Many companies and federal agencies offer a way to ease out of the work you love and into the next phase of your life formerly called retirement. A phased retirement strategy offers flexibility. As you approach your retirement age or time in service you can reduce your work hours or work in a different capacityContinue reading “Phased Retirement – Make Your Case”
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Courageous Career Conversation
Having a tough time at work? Do you see yourself in any of these scenarios: You are having more disagreements with your boss and or team mates. You aren’t getting the assignments or work that you want; You see others getting more opportunities. You’ve ‘paid your dues’ and now just want to do your job.Continue reading “Courageous Career Conversation”
Strategies for Extended Unemployment
What are they thinking?! Why are companies shunning people who have been out of work six months or more? Unemployment biases stem from employers desire to avoid making hiring mistakes. This avoidance leads to making assumptions that may or may not be based in fact. Four assumptions I’ve heard are: “If others don’t hire you,Continue reading “Strategies for Extended Unemployment”
Key Job Search Strategy – Volunteer!
The Corporation for National and Community Service has released new research,“Volunteering as a Pathway to Employment,” which provides the most compelling empirical research to date establishing an association between volunteering and employment in the United States. The results of this study suggest a statistically significant and highly stable association between volunteering and employment. Volunteers haveContinue reading “Key Job Search Strategy – Volunteer!”
Where the Jobs are for Mature Workers
With generous support from the MetLife Foundation, the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) has worked with seven regions across to country to identify priority industries, examine the job and career opportunities in those industries, and highlight the opportunities that are most appropriate for mature workers. Based on a U.S. Department of Labor supportedContinue reading “Where the Jobs are for Mature Workers”
A Crystal Ball – Skills for Now and the Future
A research report from Apollo Research Institute gives us a crystal ball for looking towards 2020. “Future Work Skills 2020” I like the way this report takes the major global trends and matches them with the skills workers need to thrive now and going forward. Its very useful for the many people needing to re-skill,Continue reading “A Crystal Ball – Skills for Now and the Future”
New Course for Career Professionals Working with Mature Job Seekers
Marvin Adams and I have teamed up to create a professional development course for career professionals, “Winning Strategies for the Mature Job Seeker,” at CEUOnestop. This self-paced, online course looks at the unique issues that older clients face as more and more people are looking for work. Career professionals will find information, resources and links toContinue reading “New Course for Career Professionals Working with Mature Job Seekers”
While You’re Unemployed…
Jacqueline Smith has compiled a great Top 10-things-you-need-to-do-while-youre-unemployed I wanted to share with you. If you do nine out of 10 of these, you won’t need to work for someone else!
Critical Skills for our Future
The more I learn, the more I need to learn. And it doesn’t all take place in a formal educational setting. As I watch our global economy and read Freidman’s latest book, “That Used To Be Us,” it is clear that the Knowledge Sets are shifting. Employers need people with the technical skills toContinue reading “Critical Skills for our Future”
Learn to Learn
When I keep doing what I always do, why do I think it will have a different result? This bit of insanity applies to many aspects of our lives. But let’s look at just one. We do our jobs well and manage the constant winds of change. Like a sailing a boat we know howContinue reading “Learn to Learn”