In going for the gold of youth, are you missing out on the silver of age? It is easy for any HR practitioner to be focused youth; it is almost a no-brainer: they cost less, they can be molded and trained in your ways, they are digitally smart and inexpensive. Besides, they are better looking…. [Read More]
Scared of job-hunting? Bash down that wall!
It is easy to construct a whole wall out of reasons not to job-hunt. Once we start looking for negatives, we become masters in the craft of obscuring the future. We can find reason after reason, laying each one like a brick on top the first, as though we have never heard of windows or doors. That is not… [Read More]
Forget CV, hello Résumé for the 2nd Life
See also: Work Seekers Guide It is clear: what worked for -50 will not work +50 and for our 2nd Life. We will need to repurpose with a special Résumé. There is a reason why you do not put the fact that you passed Grade 1 on a traditional CV; it is history which not useful… [Read More]
Elders and ‘youngers’ belong together
The division of the ages is unnatural and surely not good for us. In Seattle, USA, is an example which shows the way: 4-year-olds and 90-year-olds happily side by side in a care community. ‘The Mount’ is a full-time care facility for 400 older adults, but is also home to a preschool for more than 100 children. The… [Read More]
A quarter of new Entrepreneurs are aged 55-64
According to the 2013 Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity the age group 55-64 experienced a rising share of all new entrepreneurs in USA. And in Great Britain in 2014, the New Enterprise Allowance, a government scheme providing startup support, proved particularly popular with the over-50s. In this age group 14,000 people set up businesses through them, compared… [Read More]
Jobs for Seniors: Japan leading?
33% of Japan’s population is above the age 60, 25.9% are 65 or above, 12.5% aged 75 or above. This is due to many interesting factors (see links below) but it means that Japan needs to raise its retirement age to 77! The percentage of seniors in Japan who want to work past age 60 exceeds… [Read More]
Who plans to retire?
‘Almost half of full-time workers aged 50-64 plan to retire between ages 65-69’ According to a 2015 AARP survey of full-time workers aged 50-64, “the most popular age for [projected] retirement falls between 65-69 (45%). The balance of respondents are split between retiring early, before the age of 65 (23%), or late, at 70+ (26%). Very… [Read More]
Would you take anti-ageing drug?
A common and inexpensive drug holds the promise of an old age which stretches to 120 years. Metformin used by diabetics, has had such good results in experiments that new studies are in the works to see if it fulfils the promise. At Silver Mettle we promote a productive old age, but sometimes when the future hurries up to… [Read More]
Marketers ignore +50 year olds
51% of consumer spending done by people over 50. 10% of marketing activity is directed towards people over 50. – U.S. Bureau of Labor, September 2015 When organisations do not employ +50 year olds (who may I remind you, make 51% of the consumer decisions), what kind of decisions are made? If the population of a company… [Read More]
Not Retired: Bettee de Groote
Bettee de Groote is in her mid seventies but nothing daunts her, including tackling digital challenges head on. Here is her story. ‘After a high-powered job in Johannesburg with all the trimmings such as international travel, a personal assistant, vehicle, the lot, I, together with my husband, moved to the Cape, basically to get away… [Read More]
