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We are delighted to report that the Institution of Chemical Engineers have been added to the every growing roster of A List Institutes that are working with Expert Alumni to help their Expert Members in their Retirement.
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IChemE director of regional networks and member support, Justin Blades says he expects the new collaboration between IChemE and Expert Alumni to prove popular: “7% of our members are aged 65+ but their knowledge and expertise is still invaluable to industry. Expert Alumni can help our members who want to remain professionally active do just that.”
Having just read Jon’s last post – it got me to thinking that there are some useful apps and technology out there – we will add a new category to future posts to help you navigate.
I am wondering if it is not so much being redefined or refined – but simply a relic that time is leaving behind.
Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney (both of which ‘would never last’ – according to my dad in the late 60s) seem to be going on and seemingly not retiring any time soon – might be showing us all the ‘way’ again.
Love to hear your thoughts.
Redefining sounds a significant shift .. Would ‘refined’ be better word ? All feedback welcome.
This caught our eye – mainly because we have just started ‘twittering’ ourselves. We think the jury is out just yet, in that we wonder if our target demographic – the ‘retired’ (and we are still wrestling that one down to the ground) population are using twitter.
If you are – let us know – find us at Expert Alumni @ Twitter
Meanwhile – the full article is here :::: Will Twitter Transform Business?
… just keep working …. is that the new retirement ?
… however you want to look at it … that is what we are doing – all of us. And we are exploring all kinds of networks to get our message to you. ﹟Oil, ﹟Gas, ﹟Energy, ﹟Talent,﹟Retirement … we are here to help you – the individual, the organisations and enterprises, the colleges and universities, the professional bodies. Contact jon@expertalumni.com if you would like to know more.
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENCE WHEN BATTLING ADVERSITY
By Jon Glesinger
Published: 03/11/2008
Bob Dylan’s song, The Times They Are a-Changing, is in chime with our times
Whether your credit is being crunched, squeezed or wiped out, there is no escaping the way the world is changing shape again.
No, I don’t think I am saying anything new here, but it certainly is appropriate for this column, about people, to have something to say about it.
So what is there to say that has not already been said? Not a lot is the likely answer, but what I would like to say is this. We have been through a number of cycles in the past and we have seen more than a million people exited from western upstream petroleum along the way.
This has happened in the interests of efficiency, down-sizing, right-sizing or whatever politically correct use of language has been applied to the activity formerly known as reducing overheads to be more profitable.
Of course, bumper profits have just been posted and, while the price of a barrel of oil has dropped significantly, we do still expect the oil companies to go on making a profit.
The problem we have been discussing endlessly in the recently concluded boom has been how much of a shame it was that so many skilled, essential people were let go in the previous downturn. If only they had been retained as part of a long-term strategy rather than a shortsighted instant profit activity, we would have all been better off.
The Skills Gap Now Means That Mergers and Acquisitions Are At Risk — Of Even Happening !!
