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• Job Losses Mount, Enduring and Deep

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  THE rise in unemployment that has occurred in the current recession has been hardest on young workers, while having a smaller effect on older workers than previous downturns. Women have been more likely than men to hold on to their jobs. Worst of Three The overall unemployment rate, which reached 10.2 percent on a ...
  2 days ago

• Job Losses Both Deep and Enduring 2009 - 2012

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  The rise in unemployment that has occurred in the current recession has been hardest on young workers, while having a smaller effect on older workers than previous downturns. Women have been more likely than men to hold on to their jobs. The overall unemployment rate, which reached 10.2 percent on a seasonally ...
  2 days ago

• Vaud unemployment period extended

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 449
  Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Unemployment benefits in canton Vaud for jobless workers over age 30 will be extended from 400 to 520 days in canton Vaud, from 1 December 2009 to 31 May 2010, the federal goverenment announced Wednesday morning 11 November. The relatively high unemployment rate in the canton and the ...
  5 days ago

• Over 50s jobseekers treated like second class citizens

  
  The Pluses of Being 50 Plus — Authority: 123
  One in six jobseekers aged over 50 feel that they are treated like second-class citizens when applying for jobs, according to a survey* to determine the views of older jobseekers, carried out by online recruitment agency SkilledPeople.com . The survey also showed that it is common place now for the majority of job ...
  6 days ago

• After 40 Years, Age Discrimination Still Gets Second-Class Treatment

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 129
  By ADAM COHENAfter working for a vending machine company for more than 20 years, James O’Connor was replaced with someone younger. He sued. He testified that his boss had disparaged older workers, including saying — two weeks before he was fired — “O’Connor, you are too damn old for this kind of work.” A ...
  1 week ago

• Never Too Late: Starting New Career After 50

  
  Cyber Flopping! — Authority: 147
  The single thing that’s repeated in this life is change, and starting new career after 50 is not as strange or rare an idea as it seems. The explanations are varied, too. Some may be searching for a career change because they want to, and some because they have to. There isn’t any doubt that it will be a tough ...
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• Bridging the Gap: Employment Branding Across Generations

  
  The Hiring Site — Authority: 123
  Your mama may not dance, and your daddy might not rock’n’roll…but that doesn’t mean they’re all that different from you – especially when it comes to evaluating prospective employers.  Despite the supposed “generation gap” that exists in the workforce, Gallup research has found that certain factors ...
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• Jobs For All Experience Levels Are Tough To Find

  
  frugalfridays.net — Authority: 158
  When you are looking for jobs for 17 year olds you are competing with older workers now than before this financial crisis. Older teens can do most any job but so many people with families have lost their jobs that they need any kind of work they can get. This means older and experienced workers are routinely now ...
  1 week ago

• The Golden Years in America: Can’t Work, Can’t Retire (Unless You’re a Bailed-Out Banker)

  
  Unsilent Generation — Authority: 421
  The National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare reports today on recently released statistics that illustrate the lose-lose situation now faced by many older people, thanks to Wall Street and the recession it spawned. The National Retirement Risk Index  shows that a majority of American ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Smart Lemming’s Daily Twitter Digest: October 28, 2009

  
  SmartLemming.com - Manage your career or it will manage you — Authority: 133
  The Smart Lemming sent out the following tweets, recommending these additional resources from news, articles, and posts on business life, career management, management and leadership, and women in business: Interesting: 8 potential Twitter’s business models while most publishers have only one or two ways to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lords support anti age discrimination

  
  The Pluses of Being 50 Plus — Authority: 123
  Have a look at Chris Balls blog in which he describes a debate in the House of Lords about older workers along with some other issues. We have quoted Chris before who is the CEO of TAEN.
  3 weeks ago

• Part-Time Jobs For Older Workers

  
  A Recruiters Blog — Authority: 119
  Older workers make up about 25 of total workforce but the prospects of their job security are probably less than 5%. Therefore in order to earn a reasonable amount, they have to plan about finding a part-time job. Part-time jobs may be able to help them to compensate for their monthly less wages. Finding a part ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2016: Number Of Older Workers To Increase More Than 80%

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 117
  Older Workers Spend Less on Necessities and Health Care COLUMBIA, Mo. – More older Americans are choosing to continue to work or are returning to the labor force. The number of workers age 65 and older is predicted to increase by more than 80 percent by 2016. In an ongoing study, University of Missouri ...
  3 weeks ago

• Work Stress Peaks During Middle Age

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 587
  A new study by UK scientists suggest the stress levels at work peak when we reach about 50 to 55 years of age and decrease as we head toward retirement. However, experts at the University of Nottingham also found that the effects of stress in our working lives can stay with us well into retirement. Amanda ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jobs For All Experience Levels Are Tough To Find

  
  frugalfridays.net — Authority: 158
  When you are looking for jobs for 17 year olds you are competing with older workers now than before this financial crisis. Older teens can do most any job but so many people with families have lost their jobs that they need any kind of work they can get. This means older and experienced workers are routinely now ...
  3 weeks ago

• Jobcentre Plus staff accused of poor service to older people

  
  The Pluses of Being 50 Plus — Authority: 123
  Jobcentre Plus advisers have been accused of discrimination against older jobseekers and should be given training to help deal with their specific needs, age campaigners said. Figures published last week revealed the number of unemployed people aged over 50 had risen to 371,000 – a 44% increase in a year ...
  4 weeks ago

• Careers and Employment - Baby Boomers Need Flexible Employment Opportunities to Remain on Jobs By Anna D. Banks

  
  e-Guru.org — Authority: 144
  The 78 million-strong population of Baby Boomers currently represents as much as 40% of the American workforce. All, or most of these boomers are unlikely to look at complete retirement at the age of 65 and as many as seven in ten of the boomers who are eligible for retirement actually plan to work far past age of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Out of work, out of options, into retirement

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 148
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  4 weeks ago

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