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05/07/2011
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Speeding up your search for jobs
Are you looking for some of the excellent jobs London has to offer but getting tired of the process? Finding a job doesn’t have to be a drawn-out affair. If you know how to go about it the right way you will be sitting in your new position in no time! All you need to do is plan out your job search accordingly.
"An unhappy new year for older job-seekers" says Chris Ball
Commenting on labour market figures released today (Wednesday 14 December) by the Office for National Statistics, Chris Ball, Chief Executive of TAEN – The Age and Employment Network, says:
“This is another set of contradictory figures that will bring little in the way of seasonal cheer to many older jobseekers. While we welcome an increase of 31,000 to 7.4 million in the number of people aged 50-64 in work, it is disheartening to see that long term unemployment continues to be a significant problem for the over-50s.
The UK's 66 over 66
WRVS Gold Age Power List tackles society’s stereotypes by celebrating the UK’s most influential pensioners.
WRVS, the age positive charity, today unveiled the Gold Age Power List. The list celebrates individuals who are continuing to make significant social and cultural contributions to the UK over the age of 66. They defy stereotypes and the misconception that the UK’s ageing population is a looming disaster because it represents a “burden” and “drain on society”.
Live webchat on retirement and how to tackle retirement issues
On 25th May 2011, retirement and insurance specialist LV= will reveal how the nation’s over 50s are planning for and living their retirement years in its fourth annual State of Retirement Report.
The Report will address how and where people are saving for retirement and what they think of the Coalition Government’s pension reforms.
English Language Courses for Youngsters
The importance and significance that the English language holds amongst the global population today is truly staggering. One only needs to see the number and variety of English Language Courses available to understand the status that this language has with people around the world.
Mature Times editor moving on
Tony Watts, founding editor of Mature Times, one of the UK’s largest circulation 50+ publications, has left to take up other projects.
Tony, now 58, originally helped establish the newspaper, which has a 200,000 national circulation, in 1991, and left after three years but continued to write for the paper.
In 2004, he helped form another company – Highwood House Publishing - to buy the business back and has since then helped build the title into the UK’s only campaigning newspaper for the ‘grey market’ with over half a million readers. And its website www.maturetimes.co.uk is now one of the largest dedicated sites in the country aimed at the 50. He also regularly commentates on 50+ issues on regional radio and television.
‘Employers have nothing to fear’ from the removal of the DRA says the Employers Forum on Age
The Government’s response on the consultation of the phasing out of the default retirement age (DRA), published today, (Thursday 13th January) will see an end to forced retirement from October 2011. Here, the Employers Forum on Age (EFA) give their comments.
Starting your own business? There is help!
Growing numbers of older people have turned their back on the nine to five and are using a lifetime of experience to go it alone. Laurie South is Chief Executive of PRIME, the UK charity that helps over 50s set up their own business. Here he sets out the assistance that is readily available.
"Job market remains toughest for older workers"
Despite the fall of 9,000 in the overall unemployment total shown in figures published by the Office of National Statistics, TAEN - The Age and Employment Network are warning that the over-50s continue to struggle in the jobs market, and that planned benefit changes will hit older workers hardest.
Why is "enterprise" just for the young?
This is officially 'Enterprise Week' - with a series of events designed to inspire people to set up their own business. So why, with so many people aged 50 and over out of work and keen to do just that, are they afforded so little help? By Laurie South of PRIME.
"Older workers need jobs before incentives"
The Age and Employment Network (TAEN) has welcomed the White Paper on welfare reform, published by the Department of Work and Pensions, but says that the main problem lies with employers willingness (or otherwise) to take on older workers.
Life expectancy gaps make working longer more difficult
The Age and Employment Network has responded to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on health inequalities, describing public policy to date as "patently silly and a scandalous disregard of the realities facing individuals".
Outlook grim for unemployed older workers
Despite a fall in the number of unemployed people in the last quarter, TAEN – The Age and Employment Network warned today that the long term unemployment and economic inactivity rates remain unacceptably high for the over-50s.
Why can't we have a 'Senior Apprentice' on TV?
Record numbers of older apprentices are busting the myth of older people finding it too difficult to learn new skills.
