Career/Workplace Expert, New Guide Offer Boomers Advice on Finding Work that Matters

Former New York Times Columnist and Blogger Marci Alboher Available for Interviews

SAN FRANCISCO –In this economy, searching for a new job, a purpose-driven job, isn’t easy. It’s not easy at any age, and it’s certainly not easy at, or beyond, midlife. To offer inspiration, advice, and resources, Civic Ventures has published a new guide for baby boomers starting to search for encore careers that combine greater meaning, continued income, and social impact.

Leading the effort to help boomers – and available for interviews – is Civic Ventures’s Marci Alboher, a former New York Times columnist and blogger who is one of the nation’s top experts on career issues and workplace trends.

Alboher is a senior fellow at Civic Ventures and the author of One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success. She wrote the blog “Working the New Economy” for Yahoo! and is a frequent guest on radio and television and a much-quoted expert in major print media.

The new guide, published with support from MetLife Foundation, is called Looking for an Encore Career? The Guide to Finding Work That Matters. It provides practical tips, case studies, and recommended resources in response to 12 frequently asked questions:

1. Now that I’m ready to get started, what should I expect?
2. What do I need to know about job hunting these days?
3. How do I prepare for the possibility of earning less money?
4. How can I update my job skills?
5. How do I finance the transition to an encore career?
6. How can I turn volunteering into a job?
7. How do I transition from a corporate job to a nonprofit one?
8. What does it take to break into health care?
9. How do I become a teacher?
10. What is a green job, and how do I get one?
11. What are the encore career opportunities in government?
12. What are the options for striking out on my own?

You can download the guide at www.encore.org/find/guide and use the above contact information to schedule an interview with Alboher.

About Civic Ventures (www.encore.org)
Civic Ventures is a national think tank on boomers, work, and social purpose.