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There Is No Skills Shortage – Just Look To The 50+ Generation
Date: 25 November 2024
Last Sunday, I had a moment that perfectly captures National Older Workers’ Week.
I was at Marks & Spencer to sort out some travel currency. I guessed the experienced woman serving me might be from the 50+ generation – the undervalued group of employees behind this week’s campaign.
Pauline said yes, she was 70 years old and her colleague Nicki nearly the same. As I rudely quizzed them, they proudly said they had worked there for 20 years, always turned up on time, were rarely sick and they love their jobs.
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Meet the Yorkshire 'unretirement' expert making the case for nation's over-50s workers
Date: 23 November 2024
Article originally in the Yorkshire Post
Victoria Tomlinson is helping older professionals prepare for life after their career ends – becoming an unwitting ‘unretirement’ campaigner in the process.
There are no end of damning statistics when it comes to two interconnected crises facing Britain – a growing shortage of skilled staff and an army of older people who are still keen to work but can’t find an avenue to do so.
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Make employers take on the aged - and not just as drivers
Date: 14 September 2024
Article originally in the Financial Times
Everyone is agreed. Our social care cannot cope with our ageing society.
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One in 10 returns to work after retirement
Date: 19 July 2024
Article originally in HR Magazine
More than one in 10 (11%) of people over 50 in the UK have returned to work after retiring, research from insurer Legal & General has shown.
Employers should invest in upskilling people over 50, commented Victoria Tomlinson, chief executive of retirement advisory Next-Up.
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Digital skills shortage: the 50+ workforce is part of the solution
Date: 26 March 2024
Article originally in People Management
Older workers are keen to play their part in the economy and help solve the talent crisis – they just need to be given a chance by employers, argues Victoria Tomlinson
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Women to the rescue
Date: 16 February 2024
Article originally in Yorkshire Life February 2024
Challenges come in all shapes and sizes – from volunteering with Mountain Rescue to carving out a new career in your sixties. We celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 with some Yorkshire women making their mark.
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Next-Up makes Yorkshire Business Insider’s 50 most exciting companies
Date: January 2024
Article originally in Yorkshire Business Insider January 2024
Flying start
Insider brings you a fresh cohort of young ventures set for big tings. See which 50 companies under seven-years-old have made this year’s list
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Harrogate based - Unretirement expert launches digital platform supporting over 50s in workforce
Date: 13 November 2023
Article originally in Business Up North
Harrogate-based unretirement expert, Next-Up, has launched a new digital platform to support the often overlooked demographic of over 50s in the workplace, providing inspiration on what they can continue to achieve in retirement — the first benefit of its kind for this age group.
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Yorkshire-based unretirement expert support over 50s in the workforce
Date: 9 November 2023
Article originally in Bdaily News
Unretirement expert, Next-Up, has launched a new digital platform to support the often overlooked demographic of over 50s in the workplace, providing inspiration on what they can continue to achieve in retirement — the first benefit of its kind for this age group.
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Unretirement expert launches digital platform supporting over 50s in worksforce
Date: 8 November 2023
Article originally in Yorkshire Business Women
Unretirement expert, Next-Up, has launched a new digital platform to support the often overlooked demographic of over 50s in the workplace, providing inspiration on what they can continue to achieve in retirement — the first benefit of its kind for this age group.
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Making your alumni an asset to your firm
Date: October 2023
Article originally in Modern Lawyer October 2023
Retirement used to be the end of a working life. Now, most lawyers want to do something more when they leave their firm in their 50s or 60s – though few have much of an idea as to what that is or could be.
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People need to rethink the idea of age in the workplace
Date: September 2023
Article in Voice Magazine – Institute of internal communication
Employees in the 50+ cohort are often viewed as being at the end of their careers. Instead, employers should recognise the value of experienced, veteran workers, says Victoria Tomlinson, founder and CEO of Next-Up.
