Seven Social Media Mistakes For Older Job Hunters
A great online presence, or let’s call it a persona, gives you an edge on a job hunt. Landing a job is hard enough these days, why leave a stone unturned? Let me count the ways a smart social media strategy is in your best interest: Using social media-Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter- properly allows recruiters […]
Women and financial advisers: a rocky relationship
This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. Not long after my husband, Cliff, and I got married, he asked me to join him for a meeting with his financial adviser. Cliff had invested with this adviser for about a decade and was happy with the results. So I went along — and instantly regretted it. […]
Watch Kerry’s Interview on the Sixty and Me Show
Watch Sixty and Me’s interview with Kerry. ”Kerry Hannon is an expert on personal finance and careers for boomer women and is my special guest in this episode of the Sixty and Me Show. Kerry is a writer for Forbes magazine and Next Avenue and is AARP’s Jobs Expert. Kerry is also the author of the best-selling […]
Scholarships Aren’t Enough
One night, as they sat in his library sipping a $10 bottle of Meursault, Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke turned to Stuart A. Haney, his young lawyer and aide de camp, and declared: “Twenty years after I’m gone I will only be a footnote in the annals of the National Football League.” But, as […]
What to Do If You Are Bullied at Work
There’s a lesson in the news of alleged harassment of players on the Miami Dolphins football team: Bullying isn’t just about schoolkids or athletes. It’s rampant in many workplaces, no matter the industry. According to the Bellingham, Wash.-based Workplace Bullying Institute, one-third of people surveyed say they’ve been bullied on the job. Half of the organizations […]
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Kerry’s Expert Tips on Daily News: Unemployment for seniors and how to find work
This week’s column is different from the usual question-and-answer format. I would like to share some thoughts from participating in the AARP conference Work@50+ recently held at the Long Beach Convention Center. The attendance was exceptional — 1, 000 people with at least three-quarters of them looking for work. It’s one thing to read the […]
Giving Circles: More Impact to Go Around
Inside the red-brick St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in North Philadelphia, more than a century old, the walls, lined with stained glass windows, reverberate with the haunting strains of a chorus of middle schoolers singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” It’s a soaring rendition of a ubiquitous song. The simple repetition of the word is comforting, mesmerizing and […]
How to Mentor Women Vets Who’d Love Your Help
Charlie Palumbo, 33, has had seven jobs in three states since leaving the Navy just over a decade ago. To say the least, she’s had a rocky path to finding work. But in July, the Charlottesville, Va. mother of two got her “dream job” as the veterans outreach coordinator at the Virginia Employment Commission, assisting […]
The 11 Biggest Mistakes Older Job Hunters Make
Guess what? Older workers get jobs. It might take a little more time for a myriad of reasons from your salary demands to your own lack of imagination about the kind of work you’re applying for, but employers really aren’t out to shun workers over 50. They do want grown-ups in the shop. We tend […]
