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blog post by Juliana Weiss-Roessler on why online resumes are critical to have these days, February 15, 2013. She recommends using LinkedIn, online resume builder, and your own website.

blog by Nancy Collamer, March 22, 2013, on best websites for finding encore careers.

Nice blog by Danielle Holly, Common Impact, on engaging remote employees and skilled volunteers with good sources cited in the article, May 17, 2016. If everyone is remote, everyone is equal, but skilled management is still needed.

nice blog by Danielle Holly on engaging employees--in all their new variations of flexible, entrepreneurial, and purpose-driven foci--to volunteer. People need empathy and experience to become truly engaged--people to people.

blog post by Laura Murphy, August 17, 2015 on why being engaged in community is good for your freelancing

"Applicant Tracking System Tools for Job-Seekers" has a list of resources for ATS optimization of resumes including articles, blog posts, and tools.

"Applicant Tracking System Tools for Job-Seekers" has a list of resources for ATS optimization of resumes including articles, blog posts, and tools.

"Here are the some of the most widely-used volunteer matching sites: Idealist.org NetworkforGood.org VolunteerSolutions (http://volunteer.united-e-way.org/) Volunteers of America (www.voa.org) VolunteerMatch.org PointsofLight.org"

Really nice article by Carrie Cousins, Design Shack, September 9, 2014 on collaborating to freelance successfully

down to earth article on how to use one's strengths and interests to move into second purposeful career, Next Avenue blog.

Interesting blog post on income producing activities by Margaret Manning, Sixty&Me

Informative blog post by Katie Bascuas at Associations Now on importance of LinkedIn presence and inside professional associations' social media channels for job hunters, September 3, 2015

blog post by Kara Looney, LinkedIn Pulse, on combining profit with purpose in corporations--responsibility of employer and employees, April 7, 2015. Could this line of thought open opportunity for how employers help long-time employees exit into their encores?

Margaret Manning's video interview with John Tarnow on digital tools to use for networking and starting businesses. (17 minutes) shocked at # of people who do not have photos on social media profile including LinkedIn "Transparency is new privacy" "Linkedin is great tool for our generation, Facebook more social, need to fill in LinkedIn profiles to give employers/clients sense of compatibility, affinities" It is also connecting to people they know. How important is blogging? A-It's a process to find what your point of view is. Part of reinvention process is figuring out what we have to say, that others can learn from. Manning did a list of 60 things for younger women to know Being of service to community is key. Subscribe to news feeds, Google alerts on handful of topics that relate to this interest. Go to website, comment, engage with other people to develop your voice, your brand. Purpose of networking--to have fun, to link up with others, looking to start a business--great opportunities on Linkedin, search tools. Act locally, think globally. Define product and market--same old skills we have used forever. only difference today is scale. Twitter is way of getting message out, supporting brand. Outward platform. Social mindset is needed for starting businesses. Live in a sharing economy--software, business development, etc.

Excellent blog post by Nancy Collamer, April 3, 2014 in Next Avenue identifying her top ten job sites online for finding alternative-work (part-time, project, etc.)

blog post on finding jobs online--may be useful for Encore seekers

"12 million applications, 600,000 interviews and almost 300,000 hires"

blog post by Doyle at aboutcareers on LinkUp that pulls job postings from company websites; does not mix in postings from job boards

blog post overview on job boards, including specialized job boards by name that operate for specific industries, social networking, how to go about job searching Undercover Recruiter

From undercoverrecruiter.com: Indeed and Monster have more candidates without a college education, Careerbuilder has more candidates with a college education and degrees. Indeed and Monster cater to teenagers, temporary job seekers, those only with a high school education and those freshly out of college. Careerbuilder weeds out some of the less serious applicants and is used more by high-scale employers. Entry-level hiring employers use Monster. For employers, Indeed is cheapest to use, then Monster, with Careerbuilder being the most expensive. Employers still use Careerbuilder because it weeds out unqualified and less serious applicants.

From undercoverrecruiter.com: Indeed and Monster have more candidates without a college education, Careerbuilder has more candidates with a college education and degrees. Indeed and Monster cater to teenagers, temporary job seekers, those only with a high school education and those freshly out of college. Careerbuilder weeds out some of the less serious applicants and is used more by high-scale employers. Entry-level hiring employers use Monster. For employers, Indeed is cheapest to use, then Monster, with Careerbuilder being the most expensive. Employers still use Careerbuilder because it weeds out unqualified and less serious applicants.

Great infograph by United We Serve on volunteering in America: 8.1 billion hours served in 2010.

Stereotypes about aging-which would you rather follow?  Jack Benny's approach (39 forever) or George Burns (I'm 79 or 95 or 100--so what!).