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Shake Out Your Sails for the Retirement Wave !

HAPPEN Meeting - October 23, 2007 Mississauga

Mark Venning and Gerald Bramm are co-presenting at HAPPEN this month to a group of business professionals in career transition.

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Reframing Opportunity:
Shake Out Your Sails for the Retirement Wave!

Like in a tropical storm watch, those involved in the recruitment or retention of Boomer talent are on the shoreline wanting to know how this demographic group will shift the system. Is there wild weather ahead? It is an absorbing and uncertain question today, given the news headlines – Aging Workforce, Looming Skill Shortages and The Mad Race for Talent.

In the middle of all the media hype, how will Boomers “re-work retirement”? With the attitudes of today’s Boomers changing towards “active aging”, a person has more options in their choice to work longer but differently than previous generations and with the outdated version of retirement as a “crisp end” to work - “career longevity” has new meaning.

Join Mark Venning and Gerald Bramm to discuss the latest options for careers in later life, a braver move towards re-working retirement and a look at some highlights for workers and organizations in an aging world. This special 90 minute interactive presentation will include a summary from Gerald Bramm of current research on attitudes and perceptions of HAPPEN members on this very subject.

Reframing Opportunity-April 2007 Presentations

Mark Venning of Change Rangers made two presentations this April 2007 on "Re-working Retirement and Career Longeveity"

Titled Boomer Talent on the Shifting Tide:Reframing Opportunity, the presentations were targeted to two different groups - on April 16 at the CERIC- CANNEXUS National Career Development Conference (to career professionals in public and private sector environments) and on April 18 at the Staffing Edge Symposium (to recruiters, owners and managers of staffing firms).

The core message to both groups was that the issue we are facing as a society is not retirement, but longevity and as Theodore Roszak says in Longevity Revolution - "As longevity assumes the dimensions of a second lifetime… terms like “seniors”, “elders”, “retired” – run the risk of blurring more than they clarify . . ."

If work is to be part of that "second lifetime" says Mark, then what career professionals and recruiters need to look at is reframing opportunity- rethinking what is a workforce and encouraging options for careers in later life or in other words promoting career longevity as part of active aging.

Highlights!

Mark Venning- Global News Hour: February 19, 2007

Pleased to announce that Mark Venning of Change Rangers will have a brief spot on the Global News Hour on Monday, February 19, sometime between 6 and 7 PM. Global News Hour covers the GTA and Southwestern Ontario region.

The Global News feature story is about the new attitude toward the concept of Retirement and the longevity factor that has changed the way we look at working later in life. The Change Rangers focus is "Re-Working Retirement & Career Longevity".

Also interviewed by Consumer & Investigative Reporter Sean O'Shea will be Victor Wells-a Corporate Finance Specialist, who has made a successful later life career transition with the professional help of Nelson Cusitar of Cusitar Associates in Oakville.

Mark Venning on Career Buzz - Radio CIUT 89.5 FM

Starting off a brand new year for Change Rangers, on February 23, 2007 at 11 am, Mark Venning will appear on the University of Toronto Radio Station CIUT 89.5 FM. This is a revised date from the original scheduled date of January12.

Career Buzz is hosted by Mark Franklin of Career Cycles. The 1 hour show will discuss the career journey of each of the guests in addition to a dialogue around current career issues.

Mark Venning will share his views and ideas on global aging population issues that will change our perspective on "career longevity" and the potential trends for career choices related to the needs of shifting demographics.

In addition, among the other guests are career changer Debbie Beam (following her ongoing transition story).

The Maturing Workforce: Not Business As Usual

Mark Venning is presenting at the IAJVS Conference in Minneapolis, May 21 -23, 2006. The theme of the conference is The Maturing Workforce: Not Business As Usual.

As International President for the Association of Career Professionals International and Founder of Change Rangers - Mark will be on a plenary session panel titled, "The New Face of Retirement: Perspectives on Career Longevity" with Marlene Zakai, Director Grants Process Operations at US based, Corporation for National & Community Service; moderated by Karen Goldenberg, President of IAJVS and CEO of JVS Toronto.

In addition to the plenary session, Mark will lead a group discussion on "Generational Issues in an Aging World".

This annual conference is held by IAJVS - a nonprofit network of 29 national and international human service agencies in major metropolitan areas in the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Israel. Member agencies provide a vast array of services that have a direct effect on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year: career management, skills training, rehabilitation programs, health services, and home and community-based services.