You can find profitable, fulfilling work after 50!
Kerry Hannon’s national bestseller, AARP's Great Jobs for Everyone 50+, has become the job-hunting bible for people in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. With her no-nonsense style, Hannon shows where the opportunities are and how to get them.
In this completely revised edition, Hannon offers twice as many jobs and brand-new material to market your skills in today’s job market, with expert tips on revamping a résumé, networking, interviewing like a pro, building a social media platform to stand out in the crowd, and much more. Whether you took early retirement, were laid off, seek a job that you will love, need supplemental income, or want to stay engaged and make a difference by giving back with your talents, Hannon’s book is an essential tool.
The truth is that many companies are looking for candidates with your experience, expertise, and maturity. The trick is finding those employers—and going into your search with a positive attitude and realistic expectations. With this completely updated Great Jobs, you’ll avoid common job-seeking mistakes and find your ideal employment in today’s landscape.
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Investor’s Business Daily: Kerry’s Advice on Best Places To Work Part-Tim
By kerry on April 1, 2015
Whether it’s to spend more time with the grandkids, cut down on stress or slowly phase into retirement, more and more folks in their 50s and 60s choose to pursue part-time jobs with the goal of semiretiring. For those who are retiring, it’s also a way to supplement their income in retirement and remain socially […]
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Kerry’s Expert Advice on Bankrate.com: 7 Steps to a Successful Encore Career
Kerry’s Expert Advice on Bankrate.com: 7 Steps to a Successful Encore Career
By kerry on February 28, 2015
It’s little wonder that baby boomers are flocking to second careers, 60 being the new 40 and all. But don’t rush into “You 2.0” until you determine if it’s your best move financially. In addition to crunching the numbers before you punch out of your current job, there are a handful of less obvious considerations […]
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Getting the Most Out of Online Job Websites
By kerry on March 11, 2014
If you’ve been job hunting in recent years, chances are you’ve tapped into one of the many online job boards. You probably created an account, uploaded your résumé, and even connected with some of your professional contacts. Yet if you haven’t visited these sites in a while, you might want to check back because some […]
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Expert Interview with Retire-To
Expert Interview with Retire-To
By kerry on November 3, 2013
Listen to Ed Zinkiewicz’s interview with Kerry about Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ and working after retirement.
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Kerry’s Tips on CNBC: Where the Summer Job Market Is Heating Up
Kerry’s Tips on CNBC: Where the Summer Job Market Is Heating Up
By kerry on May 11, 2013
It’s that time again—time for fresh faced youth to take their spots behind fast food counters, in stores and on lifeguard chairs. The summer job market is upon us, and the good news is that there are likely to be more openings. The most recent annual summer jobs survey by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found […]
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Jobs That Make People Feel and Look Good
Jobs That Make People Feel and Look Good
By kerry on April 3, 2013
If you take to heart the age-old advice that it feels good when you make someone else feel better, you might just want to consider one of these five jobs. They offer flexible hours and can be on a full- or part-time basis. More important, the majority of these fields are expected to see from […]
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Kerry’s Tips on May’s Tips on Market Watch: Boomers changing careers? Avoid these 8 mistakes
By kerry on January 23, 2013
The urge to switch careers can strike older workers for a variety of reasons—an unexpected job loss, fear about dimming prospects in their current industry, or simply a yen for change—but there are pitfalls of which to be wary. Certainly, one mistake is to rush the decision. If you have the luxury of time—that is […]
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Kerry and Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ in The Washington Post: When work still beckons
Kerry and Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ in The Washington Post: When work still beckons
By kerry on January 12, 2013
By Michelle Singletary What if you’re nearing retirement age and can’t stand the thought of leaving the workforce? What are your choices? Kerry Hannon, author of “Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy . . . and Pays the Bills,” is on a mission to help people find good and fulfilling retirement […]
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Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ and Kerry in Rappahannock News
Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ and Kerry in Rappahannock News
By kerry on January 5, 2013
For many people, the thought of getting older sparks fears of potential job discrimination, retirement uncertainty, as well as aches and pains. But for three part-time Rappahannock County residents who are 50-plus years old – Kerry Hannon, Beverly Jones and Elizabeth Isele – getting older is an exciting process that opens up many new opportunities. […]
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CNBC: Six Boomer Jobs to Ride the Ave Wave
CNBC: Six Boomer Jobs to Ride the Ave Wave
By kerry on December 2, 2012
What’s next for you? How about a job that lets you ride the so-called “Age Wave?” Careers in working with an aging population have become increasingly popular with those age 50 and older who are looking for a second career. By 2050, about one in five Americans will be over age 65, up from 13 percent […]
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You can find profitable, fulfilling work after 50!
