BACK TO WORK 50 Helps Older Adults with Job Training

BACK TO WORK 50

Compete With Confidence for Full-Time Jobs

BACK TO WORK 50 offers free workshops, coaching, and resources that can help you compete in today’s fast-changing workplace.

Looking for a Job

Over 50 and looking for a job? You’re not alone. BACK TO WORK 50 provides the training, coaching and job seeking tools you need to compete with confidence for today’s in-demand jobs. Call 855-850-2525 or click on the button below to register for a Smart Strategies Workshop near you or request a copy our Jobseeker Guide.

Community Partners

AARP Foundation launched BACK TO WORK 50 to increase the services and resources available to 50+ job candidates nationally and in communities and to facilitate their access to in-demand jobs. We work with key partners to integrate local workforce services, public benefits application assistance, and employer engagement efforts to connect 50+ job candidates to specific in-demand jobs in their communities. BACK TO WORK 50 is currently being administered in the following locations. To find out if there is a local BACK TO WORK 50 site near you, dial toll free 1-855-850-2525 or Jefferson State Community College
Birmingham, AL Arapahoe/Douglas Works!
Denver, CO Denver Economic Development & Opportunity
Denver (City & County), CO CareerSource Brevard
Cocoa, FL Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership
Chicago, IL Workforce Partnership
Lenexa, KS A-B Tech Community College
Asheville, NC Capital Area Workforce Development Board in collabroation with NCWorks Career Center - Capital Area
Raleigh, NC

BACK TO WORK 50 Success Stories: Meet Jacquie and Gabe

Jacquie Johnson credits job coaching and BACK TO WORK 50 for helping her get a full-time job she loves. She lost her job by choice — the kind of choice most of us wouldn’t hesitate to make. Jacquie was working as a supervisor of environmental services at a major hospital in Indiana when she made the difficult decision to resign her position so she could help take care of her ailing mother in Oklahoma, who had chronic kidney failure and had developed dementia.

Gabe Menvielle can’t prove it, but he’s fairly certain his age, 55, factored into his struggle to find a job. “It was an unusually low response rate. I’d send 50 résumés out, and I wouldn’t hear back from 45 of them. That would never have happened before, with my background. I have experience with software companies and nonprofits, good companies. I worked for the symphony, the Florida Philharmonic. I thought, ‘Am I invisible? What’s going on?’”

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