This webcast presents highlights of AARP’s resources for employers who want to employ older workers. It includes an assessment tool presented by Deborah Russell, Director, Workforce Issues, AARP. To see a videocast of Russell’s entire presentation, including her slides, click here, then click on the right arrow to start the video.

Whether you are a nonprofit employer interested in further developing your workforce or someone who is interested in an encore career but has not previously worked at a nonprofit, a new report, “A Perfect Match? How Nonprofits are Tapping into the Boomer Talent Pool”, by Jill Casner-Lotto of The Conference Board, provides “actionable advice” for both.

In SuperCorp, Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that for businesses to realize their full potential in the 21st century they will need to add a “social logic” to the narrow “financial logic” that’s led to so much strife and dislocation over the past few years. The book traces the experience and lessons of a set of companies across the globe that are managing to pull this integration off, from Cemex in Mexico, Banco Real in Brazil, and Proctor and Gamble.

GreenBiz.com has a terrific collection of green job listings. You can search for jobs, post a resume, view resumes, and use career tools. The site also features energy and climate news and multiple blogs.

By Jill Casner-Lotto. The Conference Board, 2007
A report from The Conference Board Boomers are Ready for Nonprofits, but are Nonprofits Ready for Boomers? found that nonprofits lag behind the government and private sectors in retaining skilled potential retirees within their organizations and actively recruiting older hires from other sectors.

A survey by Hewitt Associates released in late July 2008 found that 61 percent of the 140 mid- to large-size employers polled have developed or plan to create a special program to retain, targeted near-retirement employees. But very few – only 5 percent – have formalized those programs.

For more information, check out the Encore.org blog post.

The Employee Benefits Research Institute reported on a survey of 5,722 employees that found 61 percent might be induced to delay retirement if they were offered flexible hours, more pay or other incentives. Yet only 26 percent said they have been approached by their employers to stay longer.

For more information, check out the Encore.org blog post.

Temple University for Intergenerational Learning is offering a free online course to help nonprofits tap the talents and energy of people 50 and older. The three-hour, interactive course, called “Capturing Experience,” gives specific strategies for shaping paid and unpaid opportunities for older adults seeking jobs with a social purpose.

For more information, check out the Encore.org blog post.

Idealist.org offers a job board for nonprofits. In addition to the job listings, Idealist has assembled a Human Resource Center for nonprofit employers as well.

According to its Web site, The Center on Aging & Work at Boston College is a research center committed to engaging the broader business community in the implementation of flexible work options for older workers. The organization provides opportunities for employers to actively participate in a variety of research projects and practitioner learning models.