SINGING FOR YOUR SUPPER IN RETIREMENT
Read Published Article By KERRY HANNON The song remains the same. You’re retired, but you’re working. You want to retire, but you keep on working. It doesn’t take a psychic to see that work is likely to become even more important in the lives of aging Americans. I’ve been tracking [...]
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LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE COMPANIES WITH THE MOST OLDER WORKERS
Read Published Article It never hurts to applaud companies that take a kind view towards older workers. Last week, Waltham, Mass.-based RetirementJobs.com, a web site for job-seekers age 50+, announced its rankings of Fortune 500 employers by their percentage of workers over age 50. The findings, pulled from public records and surveys of employers and employees, show the [...]
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NONPROFITS ARE HIRING: THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Read Published Article Nonprofit jobs have a certain cachet with boomers looking for a career shift. I hear it all the time from job seekers, and I get it. It’s a time in life where you’ve made the bucks, climbed the ladder, and so on. If you’re fortunate, an early retirement, or nice [...]
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KNOW A NEW COLLEGE GRADUATE? GREAT CAREER TIPS TO PASS ON
by Kerry Hannon The cap and gown are ready to go. How about the career plan? I’ve had well over a dozen e-mails from parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles the last few days asking me what advice I would give a new graduate facing the job world today. They have someone in their life graduating [...]
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THE BEST RETIREMENT PLANS FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED
Read Second Verse blog on Forbes.com By KERRY HANNON For the self-employed, even if the will to save for retirement is there, the way can be problematic. As the tax season rolls into its final few weeks, if you’ve made the transition to being your own boss last year, you still have time to ramp [...]
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TROUBLE ON THE HIGH SEAS OF RETIREMENT?
Read published Article An increasing number of workers are seriously worried they will not have enough money to retire comfortably, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute 2011 Retirement Confidence Survey that dropped today. The 1,004 workers were surveyed in January, when the stock market was going up and unemployment going down, so one might have imagined [...]
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LAST MINUTE TAX TIPS FOR JOB CHANGERS
Read Published Article There’s one for you, nineteen for me. ‘Cause I’m the taxman, Yeah, I’m the taxman. Taxes are not my bailiwick. They’re complicated and make me a little nervous and irritable. So as I pause to procrastinate and write this post, I confess I’m still pulling my personal 2010 material together for my [...]
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TOP 10 TIPS FOR JOB HUNTERS OVER 50
Read Published article “Spent some time feelin inferior, standing in front of my mirror,” sings Rod Stewart in his 1970s-era lyric. If you’re over 50 and looking for a job, feeling inferior isn’t so unusual. The truth is, I know a lot of people who feel like castoffs in today’s job market. [...]
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WHITE GLOVES, PARTY MANNERS, AND JOB INTERVIEW TIPS
Read pulbished Article Say it’s so. Forty-two percent of companies expect to increase hiring in the next six months, according to a quarterly survey conducted by the National Association for Business Economics released this week. ABC News reported that of the 35 leading economic experts their reporters interviewed, most said [...]
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BE YOUR OWN BOSS: 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Why not me? There is something intrinsic in the American spirit that makes the idea of being your own boss a dream worth fighting for. I work for myself. My brother does. My father did–on a much larger scale. I suspect one or two of my eight nephews and nieces will too. It gets you [...]
A collection of 65 essays that provides practical and entertaining advice about how to create a fulfilling retirement. The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to cancer research.
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