Pivot to a Second Act With Purpose - Next Avenue - 1 views
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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 25 Jun 15down to earth article on how to use one's strengths and interests to move into second purposeful career, Next Avenue blog.
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Barriers to Encore Careers Are Falling - Next Avenue - 0 views
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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.
Best Freelance Platforms 2015 | TBC - 1 views
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rankings of freelance platforms from Elance, Upwork, Guru, Freelancer, to Fiverr, Field National, 99designs, crowdSPRING, PeoplePerHour, etc.
http://monitorinstitute.com/downloads/what-we-think/value-exchange-tool/Value_Exchange_... - 1 views
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Deloitte Consulting completes the value exchange tool to show why it allied with New Profit, Inc. a leading venture philanthropy fund for three years. Brilliant use of graphics in tool--example, empty, and completed, that shows how partnerships between for- and not-for-profit entites should be evaluated before commitment. Choosing whether and how to partner is made easier by viewing any potential partnership arrangement through the lens of four contributions that an organization might provide: reach, assets, reputation, and capabilities. The Value Exchange Tool is a simple method for considering what a partner could potentially contribute, stacking up what a potential partner brings, and representing the value exchange at the heart of the partnership in a single visual.
A Look Inside The New Trends In Business | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 1 views
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everything that has worked for organizations and leaders in the past—rules, best practices, business models, mind-sets—is being challenged
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Receding Boundaries, Emerging Opportunities, And New Challenges
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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.
These Are The New Rules of Work | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views
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The old rules of work applied to an economy of factories and offices, a world of "standard," stable employment with large employers, over careers with more or less predictable trajectories. The new rules belong to another universe—flexible, precarious, and entrepreneurial, less and less tied to specific times, places, and employers.
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Old Rule: You have a full-time job with benefits. New Rule: You go from gig to gig, project to project.
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Old Rule: Work is "9-to-5" New Rule: You’re on call 24-7.
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article by Ross Perlin, May 18, 2015 on new rules of working
5 Free Apps That Feel Like The Future Of Work | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views
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Doug Aamoth from Fast Company writes about 5 free apps that help you get organized, find an instant office, manhandle your email, work collaboratively on same documents, etc. Trello, Breather, Canvas, Quip and CloudMagic.
The Real Reasons More People Are Working In Retirement | Fast Company | Business + Inno... - 0 views
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A new study from Merrill Lynch addresses the myths and motivations around retirement. Nearly three out of five retirees launch into a new line of work after retirement, according to the study, and working retirees are three times more likely to be entrepreneurs than pre-retirees.
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"Retirement today is a much more dynamic and fluid process where people re-invent themselves and go through phases of transition."
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If you’re not ready to fully jump into entrepreneurship, but want to stay active in your field, Wald suggests considering part-time consultancy. Staying relevant in their industries for retirees means keeping up with technological advances, and staying in touch with former colleagues—not faking the latest cool gadgets to appear younger.
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Article by Samantha Cole referring to new study from Merrill Lynch in 2015 on why people choose to work past retirement age.
Will You Be Able to Work in Retirement? - Bloomberg Business - 0 views
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Part of the reason more workers aren't making the transition into retirement jobs is that many companies aren't set up to accommodate flexible working arrangements,
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The majority of the 28 percent of retired middle-class boomers who either are working or have worked for pay during retirement say it's not because finances forced them to but because they wanted to work. The extra money's nice, they say, but so is staying mentally alert, keeping active, having a sense of purpose and staying in touch with colleagues.
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article by Suzanne Woolley, May 18, 2015 in Bloomberg Business on how unexpected events force earlier retirements than planned and reasons for continuing to work past age 65.
Busting the Myths About Work in Retirement - Next Avenue - 0 views
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The No. 1 reason they’re working, the survey said, is “to stay mentally active.” Money was No. 4, after “to stay physically active,” “social connections” and “sense of identity/self worth.”
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The No. 1 reason they’re working, the survey said, is “to stay mentally active.” Money was No. 4, after “to stay physically active,” “social connections” and “sense of identity/self worth.”
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Earnest Earners (28 percent)
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post by Richard Eisenberg, Money & Work Editor, June 3, 2014, Next Avenue. New Merrill Lynch Study that surveyed 1,856 working retirees. Motivations: #1 is to keep the mind active.
Think You'll Work in Retirement? Think Again - Next Avenue - 0 views
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Many older workers — fully 69 percent in one study — found themselves retiring earlier than they expected.
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41 percent of surveyed workers
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envision transitioning into retirement by reducing hours…or by working in a different capacity that is less demanding or brings greater personal satisfaction.” The problem: Only about half of surveyed workers in their 50s and 60s said their companies allow workers to reduce their hours or shift to a less-stressful or less-demanding position.
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Challenges of finding work post-retirement, Glenn Ruffenach, Market Watch, Next Avenue, June 9, 2015.
10 Great Sites to Find Gigs and Part-Time Work - Next Avenue - 0 views
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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.)
How to Find a Job in Retirement - Next Avenue - 0 views
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Great article by Art Koff at Next Avenue on how to find jobs in retirement using the temp job, part-time, volunteer, project routes of entry. Sounds perfect for ECO members!
Accenture-Future-of-HR-Rise-Extended-Workforce.pdf - 1 views
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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.
Shocker: 40% of Workers Now Have 'Contingent' Jobs, Says U.S. Government - Forbes - 0 views
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Tucked away in the pages of a new report by the U.S. General Accounting Office is a startling statistic: 40.4% of the U.S. workforce is now made up of contingent workers—that is, people who don’t have what we traditionally consider secure jobs.
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It reinforces estimates of the independent workforce that have come from observers ranging from the Freelancers Union to Faith Popcorn
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people in this workforce are struggling economically
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article by Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes contributor, May 25, 2015, on 40% of the workforce working in "contingent" jobs as contractors, project employees, part-timers, on-call, agency temps, contract workers, etc. according to new GAO report.
ePortfolios for Learning - 0 views
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Helen Barrett's home page on eportfolios for learning. She includes a keynote address she did on portfolios for an educators group in Hamilton, NZ in February 2015. Lots of excellent individual slides on lifelong learning and how the portfolio is a laboratory for prompting and documenting learning.
Part-Time Jobs for Boomers - AARP - 0 views
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adult education teacher;
Part-Time Jobs for Boomers - AARP - 0 views
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Suggests two part-time jobs for workers 50+--accountant/financial manager; medical records transcriber/medical coder/billing.
Part-Time Jobs for Boomers - AARP - 1 views
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people jobs that may be done part-time are recruiter, social media specialist;
Book Review: 'Unretirement' by Chris Farrell - WSJ - 1 views
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Great article--book review of Unretirement from September 23, 2014 by Geoffrey Norman with quotes from Bobby Bowden (long-time FSU football coach) and Mick Jagger (long-time singer of "Satisfaction") on how our desire to work, engage with others, and pursue our interests doesn't diminish upon reaching "retirement age." Book review is positive, funny, worth reading if you like Chris, Bobby, or Mick and their contributions to understanding the impact of baby boomers and living full, long lives.
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