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Retire Retirement: career strategies for the boomer generation

Mar 13th, 2009 | By Catherine Tan | Category: New Resources

retireRetire Retirement

Tamara Erickson

Harvard Business Press

Location: Business Library

Call no.: HF5382.5.U5E68

Employers today have a problem: there aren’t enough young people entering the workforce to take your place if you leave. And it’s not just a lack of bodies – skills and experience walk out the door every time somebody retires.

For Boomers, this is good news. You will have a nearly guaranteed market for your skills and energy. And power is shifting in your favor: the shortage of talented workers will allow you to renegotiate your relationship with work.

In this practical, optimistic book, Tamara Erickson explains your options, including nontraditional ways to remain in the workforce. Retire Retirement will help you how to go about getting it, starting immediately.

– excerpt from Retire Retirement.

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Author: Catherine Tan (42 Articles)

The Head of Library Promotion Division at NTU Library. The division’s main responsibility is to increase awareness of the library’s resources, tools, and services. The team has partnered with both database vendors as well as private companies to create activities and collaterals which attract NTU community to use the library. She had previously worked in corporate libraries which require constant marketing of services and resources to internal clients. Promotion of the value of information services are often needed to justify the existence of resource centres which are often viewed as cost centres.

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  1. Andrew Lee March 28th, 2009 2:54 pm

    I would like to know more about taping on and unleashing the retired workforce as a mean to rectify the current global financial crisis. This is because retired work force is not only more experienced and therefore more skillful than the currently active workforce, they will also cost much less to hire, as retired people no longer have a high personal financil committment. I am particularly interested in how to implement this concept in Australia where many skilled retired people are left to dust and unused once they are over certain age. In China I have seen they treated their retired officers in various fields respectfully and called them “Teacher Lee or Teacher Wong, etc” (or “lau shi”). Can we do this in other countries? This will increase the dignity of retired people in the west also.

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  2. Andrew Lee March 28th, 2009 3:01 pm

    Can we call the retired workforce “Global Vintage Workforce”?

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  3. Art September 2nd, 2009 7:45 am

    Agreed. No baggy pants dope smoking slacker could ever replace me- like, you know?

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