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Resilient Recareering: Lifelong Learning - a Key to Success

by Cynthia Dailey-Hewkin

With fall approaching our thoughts often turn to the beginning of the new school year and learning new things. However, learning can go on all year long and in places other than classrooms.

If you are considering switching careers, working for a different employer, volunteering, running your own business, or simply taking it easy, you might want to consider the importance of keeping current by being a "lifelong learner".

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Get the Job Edge: Expand Your Online Job Search

If you're looking for work, you already know the statistics: Oregon's June's unemployment numbers are out. Joblessness is over 10%, and has been for the past eight months in a row. The data for those looking for work is also discouraging; across the United States, roughly 1 in 10 people are searching for work.

Searching for a job

Job seekers need an edge.

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Wanted: Boomers to Fill Green Jobs

You probably know the green sector is growing, and Portland is looking to be at the forefront of that movement. But you may not have known that Boomers are poised to fill those needed jobs, based on their skills, experience and wisdom.
Interested in a job? Keep checking Portland Business Journal's (Sustainable Business Oregon) Job Section.

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Encore Jobs

If you're interested in getting back to work or switching jobs, check out the jobs in the Portland area.

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Older Worker More Likely to Innovate

According to data from the Kauffman Foundation, the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America has shifted to the 55–64 age group, with people over 55 almost twice as likely to found successful companies than those between 20 and 34.

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Unemployed Finds Path to Employment and Life Change

Seifollah Mojab had been laid off from his first job in the U.S. when he spotted a flier advertising PCC's Entry Level High Tech Skills Training Program, changing his life.

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Changing Your Vocation After 50

Watch this inspiring video of people who made career changes after 50.

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Encore Careers (workers find fulfillment after 50)

Penny Mudd, 55, previously worked in Silicon Valley and is now on her way to becoming a high school math teacher.

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Estelle Parsons' Aha! Moment - An Acting Career Spring from Acting "Good"

The actress tried to please people all her life. Now, at 81, playing a woman who behaves very, very badly, she has discovered a whole new part of herself. Aha Moment from O!

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Computer Analyst Turns to Nursing

"It may seem like a stretch to go from computer systems analyst to hospital nursing, but in her 55 years, Sylvia Loran has learned to adapt and this latest transformation just may be the best yet."

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You Have the Experience to Change the World

Purpose Prize Finalist Gary Maxworthy

Gary Maxworthy shared a behind-the-scenes look at how he turned inspiration into action by drawing upon his food industry expertise to nourish the hungry through “Farm to Family”.

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