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Free Ebook from Jacob Morgan: 5 Ways People Over 50 Can Stay Relevant. How Older Workers Can Embrace the Coming Changes and Stay Relevant in the Future of Work. Has info on what does the future of work look like for the 50+ population; The 5 key trends shaping the future of work; Why you need to embrace the coming changes; The 5 ways older workers can embrace these changes and stay relevant in the changing world of work; Specific actions that you can take to help future-proof your career.

Free Ebook from Jacob Morgan: 5 Ways People Over 50 Can Stay Relevant. How Older Workers Can Embrace the Coming Changes and Stay Relevant in the Future of Work. Has info on what does the future of work look like for the 50+ population; The 5 key trends shaping the future of work; Why you need to embrace the coming changes; The 5 ways older workers can embrace these changes and stay relevant in the changing world of work; Specific actions that you can take to help future-proof your career.

published in 2011, excellent chart on page 8 of The Extended Workforce: Old and New Realities, 3 columns headed Dimension, Old Reality, and New Reality. Reports that type of work by extended employees has changed from primarily low-skilled, low-value work to high skilled, high value knowledge work, personal profile of workers has changed, reasons for becoming an extended worker have changed.

site that allows you to paste your resume into a form with the job description of the position you are applying for, and gives you immediate feedback on what to prioritize, what you might be missing, and what changes you can make to get past the resume screeners.

site that allows you to paste your resume into a form with the job description of the position you are applying for, and gives you immediate feedback on what to prioritize, what you might be missing, and what changes you can make to get past the resume screeners.

By Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs.com. Her take on the status of Job Boards today. She has 3 observations: Boards have changed, job postings haven't and need to be updated; big box job boards focus on volume, smaller niche job boards on a refined pool of potential applicants; ATS/RMS keep candidates and hiring managers apart. New technologies such as gaming used by Marriott may erase this.

By Sara Sutton Fell, CEO of FlexJobs.com. Her take on the status of Job Boards today. She has 3 observations: Boards have changed, job postings haven't and need to be updated; big box job boards focus on volume, smaller niche job boards on a refined pool of potential applicants; ATS/RMS keep candidates and hiring managers apart. New technologies such as gaming used by Marriott may erase this.

Lydia Dishman, Fast Company, April 16, 2015 on business ecosystems, Deloitte Consulting uses term "ecosystems" and has new report--Business Ecosystems Come of Age. Intuit report on contingent workers is cited. Two points: temporary work through freelance platforms like Odesk and marketing and product development (projects) through creative crowdsourcing platforms like Tongal or Quirky.

interesting topic for women contemplating changes in their lives

great article on how fears of boomers from four years ago about attempting encore careers have declined, maybe because of external environmental changes or attitudinal shifts from within.

Case study on scaling Encore Fellowships Networks, 2013 "These include getting network members to take responsibility for the network's long-term governance and sustainability, balancing the need for network-wide coordination with the need for local flexibility, and knowing how much growth and variation the network can handle at different points in its evolution and just how much is needed to achieve the organizers' social change objectives"

great article in WSJ by Anne Tergesen, October 19, 2015, on how to get past aging stereotypes and age with fewer fears, pessimism, etc. 

amazing list of 50 influencers bringing about change in health and well-being, work & purpose, caregiving, living & learning, etc. as we age past 50

"Older, wiser and a lot of them The world is on the cusp of a staggering rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before. Over the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600m to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when greater longevity translated into more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth and "secular stagnation", while the swelling ranks of pensioners will bust government budgets. But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people, whereas older skilled folk are working longer. The divide is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers are putting off retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce."