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Older Workers Looking More Glamorous to Recruiters

The Seattle Times, 4/27/08

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AARP is adding three federal government agencies and six private companies to its list of employers looking to hire people 50 and older for full-time, part-time and seasonal jobs.

The Internal Revenue Service, the Peace Corps and the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Relief are the newest members and the first federal employers on AARP's National Employer Team. That brings the total number of employers in the three-year-old partnership to 38, said Deborah Russell, director of work-force issues for AARP in Washington, D.C.

A number of private health-care and home-care companies also are joining the roster, including Scripps Health, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Home Instead Senior Care, Synergy HomeCare, AnswerNet and Vedior North America.

Older Americans can check job opportunities and apply online at no cost through the AARP Web site, regardless of whether they're one of the group's 40 million members.

More employers are catching on to the benefits of hiring older workers, Russell said. "They recognize the fact that mature workers bring good experience and skills to the workplace."

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