Most older job hunters are comfortable with basic business technology— computers, the Web, email and smart phones. But we still have some Luddites out there – you know who you are – trying to squeak by, hoping to finish their working years without getting fluent in technology. That’s especially true of social media tools like [...] [...more]
Working longer has been Retirement Plan B ever since the great crash of 2008. But for many workers, it’s now Plan A — and no Plan B is in sight. That’s the key finding from the 12th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey, which surveyed 4,080 American workers of all ages on their attitudes and expectations about [...] [...more]
In 2005, Deborah Ramsey was working as an administrator for a technology consulting firm that was undergoing restructuring, the tail end of a phase of her career that also included jobs in the banking and insurance industry. “A lot of people were being laid off or leaving. I had been through two big layoffs before, [...] [...more]
Susan Sipprelle has taken on a thankless task: documenting the pain inflicted by the Great Recession on older workers. An independent journalist and photographer, last fall Sipprelle launched Over Fifty and Out of Work, a website dedicated to telling the stories of jobless Americans from a wide array of backgrounds through video interviews. Their stories [...] [...more]
I visited recently with Lauren Young at Reuters to talk about my book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security: Practical Strategies for Money, Work and Living. We discussed the reinvention of retirement, working longer and the future of Social Security; here’s the video of our interview, along with a brief book excerpt and a [...] [...more]
