eduction to business…a [...]
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The big, big ship is starting to turn. After months of hopeful fits and starts, from this ground-eye perspective, the job market is starting to open up…just a bit. Anecdotal info:
Procrastinators rejoice — it’s not too late to enter the $5,000 Launch Pad contest! Civic Ventures has extended their deadline on the Launch Pad Contest. The mission is to find five people over the age of 45 who may need a bit of a financial boost and support structure to their business idea. If [...]
I have had an informal Google group running for a couple of years, but really have paid no attention to it. Over the past month a technical recruiter has been posting many technical openings all across the US. He is looking for people with skills ranging from Ruby on Rails, to PeopleSoft, to [...]
Hi all — I have a request from a major US newspaper. A top columnist is looking to interview folks who are at or near retirement about the challenges of looking for a job in this economy, even a part time job. He’s particularly interested in chatting with folks who had retired but [...]
CNN Money’s Fortune has a great columnist, Anne Fisher. In answering questions, she finds ways to pass along some great tidbits of helpful advice. Today’s column was a winner. A reader asked about the pros and cons of moving to find work in a different city. Her response was good and even-handed, but [...]
I subscribe to the newsletter put out by Weddle’s (a career consulting, research, and publishing firm), and today, a very good article caught my eye. This one is all about micro-careers. I’ve referred to the shiftin the past as “career-chunking”, but I like the term “micro-career” very much. The concept is simple — we will have [...]
Yesterday, about half a dozen readers sent me an article from the LA Times on how the job market is especially tough for the older worker. Receiving an enormous amount of emails over the past several years from over 50 jobseekers at their wits’ end over trying to find a job…well, it wasn’t [...]
The fact that I’m old enough to remember watching my friends lose homes in the mid-eighties is scary enough. But I wasn’t old enough then to understand global economic impact as I do now. There are currently about 25 million Americans out of work and looking for work. That is almost the population [...]
Times are SO tough. I get a lot of emails and questions from Boomers and 50 Plussers who, literally, are down to the pennies in the cookie jar in order to put food on the family table. I got a question yesterday that got to me. Not because it is any different than [...]
Every few weeks I get a very good question from a reader that gives me pause. This came in today:
Last year you very generously took the time to reply to a response I had …[which]… contained the following advice, “The industries that seem to be more open to 50 plussers are: education [...] |
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