Millions of older Americans are struggling to launch new careers as they cast aside traditional retirement. Civic Ventures, a non-profit think tank, has taken the lead in advocating that these second careers need to combine “passion, purpose and a paycheck,” and the group is offering an online seminar later this month that can help you [...] [...more]
Journalist Kerry Hannon is a specialist in careers, retirement and personal finance. For her latest book, What’s Next: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books, 2010), Kerry traveled the country interviewing people who’ve made successful career transitions at midlife-often into very colorful and happy new lives. The result is an indispensable guide [...] [...more]
Age discrimination in hiring is tough to prove, but it’s a widely-acknowledged reality. How can you beat age bias in a job interview? Executive recruiter Joe Turner offers advice on interview strategy in a very useful post at Encore.org that explains how to answer tricky questions designed to disqualify older applicants, such as: –Tell me [...] [...more]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Anna Quindlen will join Marc Freedman, founder of Civic Ventures, to discuss career reinvention on a free webcast this coming Thursday June 17th. The webcast will be moderated by former ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson and also will feature Daniel Gilbert, author of the best-seller Stumbling to Happiness. The discussion [...] [...more]
People are genuinely afraid of outliving their money in hard times, but solutions are available. I talked about longevity risk recently with Marci Alboher of Encore.org for a Q&A about my new book, The Hard Times Guide to Retirement Security. An American man turning age 65 in 1940-just a few years after Social Security was [...] [...more]
