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Jean has over twenty years
of experience in education, management, and career counseling.
She has worked with over 4,000 people in career transition.
Her practical professional experience is combined with extensive
study in the fields of adult education, motivation, change,
transition, and management theory. She is also the author
of The Age Advantage, Making the Most of Your Mid-Life Career
Transition.
Jean frequently speaks at organizations such as the International
Association of Career Management Professionals, and the International
Project Management Institute. She also serves on the Board
of Governors of the Institute for Career Certification International.
She holds a bachelor’s, a master’s and a doctorate
in education, and she was Oregon’s first International
Certified Career Management Fellow.
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will discuss the future of retirement. The threat of a
worldwide labor shortage is very real. Futurists and demographers
predict that by 2008, 45% of the workforce will be in
mid-life. Jean theorizes that the good news is today’s
mid-lifers are much too energetic, too competitive, and
too invested in their careers, to walk quietly into the
sunset. Jean will focus on life and work issues in an
aging world, the advantages and disadvantages of hiring
older workers, and the shadow presence of age discrimination.
She will explain how you can challenge past assumptions,
question expectations, retain and recruit older workers,
and redefine the optimum workforce. |
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Jean
Erickson Walker