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Navigating Age and Ambition: Insights on Career Management Post-50s

This study delves into the evolving world of career management for individuals over 50. With a focus on personal and social factors, including health, economic context, and individual differences, it offers valuable insights for both job seekers and advisors. The research, conducted through qualitative interviews, spans urban and rural regions, shedding light on diverse experiences and challenges. Explore the impact of age-related changes on ambition, labor-market commitment, and values. Gain a deeper understanding of how economic, cultural, and personal circumstances influence career decisions in later stages of professional life.

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Navigating Age and Ambition: Insights on Career Management Post-50s

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  1. Career management and the over 50s: Work in progress from two NICEC projects for the Ufi Charitable Trust Ruth Hawthorn Lyn Barham NICEC seminar, 8 January 2008

  2. Project team Management Lyn Barham, Ruth Hawthorn Fieldwork Lyn Barham Judy Alloway Leigh Henderson Heather Jackson Consultant Geoff Ford Evaluation Centre for Research into the Older Workforce

  3. Sample Qualitative interviews with: • people who had used nextstep, learndirect, Jobcentre Plus and specialist third-age guidance services • people who gave advice in those services Geographical spread of: • urban north (Manchester and Tyneside areas) • rural southwest (Devon, Cornwall and Somerset), • and home counties (Hertfordshire)

  4. Components Personal age-related changes • ambition in and commitment to the labour-market • health, stamina, values Social/economic contexts • economic • class • cultural Background individual differences • abilities and disabilities • personal financial circumstances, current and future • tastes and preferences (including interest in, and ability/willingness to use, computers and telephones)

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