Seniors Take Job-Hunt to the Web
It’s not just kids who are Googling "unemployment." Grandma and Grandpa are looking for jobs online too.
Nearly 3.6 million people age 65 and older visited career-development Web sites in January, according to a Nielsen Online report released Thursday.
The majority of job site visitors - 18.7 million - are still between the ages of 35 and 49. But people 65 and older were the fastest growing group by far, up 41% from the same time a year prior.
Chuck Schilling, research director at Nielsen Online, says the figures represent a “desire to stay employed longer” in order to “sock away more retirement savings.”
Workers age 65 and older made up roughly 17% of the work force at the end of the year, up from about 12% a decade earlier. The current jobless rate for that age group is 5.7%. The unemployment rate in January was 7.6%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest it’s been since the mid-1990s.
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