Second Act CEO Brings Sunnier Days To Sesame Street
At the annual Halloween bash last year, Jeffrey Dunn, the 63-year-old CEO of Sesame Workshop, didn’t dress up as Bert or Ernie but as the Statue of Liberty. “I was distraught by the divisiveness and the toxicity in this country,” he says. “I wanted to make a statement to our employees of what we at […]
Career Success After 50
You have to smile when a guy opens his career-advice book with the lyric from the song Truckin by The Grateful Dead: “Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it’s been.” The Dead and John Tarnoff, the career coach and author of that excellent book Boomer Reinvention: How to Create Your Dream […]
How to Put Your Money Into Firms That Support Women
This week, I had my annual face-to-face meeting with my financial adviser. We converse throughout the year via emails and a rare phone call, but this was the have-a look-under-the-hood summit. It was my chance to grill her on how my investments were doing, tweak my asset allocation to conform to my conservative growth strategy […]
4 Tips for Older Job Seekers
The constant doom and gloom chatter about older job seekers is wearing on me. I get it. I have stared into the eyes of job hunters over 50 and seen the pulsing fear. They’re often frustrated and depressed by the feeling that employers won’t hire them due to their age. Earlier this week, I was […]
8 Ways to Use Social Media to Find Your Next Job
When Sree Sreenivasan, 45, left his job as chief digital officer at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in June after three years there, it wasn’t his choice. “This decision has been made in the context of the recentering of the Museum’s work and our current financial restructuring,” the museum said in an internal memo. […]
How to Avoid Bank Overdraft Fees
Banks love to talk about how easy it is to do online banking, such as depositing checks via a smartphone app. But did you know that if you want to see how much is really in your bank account, you still need to balance your checkbook? Your bank’s app not only might give you bum […]
How to Switch Careers Later In Life
You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars on a gap year program to find a new vocation with meaning. Here are some steps to take – preferably before you retire from your old job. For more career advice from Kerry Hannon, go to KerryHannon.com
Thinking About a Gap Year? Harvard And Stanford Help Boomers Shift To A Purposeful Second Career
By 2008 Doug Rauch, president of Trader Joe’s, was burned out. He had spent the last 31 years–virtually his entire career–overseeing the quirky California retailer’s rapid expansion to the East Coast, developing its buying philosophy as well as its private-label food program and traveling “ceaselessly.” He was just 56, he didn’t need to make any […]
How To Start A Second Act With Purpose
When Doug Rauch “retired” in 2008, he was 56. He had spent 31 years at Trader Joe’s, where he led the California grocery chain’s move to the East Coast, rising to president. But don’t call it “retired,” he calls it “graduation.” Here’s why: While he planned to keep active serving on corporate and not-for-profit boards […]
Tips To Plan For A Second-Act With Purpose
You don’t have to spend $60,000 and a year at Harvard or Stanford to find a new vocation with meaning. Here are some steps to take–preferably before you retire from your old job. Here are my seven tips to DIY second-act planning: – Run the numbers. Can you afford to move to a lower-paying sector […]
