Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation

Workforce expert Tamara Erickson provides career strategies to assist the Boomer Generation create career opportunities that fit their needs

Workforce expert Tamara Erickson shows boomers how to challenge their assumptions about work in her book, Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation (Harvard Business Press, hardcover, $19.99).

Erickson outlines how human resource professionals can think about tapping this workforce as well as provides techniques on navigating the generational differences with Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y. Here’s an excerpt from her book.

Sort Through Your Options

These frameworks are not the options themselves. They are the filters through which you may choose to view each possibility—to search for options consistent with the Career Curve and Life Lures that work best for you.

Career Curve: Understanding the Intensity of Work

Over the second half of the twentieth century, employees’ relationships with corporate work have tended to follow a very predictable path: most careers began slowly; workers paid their dues with hard work and, often, long hours as they moved step by step up the career hierarchy. Most employees reached their personal pinnacle (or perhaps one step beyond, if you believe in the Peter Principle!) some time in their mid-forties to mid-fifties—their peak of power, prestige, and earning potential. Then, most had a Friday-afternoon retirement party, and—suddenly—found themselves by Monday morning lying in a hammock. Retired!

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