Kerry Hannon’s national bestseller, AARP's Great Jobs for Everyone 50+, has become the job-hunting bible for people in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. With her no-nonsense style, Hannon shows where the opportunities are and how to get them.
Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy
In this completely revised edition, Hannon offers twice as many jobs and brand-new material to market your skills in today’s job market, with expert tips on revamping a résumé, networking, interviewing like a pro, building a social media platform to stand out in the crowd, and much more. Whether you took early retirement, were laid off, seek a job that you will love, need supplemental income, or want to stay engaged and make a difference by giving back with your talents, Hannon’s book is an essential tool.
The truth is that many companies are looking for candidates with your experience, expertise, and maturity. The trick is finding those employers—and going into your search with a positive attitude and realistic expectations. With this completely updated Great Jobs, you’ll avoid common job-seeking mistakes and find your ideal employment in today’s landscape.
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Kerry Hannon’s national bestseller, AARP's Great Jobs for Everyone 50+, has become the job-hunting bible for people in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. With her no-nonsense style, Hannon shows where the opportunities are and how to get them.
In this completely revised edition, Hannon offers twice as many jobs and brand-new material to market your skills in today’s job market, with expert tips on revamping a résumé, networking, interviewing like a pro, building a social media platform to stand out in the crowd, and much more. Whether you took early retirement, were laid off, seek a job that you will love, need supplemental income, or want to stay engaged and make a difference by giving back with your talents, Hannon’s book is an essential tool.
Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy ... And Pays the Bills—Updated Edition
The truth is that many companies are looking for candidates with your experience, expertise, and maturity. The trick is finding those employers—and going into your search with a positive attitude and realistic expectations. With this completely updated Great Jobs, you’ll avoid common job-seeking mistakes and find your ideal employment in today’s landscape.
Kerry Hannon - Great Jobs for People 50+ Book Trailer
Watch Kerry Hannon's book trailer about Great Jobs for People 50.
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GREAT JOBS FOR EVERYONE 50+: Get a comprehensive how-to guide to finding profitable, fulfilling work after 50 in a tough economy, difficult job market.
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Investor’s Business Daily: Kerry’s Advice on Best Places To Work Part-Time
Whether it’s to spend more time with the grandkids, cut down on stress or slowly phase into retirement, more and more folks in their 50s and 60s choose to pursue part-time jobs with the goal of semiretiring. For those who are retiring, it’s also a way to supplement their income in retirement and remain socially […]
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Kerry’s Expert Advice on Bankrate.com: 7 Steps to a Successful Encore Career
Kerry’s Expert Advice on Bankrate.com: 7 Steps to a Successful Encore Career
By kerry on February 28, 2015
It’s little wonder that baby boomers are flocking to second careers, 60 being the new 40 and all. But don’t rush into “You 2.0” until you determine if it’s your best move financially. In addition to crunching the numbers before you punch out of your current job, there are a handful of less obvious considerations […]
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Getting the Most Out of Online Job Websites
Getting the Most Out of Online Job Websites
By kerry on March 11, 2014
If you’ve been job hunting in recent years, chances are you’ve tapped into one of the many online job boards. You probably created an account, uploaded your résumé, and even connected with some of your professional contacts. Yet if you haven’t visited these sites in a while, you might want to check back because some […]
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Expert Interview with Retire-To
Expert Interview with Retire-To
By kerry on November 3, 2013
Listen to Ed Zinkiewicz’s interview with Kerry about Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ and working after retirement.
