Kerry’s Advice for Entrepreneurs: 11 Places To Find Money To Start A Business
Who doesn’t fantasize about starting a second career? Millions of Americans have launched one in midlife. In fact, about 20% of all new businesses in 2013 were created by entrepreneurs ages 50 to 59 and 15% were age 60 and older, according to a study published by the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom. If you want […]
Best Ways to Find a Career Coach
Last fall, I had the opportunity to attend the Gerontological Society of America meeting, which brought together 3,600 researchers from around the globe to present research on the aging population. My agenda was to attend sessions on working in our 60s and beyond and the challenges and rewards if entrepreneurship and being your own boss. […]
Meet ‘The Poster Boy’ For The Encore Career Movement: Ron Cordes
When Ron Cordes met his wife, Marty, in 1979, his college fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, was raising money by selling flowers on campus to benefit a camp for underprivileged kids. Marty’s sorority was also helping to sell the flowers. Thirty-five years later, the philanthropic duo, along with their 24-year-old daughter, Stephanie, are […]
Three Tips For Starting a Successful Side Business
One of my mantras: Always look at your career and work life through the prism of You, Inc. It’s a mindset that I find psychologically empowering.I really do run the Kerry Inc. business today with many clients. But that concept worked for me, even when I worked in-house for one employer. I always freelanced for […]
Six Tips To Deal With ‘Llewyn Davis’-Style Rejection
The other day, I went to see the new film by Joel and Ethan Coen, “Inside Llewyn Davis.” It’s bleak. My husband and I walked out of the film, shaking our heads. It’s the tale of a struggling folk singer, Llewyn Davis, set in Greenwich Village in 1961. And the music touches your heart–yearning, soulful, weary, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
13 Tips For A Working Retirement—Abroad
When my friend Nancy turned 60, she became the “it” girl, she says. She took up tango dancing, lost weight, bought some cool high-heeled shoes, and felt really alive for the first time in years. Then she took the next step. She moved to Buenos Aires. She bought a beautiful condo there and now tangos a couple […]
10 Tips for Working From Home
It’s Labor Day, and while many U.S. workers are relishing the extra day off, I’m working. But I’m not complaining. I’m perched in a comfy chair on the porch of a simple cottage overlooking a shimmering pond, a herd of horses, and the hazy-blue-toned Shenandoah Mountains in the distance. The morning mist is cloying and […]
