National Employ Older Workers Week
By Gene Burnard September 30th, 2008
Last week was the annual National Employ Older Workers Week. Numerous newspaper and blog articles were written on the topic. Many local organizations conducted older worker career fairs.
I wonder just how effective these are in the current economy. But maybe, just maybe, this economy can be an opportunity for older workers.
A story I’ve told often. It was 1991 and my son Bryant graduated from Tufts University with an engineering degree. In the slow economy of that time, there were few jobs for new engineers. And he had none.
One day, shortly thereafter, he called me while standing in line at a job fair in Boston. His complaint to me was “I’ll never get a job here - most of the other job seekers in line were my (that’s me) age”. Needless to say it took me awhile to get my laughter under control. (more…)