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Kerry’s Tips on CNBC: Where the Summer Job Market Is Heating Up
Kerry’s Tips on CNBC: Where the Summer Job Market Is Heating Up
By kerry on May 11, 2013
It’s that time again—time for fresh faced youth to take their spots behind fast food counters, in stores and on lifeguard chairs. The summer job market is upon us, and the good news is that there are likely to be more openings. The most recent annual summer jobs survey by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found […]
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Continue reading →
Jobs That Make People Feel and Look Good
Jobs That Make People Feel and Look Good
By kerry on April 3, 2013
If you take to heart the age-old advice that it feels good when you make someone else feel better, you might just want to consider one of these five jobs. They offer flexible hours and can be on a full- or part-time basis. More important, the majority of these fields are expected to see from
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Kerry’s Tips on Market Watch: Boomers changing careers? Avoid these 8 mistakes
By kerry on January 23, 2013
The urge to switch careers can strike older workers for a variety of reasons—an unexpected job loss, fear about dimming prospects in their current industry, or simply a yen for change—but there are pitfalls of which to be wary. Certainly, one mistake is to rush the decision. If you have the luxury of time—that is […]
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Kerry and Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ in The Washington Post: When work still beckons
Kerry and Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ in The Washington Post: When work still beckons
By kerry on January 12, 2013
By Michelle Singletary What if you’re nearing retirement age and can’t stand the thought of leaving the workforce? What are your choices? Kerry Hannon, author of “Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy . . . and Pays the Bills,” is on a mission to help people find good and fulfilling retirement […]
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Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ and Kerry in Rappahannock News
Great Jobs For Everyone 50+ and Kerry in Rappahannock News
By kerry on January 5, 2013
For many people, the thought of getting older sparks fears of potential job discrimination, retirement uncertainty, as well as aches and pains. But for three part-time Rappahannock County residents who are 50-plus years old – Kerry Hannon, Beverly Jones and Elizabeth Isele – getting older is an exciting process that opens up many new opportunities. […]
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CNBC: Six Boomer Jobs to Ride the Ave Wave
CNBC: Six Boomer Jobs to Ride the Ave Wave
By kerry on December 2, 2012
What’s next for you? How about a job that lets you ride the so-called “Age Wave?” Careers in working with an aging population have become increasingly popular with those age 50 and older who are looking for a second career. By 2050, about one in five Americans will be over age 65, up from 13 percent […]
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Job security, several benefits and not so demanding…really? Get the true picture.
The Uttar Pradesh government secretariat recently received applications from postgraduates and Ph.D holders in response to a notification of vacancies of peon. This was even before the criticism evoked by the news of B.Techs and MBAs applying for the post of security guards died. Why is there so much craze for government jobs?
A few days ago, I was talking to a group of fresh graduates — engineers and MBAs. I asked them about their dream job and was surprised when they said that they prefer any government job, especially a in a State government organisation. They would settle for a private job only if they don’t get through the recruitment process for government organisations and PSUs!
That set me thinking about job preferences some 20 years ago. Those days, job-seekers were desperate to join large private corporations and MNCs. With so many young talented professionals eager to work with them, many pharma, retail, IT and ITeS companies, met their expansion goals and are still flourishing. But now, the scenario in the job market seems to have reversed completely.
The reason behind this new-found craze for government jobs is a misconception in the minds of today’s youth. They are under a false impression that a government job is ‘not demanding’, ‘has no targets’ and ‘provides a lot of benefits’. Most of all, it comes with ‘job security’, even though the pay is low compared to a job in the private sector.
Well, the reality is different. Let us see how.
Myth 1: The pay and benefits of a government job always score over those of private jobs.
At entry-level, State government jobs pay the best salaries, not the lowest. Recently, we did a project with the Department of Post on recruitment for the positions of postman and mail guard. Minimum education criterion for the posts was Class X or XII. The salary was up to Rs. 20,000!
