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2young2retire
Fifty or better and wondering what the future holds? You're not alone. Welcome to 2young2retire, a resource for fresh, break-the-mold thinking about the life you want and how to achieve it.
Contact information:
www.2young2retire.com
Career Anchors: Discovering Your Real Values
This book helps readers discover areas of competence, what motivates and stimulates them through the use of a career orientations inventory. Schein, E. (1985). Career anchors: Discovering your real values. San Diego: University Associates. ISBN-13: 9780883900307
Council of Independent Consultants, The
The Council of Independent Consultants is a resource for people who want to be independent contractors or consultants.
Contact information:
www.cipcmn.org/
Creating You & Company: How to Think Like the CEO of Your Own Career
Bridges, W. (1997). Creating you & co.: Learn to think like the CEO of your own career. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. ISBN-13: 978-0738200323
Cynthia Cook, Inc. / Retirement Enterprises Group
The Retirement Enterprises Group provides short and long-term employment opportunities in the Twin Cities & out state - Office, Administrative, Drivers, Customer Service, Food Demonstrations, Survey, Warehouse, Light Industrial and Professional Consulting. We work with you to find the right opportunity and there is never a cost to you!
Contact information:
www.ruworking.com
Don't Stop the Career Clock
The author refutes the myth that aging implies decline in human ability. This book is divided into three major sections: Rejecting the Myths of Aging and Working, Learning a New Way to Tell Time and Resetting the Career Clock. It also includes seven steps for re-setting your career clock. Harkness, H. (1999). Don't stop the career clock: Rejecting the myths of aging for a new way to work in the 21st century. New York: Davies-Black Publishers. ISBN-13: 978-0891061274
Senior Environmental Employment
The Senior Environmental Employment (SEE) Program, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, utilizes the wealth of talent, experience and skills possessed by retired and unemployed older Americans. The work being done by the many SEE participants demonstrates the effectiveness of older Americans in helping to prevent, abate and control environmental pollution.
Contact information:
www.epa.gov/epahrist/see/brochure
Senior Job Bank
This website is the classic SeniorJobBank that employers and job seekers have been visiting for years. Employers use our web service to advertise their jobs to our audience of talented, dedicated people over the age of 50. Employers posting with us are committed to hiring baby boomers and older workers. Our online service provides job postings for a modest fee to the employer, job search, resume and job alert registration for job seekers, as well as career and education information. It's all here for both active and passive job seekers nationwide.
Contact information:
www.seniorjobbank.org
What Color Is Your Parachute?
This guide to finding employment has been in print continuously for the last thirty years. The current edition has been completely revised to coordinate with an accompanying website. The author asks the questions "What do you want to do?" and "Where do you want to do it?" to help the reader find the right job. The book includes activities to assess your employment needs. Bolles, R. (2001). What color is your parachute? Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN-13: 978-1580086158
