Thought Starters
Don’t Change to Combat Ageism. Succeed in Spite of It
Encore entrepreneurship is the best revenge for highly experienced professionals facing ageism. Linkedin promotes ageism by requiring dates for work experience. Articles then advise older users to limit what they include in their profiles (and on their resumes) to...
A Business Model to Combat Ageism
Ageism is a significant issue faced by tenured professionals who want to continue working beyond their 60s but struggle to find suitable job opportunities due to biases and misconceptions about their capabilities. Companies, however, frequently have project or...
We Have All Become Content Creators
The AP partnership with OpenAI may hope to improve the accuracy of the farmed content but does it really resolve the greater issues? Remixing and its step sibling, outright plagiarism, have always been staples of poor, unimaginative writers. A little of this, a little...
Rewriting Retirement
Has ageism made retirement a dirty word? Do some of us reject the ‘retired’ label, lest others (mistakenly) perceive us as ‘done’? Euphemisms (e.g. transitioning) seem a bit like denial, yet traditional definitions no longer apply. We need to actively challenge...
Hope For Solving Ageism
There is a tsunami coming — a swelling tide of older Americans who are woefully unprepared for retirement in any shape or form. This is an undeniable reality. Preparing financially for retirement is ideally a long game of working a plan and then getting your ducks in...
Putting a Name on Purpose
Addictive achievement. It's fueled by the buzz that comes from getting to a goal, receiving recognition or setting an impressive new standard and it's something that many of us suffer from. The socially acceptable term for it is purpose, which is a huge part of our...
Your Career Path is Changing
According to this Forbes thought piece, non-linear careers are the future, people are living longer and the average career could increase by 50% to 60 years long. So how does ageism, already an undeniable issue in hiring, job advancement and re-careering, figure into...
The Changing Nature of Work
Released today, the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2023, assesses the impact of macro trends and technological change on jobs and skills over the next five years. (Spoiler alert: Nearly a quarter of all jobs will change, producing a net decrease of 14...
Use Entrepreneurism To Battle Ageism
Ageism is rampant in the workplace and especially in hiring. All of those articles about companies that are eager to hire ‘experienced older workers’ who are trying to re-enter (or stay in) the workforce are more PR than HR. Retirees who want to go back to work are...
Changing DEI’s Novelty Status
We must get to the point where diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are considered norms and not novelties. That will require much more than featuring diverse people and photos in corporate and customer marketing. It is human nature to seek out companies or...