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Older Workers Are Getting Hired in a Tough Job Market!
If you listen to some job reports, embarking on a job hunt in today’s market is not only challenging for the average job seeker, but also downright daunting if you are over 50. Those odds, seemingly ranging from slim to none, have many workers 50… Read more
The New Normal: Employee, Consultant and back again
The New Normal: Employee, Consultant and back again by Kate Wendleton For decades, we have been reminding clients that all positions are temporary. You may receive a W-2 at year-end, a 1099, or both—but no work you do is permanent. Sometimes, a… Read more
Is Age Discrimination the Problem?
by David Madison, Ph.D., Director, The National Guild of Five O’Clock Club Career Coaches In 1993, a Five O’Clock Clubber was featured on the cover of Modern Maturity magazine. The title was “Job Hunting After 50.” This seven-page article… Read more
Making Full Use of the Maturing Workforce
By: Marian Stoltz-Loike, PhD With David Madison, PhD I n the decades following World War II, the nation experienced one of the greatest population explosions in U.S. history. There are 76 million ‘baby boomers,’ i.e., people born between 1945… Read more
Job Search After 50
Tapping a Valuable Resource by Kate Wendleton Fifty isn’t as old as it used to be. The average American today is living 29 years longer than the average American did at the turn of the last century-but those years are being tacked on to middle… Read more
What Longevity Means to Your Career
by Lydia Bronte, author of The Longevity Factor In every era there have been a few people who lived to be unusually old, but who kept working—and were still good at what they did. We all know that Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall continued to paint… Read more
The Old Gray Mares They’re Better Than They Used to Be
Kate Wendleton, President Fifty isn’t as old as it used to be. Bill and Hillary are over 50; Jane Fonda is turning 60! The average American today is living 29 years longer than the average American did a century ago—but those years… Read more
Landing Good Jobs After 50; Successful Five O’Clock Clubbers Share Their Stories
by David Madison, Ph.D. “Beauty and youth are no match for age and stealth.” T-shirt slogan in the 1990s Much has been made of the youth-oriented culture of our time, and not a few mass circulation magazines have bemoaned the “plight” of the… Read more
Younger Bosses, Older Workers
-by Kate Wendleton (Note: Kate recently appeared on the Today Show about this topic.) When I was a young computer programmer in the mid-1970s, I supervised a group of older males, a number of whom were in their mid-50s. They were smart and funny… Read more