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The AARP crash course in finding the work you love: the essential guide to reinventing your life
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Publisher
Sterling
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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From the Book
A new attitude: Understanding the new order
Career change checklist
What is decareering?
Find your work style
Longer lives = richer careers
The workforce redefined
Generations at work
Stepping back to move forward
A new mindset takes hold
Myths be damned
Key questions
Navigating the world of work: Set your sites on making a change
Retirement redefined
America's fastest growing occupations
Boost your KQ
Working for life
Boomers in demand
Second acts: still flying high
Where gray matters
Key questions
What is your recareering style? Adapters
Opportunists
Key questions
Change agents
Reinventors
Active retirees
Fantasy seekers
Recareering with style
Worksheet: discovering your style
Discovering your ideal career: Career & personality tests
How to gauge your interests online
Career counseling comes of age
Is counseling for you?
What about online counseling
Does your employer offer counseling?
Key questions
Does a career coach make sense for you?
Transforming skills into an occupation
Coaching qualifications
Second acts: of blueprints & bedpans
Self-assessment can trigger change
Finding a career you admire
Focus on the future
Worksheets: Self-assessment; Assessing careers; Pulling it all together
What are my options?
Understanding your work personality
Know thy skills
Key questions
10 careers ideally suited for recareering boomers
Other careers to consider
Career options by the numbers
Make a federal case of it
Back to school, forward to work: Laying the groundwork for a career move
Explore your options
Cultivate lifelong learning
Out of the cube and into the class
Extend your education
Learning to change
Get schooled
Helping others attain "Aha!"
Money matters: Making Social Security count
Assessing your situation
Expected & actual sources of income in retirement
Understanding your assets & borrowing options
Factor in your financial choices
How to make a severance or buyout work for you
Explore an alternative lifestyle
Making things compute
A new career changes the equation
Learning to feel
Addressing healthcare-coverage risks
The challenge for women
Retirement: the end game
Calculate career-change costs
Estimate your net worth
Track income & expenses
A question of balance: Flextime
How to sell an employer on a flex-work format
Job sharing
Telecommuting & the virtual office
Key variables in the motivation equation
Contract work
Cultural immersion
Sabbaticals
By your leave of absence
Phased retirement
Taking the bite out of the generational sandwich
A new generation of perks
Thinking big, working small
7 steps to breaking away
Making sense of change
Higher callings: Embracing the new activism
Clarity via charity
Volunteering
Putting street smarts to work
A tool kit for trading places: How to locate possible employers
Where the bosses are
Saw your blog, want a job?
Job fairs
Social networking sites
Virtually connected
Minding your business
Crafting a business plan
Buying into a franchise
Nursing a passion for change
5 myths of entrepreneurial success
Basic business structures
Make your presence known: Applying for a job
Internship
How to whip the waiting game
Make yourself available
Resume rules: dos and don'ts
Understanding search firms
You on the Tube?
6 steps to an effective cover letter
Sample resume & cover letter
Mastering the art of the interview
You've changed careers, now what? Starting all over again is gonna be rough
Navigating a new workplace
Exit strategy
Discovering your style
Career resources.
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9781402752407
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