The oldest baby boomers start turning 65 on January 1st, and the biggest generation has plenty to worry about as it starts filing Medicare applications. The road to retirement security is filled with potholes. My list of the five threats to retirement security that worry me most looking ahead to 2011 is at Reuters.com. [...more]
What were the ten most popular stories on retirement in 2010? I checked the traffic data here at RetirementRevised, and–no surprise–the list of most-viewed stories reflect our hard times economy. The most-read stories focused on issues like Social Security benefits, 50+ job-hunting, saving money and improving cash flow. Here are the ten most viewed stories [...] [...more]
Workers who are unemployed for less than five weeks are three times more likely to find new jobs than those who have been out of work for longer periods, The New York Times reports today. The Times report is based on new data from the U.S. Department of Labor and found that “people out of [...] [...more]
60 Minutes offered a sobering look at the growing ranks of midlife unemployed workers cast out of high-paying professional occupations in Silicon Valley. The story underscores the desperate straights many find themselves in as their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits run out and competition for jobs remains extraordinary. Joblessness at age 50 or 60 carries [...] [...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]
