Posts Tagged ‘Baby Boomer’

Back To The Basics: Baby Boomer Job Searching Tactics

Back To The Basics:  Baby Boomer Job Searching Tactics

Baby boomers faced with the prospect of job searching—in some cases for the first time in years—need to employ more sophisticated tactics in an overall job searching strategy.  The days of relying strictly on a resume are long gone.  While a well-written resume is still important, it’s only one tool in a job search tool [...]

Jobs For People Over 50 – On The Road To Where?

Jobs For People Over 50 – On The Road To Where?

The economy is unstable, to say the least, we don’t know if Social Security will come through for us (or even still be in existence) when we retire, and we keep hearing that we’re the part of the workforce that is least likely to get hired. CBS News even has a video titled Baby Boomers: [...]

Baby Boomers: Are You Prepared to Restructure Your Life?

Baby Boomers: Are You Prepared to Restructure Your Life?

Are you a baby boomer who’s ready to retire, and if so, are you ready for retirement? That’s the big question. If you are like me, a baby boomer in the latter stages getting near retirement age, do you have enough money or investments set aside to carry you through your retirement? Will you be [...]

Technology and the Aging Man

Technology and the Aging Man

One source indicates that nearly half of us in this cultural demographic born between 1946 and 1964 are “members” of some sort of social network. Facebook seems to be the “drug of choice”, with Twitter and Linkedin following in hot pursuit. I’ve been invited to Linkedin several times, why I don’t know. I have been [...]

Is Reinvention In Your Plans For 2011?

Is Reinvention In Your Plans For 2011?

For a Baby Boomer, asking the age-old, rhetorical question – Who am I? – might at first blush seem a trifle counter-intuitive. You’d think that if you’re a Boomer, that question was answered a long, long time ago. But was it? And if it was, is the answer still accurate, or better yet, relevant? For [...]