Loading ...The use of job boards to perpetrate fraud on unsuspecting job seekers is growing at an alarming rate. There are many domestic and international predators looking to relieve you of your money or personal information.
Most are out of reach of law enforcement. Many, if not most, are international. Even if the US law enforcement would get involved the likelihood of convictions is very small. Read the rest of this entry »
Am I not worthy of financial analysis after 60? I saw this on CNN Money and thought, what the heck, let’s give it a try and see what they say (income inserted for testing).
This is their response. Apparently I’m too old to matter.
We all get job search burnout. Some get it more than once. Let’s take a look at some of the things that push us there:
Yes, they are all valid for some situations. But what are we going to do? I’ll tell you what most normal people do. They:
Do you see yourself in there? Can you add more to the list? Let’s relate all of these to the word “If” and test yourself to see if you have these of any other If”s.
Back on July 9th I read an interesting article titled “How to Fix a Career in the Dumps”, by Grace L. Williams of The Wall Street Journal. In it, she provides excerpts from an interview with author and management consultant, Michelle DeAngelis. Ms. DeAngelis wrote the book Get A Life That Doesn’t Suck. Let me preface this post by saying that I have not yet read the book. But there are two points, actually three, that just jump right out at me and beg me to comment and reiterate to the Workforce50.com audience.
Many of our readers are in economic and varying levels of personal distress. Many feel as though they have lost control of their lives, they feel hopelessness and they feel confused. Whether unemployed or fearing unemployment, there are three points that Ms. DeAngelis shares with us in her interview that can help each of us take better care of ourselves by managing our stress through good times and bad.
Today I’m issuing a confession and congratulations all in a single post. We work hard here at Workforce50.com and progress is painfully slow sometimes. But we’re committed to being an honest, high-quality web site with a mission and purpose of serving the over fifty community with employment information and resources.
My confession as the Editor of this web site is that I’m sooooo frustrated by the complaints that we receive about the low number of job postings on the web site. Yes, we are in an economic downturn and most employers are suffering through layoffs and hiring freezes and periods of employees living fearful of losing their jobs. But here’s the thing. We have committed to the 50+ community to put out a genuine product. That means that we will not aggregate job postings from the various large database services out there. That means that when someone finds a posting on our site, they can be assured that age is not only NOT an issue with the advertising employer but the employer is actively searching for older qualified candidates to fill that position. The employer will not be surprised that their job is displayed on an over-50 web site.
