Not everyone retires and never works again. More of you are learning this every day. Especially in this economy, retirees are finding they need to work again to supplement their pensions and Social Security. This article will suggest to you a number of websites that may help you find that retirement job.
Criteria for Websites Appearing In This Article
These websites appear in this article because they, more than other job search websites, have features that make them very useful for the retiree. For example, some retirees want to work again, but they want to “do good” or “make a difference” and are therefore interested only in non-profit jobs. A number of the websites discussed in this article allow searches that can be limited to non-profit jobs only. Some retirees only want part time or seasonal jobs and some of the websites discussed in this article can specifically target those jobs.
Another criterion to appear in this article is the ready availability of job information. Specifically, some websites do not appear in this article because they do not allow a person to see full detailed job descriptions without first opening an account on the website. You first have to open an account, and then you get to see what the website has to offer. This seems like unreasonable control of information and I eliminated any website taking this approach from inclusion in this article.
The third qualifier for making this list was simply that there actually has to be job vacancies on the website. A number of websites initially looked promising for retirement jobs. However, when tested with specific job searches for various occupations and zip codes, they turn out to have few, if any, job vacancies on the website. Websites with no jobs do not appear in this article.
Retired Brains
Retired Brains (retirementjobs.retiredbrains.com/c/search_results.cfm?site_id=9182): This website offers more than just a good search engine. The entire website is devoted to retirement issues and offers articles, information, and advice on issues important to retirees, including, but not limited to health care, Medicare, Social Security, and career transition. You might learn something useful if you explore this website.
The jobs search engine, however, is the main attraction on the Retired Brains website. Search options are numerous and include searching by occupation, by location, or by occupation within a location. One unusual aspect is that location searches are for states rather than by city or zip code. This is a little cumbersome because you have to scroll down the search results and look for jobs in your city. However, excellent features in the job descriptions more than offset this small inconvenience.
Many of the job descriptions on this website contain helpful information that goes far beyond information available in job descriptions on other websites. For example, many of the job descriptions provide actual human contact point information for the job. These job descriptions provide you the name of a person to contact about the job, with their phone number, email address, fax number, as well as a link to the company website. In some cases, the job description provides an address where you should submit your cover letter and resume via snail mail. Getting a human contact point for a specific job, instead of just pushing an “Apply Now On-line” button is golden! However, by the way – the website also has the usual “Apply Now On-line” button on each job if that is what you prefer.
The Retired Brain job search engine appears superior to most other job sites. Searches on this page yield many job listings and the related job descriptions provide more helpful information than is available in job descriptions on other websites. For all these reasons, Retired Brains should be a very early stop in your on-line job search.
AARP Job Search
AARP Job Search (jobs.aarp.org/jobs): One issue needs resolution before proceeding – YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE AN AARP MEMBER to use this job search engine!
Now that that issue is out of the way, here is the scoop on the AARP Job Search. The AARP Job Search allows you to search for jobs by zip code, by occupation, and by occupation within a zip code. Advanced options allow you to search specifically for full time jobs, part time jobs, contract jobs, or temporary jobs. Other advanced options allow you to show jobs from employer websites only (versus from job boards) or exclude jobs from staffing agencies. If you are interested only in nonprofit jobs, run a search with “nonprofit” in the “What” field and you will see mostly nonprofit jobs. Unfortunately, putting “consulting” in the “What” field does not produce clean results and you have to dig a little if you are interested in consulting jobs.
Most important, the AARP Job Search finds many job hits when you search and you can see detailed descriptions of the jobs that interest you. Most of the jobs descriptions allow you to apply on line. You can apply without opening an AARP account, but you may have to open accounts on the employers’ websites.
Snag a Job
Snag a Job (snagajob.com): The job search engine at Snagajob offers perhaps the greatest flexibility and most capabilities of any discussed in this article. By use of very simple to use filtering methods, you can target in on exactly the job you want.
The first thing you should do to access the filtering options is click on the “Browse Jobs” header on the home page. You then see a page that allows you to find jobs by Category, Industry, Position, Company, and Location. Filtering allows you to do extremely targeted searches. For example, you could first search for all part time jobs by clicking on the part time jobs link under Category. The search results appear on a new page with additional filtering options of by state, by industry, and by company offered. You could then push the by state option, select your city, and you will have results showing all part time job openings in your city.
The best approach seems to be to first search by location. This displays all job listings for your city. You can then filter the results by job category (full time, part time, or seasonal). You can subsequently further filter those results by industry or company name. For example, by searching for Henderson, Nevada, then filtering for part time jobs only, and then filtering for accounting jobs only, you can find listings for two part time accounting jobs in Henderson, Nevada. In another example, it took just about a minute to find job listings for 13 part time and 3 full time cashier positions in the Cincinnati Ohio area.
The job listings you do get with your filtering all show you detailed descriptions for the jobs. Apply on-line appears to be the only way to apply. Unfortunately, to apply on-line, you must open a free account on Snagajob. To be perfectly honest, opening such an account has risks and you must decide for yourself whether opening a Snagajob account is for you. Your safest approach may be using Snagajob’s search engine to see if companies close to you show openings. Remember, you can filter for specific companies by name. If a nearby company shows up on a job search, go visit the company to see if you can apply in person, bypassing the need to establish a Snagajob account. Whatever way you go, do give the Snagajob job search engine with its advanced filtering options a try. It is exceptional!
Conclusion
This article presented a synopsis of three websites with job search engines good for finding a retirement job. By no means are there only three such websites, and the three discussed in this article may not be the best of the lot. However, they are simple to use and allow searches tailored to the job types retired people most want (e.g., part time or non-profit). Give these three websites a try – and good luck with your job search.