According to an article written in AARP the Best Employers for Workers Over 50 - 2011 Winners are listed below:
As you will note most of the jobs are in the health industry and most people over 50 do not have the training for these jobs or can get the training. The best you will do is become a volunteer with these organizations and possibly someone will notice you and suggest a job for you if there are no complications with others who are more qualified, educated in that particular field, younger and more energetic.
Per the AARP findings these are the winners in hiring people over 50. How many people are being hired by each of the companies listed below: 1, 5, 50, 100. I would bet the number is closer to 1. For the most part 99.9% of people 50+ are getting jobs through nepotism or someone who knows them or they know them really well.
When going on interviews you are setting yourself up to be sucker punched because the first thing the interviewer is going to do is look at you and immediately write you off as being too old or assume you would not be able to keep up with the pace set in the office among the 20 or 30 something employees. Although its against the law, the interviewer ask the persons age, but that type of discrimination is not being enforced at all, so they do as they please.
In this economy, most retirees need a part time or even full time job in order to survive financially because all their bills are increasing, help organizations have been closed, yet most of these organizations do not hire 50+ individuals.
The list is impressive, but please don’t believe that getting hired on at any of these companies just because AARP has published this list stating that they are hiring 50+ individuals is true.
PER THE AARP LISTING, THESE COMPANIES ARE HIRING PEOPLE 50+
1. Scripps Health 2. Cornell University 3. National Institutes of Health 4. First Horizon National Corporation 5. West Virginia University 6. The YMCA of Greater Rochester 7. Atlantic Health System 8. Mercy Health System 9. Bon Secours Richmond Health System 10. The Aerospace Corporation 11. WellStar Health System 12. MidMichigan Health 13. City of Glendale, Arizona 14. Massachusetts General Hospital 15. Pinnacol Assurance 16. Stanley Consultants 17. Central Florida Health Alliance 18. National Rural Electric Cooperative Association 19. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 20. Brevard Public Schools 21. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22. Pinnacle Health 23. TriHealth, Inc. 24. Cianbro Corporation 25. Securian Financial Group, 26. Lee County Electric Cooperative 27. Manheim 28. Monongalia General Hospital 29. George Mason University 30. Nevada Federal Credit Union 31. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina 32. Michelin North America 33. Saint Vincent Health System 34. University of Massachusetts Medical School 35. University of Southern California 36. Cabell Huntington Hospital 37. Virginia Commonwealth University 38. Ochsner Health System 39. FCCI Insurance Group 40. Saint Barnabas Health Care System 41. ACUITY, a Mutual Insurance Company 42. S&T Bank 43. University of Pittsburgh 44. West Virginia University Hospitals 45. Eastern National 46. Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center 47. DentaQuest 48. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey 49. San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind 50. Kaiser Permanente
As always its who you know and not what you know, with all your skills and experience.
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