Here are resources on Encore.org.
Title |
Issues | |
|---|---|---|
| AARP's Job Search Engine | Job Search | AARP’s job search engine lists openings posted by “age-friendly certified employers.” The portal at www.aarp.org/jobs locates part-time, full-time and flex-time positions by keyword and location.... |
| AARP.org Job Search Engine | Job Search | The AARP.org Jobs Search Engine is powered by RetirementJobs.com. It screens employers to make sure they have age-friendly hiring practices and lists jobs for workers over age 50. |
| About.com | Interviews, Resumes, Job Search | About.com offers pointers on how to write a compelling cover letter, resume advice, job hunting tips, and more. |
| About.com's VolunTourism Page | Job Search, Volunteering | Experiential learning. Career counselors recommend that midlife career switchers expand their networks and learn as much as possible about a new vocation before committing themselves to a transition... |
| Academics Pioneer 'the Third Age' | Aging & Older Adult Services, Job Search | They are part of a new way of looking at retirement At age 55, Steve Weiner began to think about retiring from a satisfying 30-year career in higher education. He had gotten his Ph.D. in management... |
| Act Three, Cincinnati, OH | Career counseling, Job Search | Act Three Cincinnati Workshops, seminars, individual coaching and special events to help guide women who are seeking to switch careers or returning to work after raising children. |
| Additional Community College Resources | Articles and publications detailing the emerging role of community colleges in helping boomers transition to encore careers. http://www.civicventures.org/communitycolleges/resources.cfm. | |
| Adele Douglass, video | Animal Welfare, Food, Nutrition & Agriculture | |
| Advice from Principals to First Year Teachers | Education & Training, Volunteering | The National Education Association offers a trove of information for those in and seeking careers in education. In this selection, veteran principals offer advice to first year teachers. Principals... |
| Africa Bridge Founder Wins $100K | Children & Youth, Community Improvement & Organizing, Economic Development, Opportunity, Education & Training, Entrepreneur, Environment & Sustainability, Family and Parenting, Food, Nutrition & Agriculture, Health Care, Housing & Shelter, International & Foreign Affairs, Nonprofit, Poverty, At-Risk Populations | Barry Childs is the recipient of a 2010 Purpose Prize for his work with Africa Bridge, an Oregon nonprofit he founded to assist children orphaned by AIDS. The prize includes a $100,000 cash award. It... |
