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]
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]
Age discrimination complaints have soared in recent years, but proving a case isn’t easy. Over Fifty and Out of Work has posted an informative video interview with Laurie McCann, senior litigation attorney at AARP, on the ins and outs of age discrimination cases. Laurie McCann from Over Fifty and Out of Work on Vimeo. [...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]
In 2005, there were 270,000 people over age 100 in the world–a figure the United Nations expects will explode to 2.3 million by 2040 due to gains in nutrition, health and healthcare. By that year, the U.S. Census Bureau expects the proportion of people over age 65 will more than double from 2008 levels, to [...] [...more]