When it comes to ‘other benefits’, like a maternity benefit or a medical benefit, government organisations clearly score over the private sector. This is absolutely true.
Now, let us look at the downside of the government job in terms of salary and other benefits.
Salaries in government organisations are attractive only at the entry-level. As years roll, what a government employee earns along with the ‘benefits’ he enjoys, is far less than what his private counterpart gets.
A competent employee, working in a private company, can move up to the level of AVP or VP within 15 years. However, an employee in a government organisation, in 15 years, may become a senior clerk or superintendent, earning just one-third of what an employee in a private organisation earns. So, a job that provides attractive salary today will become a liability within 10- 15 years. Competent employees get frustrated when their merit is not recognised and duly rewarded.
A career in the private sector may be tough in the initials stages, but over a period, it earns good rewards for those who are worth it.
Government jobs are less demanding, have no targets and are ‘permanent’.
Government jobs are no longer cushy as they used to be once. The government is working on deliberate policies to deal with non-performers. In fact, following instructions from Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha that called for a review of non-performing officers, the Department of Personnel and Training has already come up with detailed guidelines to deal with non-performers and officers of doubtful integrity. This means, now, government employees not performing their duties duly, misbehaving and taking work casually can no longer hold on to their jobs.
On the other hand, unlike earlier, the government is creating contractual roles, based on human resource necessary for a specific project. For example, the Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society hired personnel for positions ranging from social worker to a director on contract basis. So, not all government jobs will be ‘permanent’ anymore. In addition, the government is considering outsourcing some of the jobs to the private sector.
Jobs in government and private sectors come with their advantages and disadvantages. Job seekers must choose based on their risk-appetite.
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Noting that it was not possible to provide jobs to all in a country of 125 crore people, BJP president Amit Shah said on Friday that the Narendra Modi government had tackled the problem of unemployment by promoting self-employment.
Taking a swipe at opposition parties over their charge of a “jobless” growth, Shah said that had they paid attention to such figures during the UPA government, they would not have suffered defeat in successive elections.
At present, there was no accurate mechanism to estimate unemployment figures, he said.
“We have tried to give new perspective to employment as it is not possible to provide employment to everyone in a country of 125 crore people. We are promoting self-employment and the government has made eight crore people self-employed,” he told reporters.
He was addressing the media on the third anniversary of the Modi government.
The BJP chief said the Modi government had laid the foundation of a “new India” as he described it as a decisive and transparent dispensation which had achieved what past governments could not since Independence.
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“In 2014, the BJP replaced a government suffering from policy paralysis and gave people a decisive and transparent government,” Shah said.
The BJP-led government has finished politics of casteism, dynasty and appeasement and has raised the self-confidence and pride of the country on global level, he said.
Attacking the opposition, Shah said they were working to corner the government while it was working to develop the country.
On Kashmir, Shah said the government was monitoring the situation very closely.
“We will control and find a solution soon,” he added.
Highlighting the Modi government’s flagship schemes, Shah said in last three years scores of villages were provided electricity which had been in dark since Independence.
Toilets have been constructed in more than 4.5 crore houses, ‘jan dhan’ accounts opened with zero balance, gas connections provided in two crore households, he said.
Speaking at length about the government’s schemes, Shah gave the slogan of “sath hai, vishwas hai, ho raha vikas hai” (with us, with trust, working for development).
Sharing the social initiatives of the government, the BJP president said the government had given constitutional status to the OBC commission for empowerment of backward classes and distributed various assistive devices for disabled persons across the country.
Speaking on the country’s economy, Shah said India was today the fastest growing economy in the world.
On the demand of ex-servicemen for ‘one rank, one pension’ (OROP), he said, “The demand for ‘one rank, one pension’ fell on deaf ears (for years), but we fulfilled that promise.”
Referring to the surgical strike on terror launchpads across the border with Pakistan, the BJP president said it showed the “political will” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On demonetisation, Shah said it was a “courageous step” aimed at curbing black money.
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