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In-depth: the valuable skillset of the growing 'midlife entrepreneur' category
Date: 26 July 2023
Originally appeared in The Scotsman
It’s a tempting narrative – the born entrepreneur who shuns a conventional career path and starts a business young, endorsed by an array of support and awards aimed at founders with fewer than three decades since birth.
‘Protirement’ is trending again, but ageism remains rife
Date: 20 February 2023
Originally appeared in Worklife
In late January, Jeremy Hunt, chancellor of the U.K. government, invoked the spirit of Uncle Sam, who had implored Americans to enroll for World War I action over a century earlier.
With, at the last count, 1.1 million job vacancies to fill in the U.K., Hunt adopted a similarly commanding tone, this time to persuade troops to rejoin the workforce and ease the war for talent.
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The mystery of the disappearing 50+ generation
Date: 21 December 2022
Originally appeared in HR Future
The 50+ generation is causing concern and debate. More often ignored or written off, this is quite some change. The government was so shocked at recent stats about the 50+ generation disappearing from the workforce, they commissioned further in-depth research to understand why.
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Letter in FT: Consider for a moment how 60-year-olds feel
Date: 6 December 2022
Originally appeared in the Financial Times
In all the analysis as to why hordes of 50 to 64-year-olds are leaving the workforce (“The Great Unretirement era is coming for Britain”, Opinion, November 26), no one is talking about how the 50+ generation feels they are treated at work.
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Are you ever too old to change careers? What to know about making the move at different points in life
Date: 5 December 2022
Originally appeared in Metro
With the year coming to an end, lots of us are reflecting on the things we want to change heading into 2023.
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Yes boomer! We still want you!
Date: November 2022
Originally appeared in SAP insights
Companies that help their near-retirement employees think about what’s next can create advantages for all concerned.
Victoria Tomlinson is chief executive of Next-Up, an organization that works with people preparing for retirement. A Baby Boomer herself, Tomlinson says the preretirement workshops she runs include giving employees ideas for their next pursuits and suggesting ways they can gain new skills before retiring.
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Retirees must have these four key components to make a winning side hustle
Date: 16 November 2022
Originally appeared in Forbes
Congratulations, you’ve made the decision to start your own business. Well, maybe “business” sounds a little too formal. Perhaps it’s only a small retirement side hustle. This, in itself, can benefit you in more ways than you think.
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Advice to senior entrepreneurs seeking to start a retirement side hustle
Date: 14 November 2022
Originally appeared in Forbes
“Doctors say that people can age ten years in the first two years of retirement if they don’t have a purpose in their life,” says Victoria Tomlinson, Chief Executive at Next-Up in Harrogate, UK. “Starting a business means learning massively, mixing with younger people, getting into technology, and challenging yourself every day. In other words, you’ll have a purpose in abundance.
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7 Major mistakes made by retirees looking to start a side hustle
Date: 10 November 2022
Originally appeared in Forbes
“The classic is to get a coaching qualification and then start up as a coach without learning about marketing,” says Victoria Tomlinson, Chief Executive at Next-Up. “In fact, I would say that is generally the biggest mistake people can make.
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An expat’s retirement – double the challenge
Date: 10 November 2022
Originally appeared in Expat Network
Why is retirement difficult; what are the additional issues for expats; and how can you give yourself the best chance of a happy retirement – or unretirement?
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How can employers tailor benefits to suit ‘unretired’ employees?
Date: 25 October 2022
Originally appeared in Employee benefits
Victoria Tomlinson, chief executive of Next-Up, which helps pre-retirement employees with workshops and an online platform, explains: “Too often, employers wave goodbye to their employees when they retire and miss out on the talent that could help them in so many areas of their business, such as mentoring younger generations, community ambassadors and projects using their specific expertise.”
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The exponential rise of the side hustle
Date: 2 October 2022
Originally appeared in The Telegraph
As the cost of living continues to skyrocket, so too does the number of midlife participants in the thriving gig economy
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How to get a job with no experience: 7 tips
Date: 6 September 2022
Originally appeared in Theforage.com
If you’re thinking, “I can’t get a job because I have no experience,” you’re not alone. It’s the worst paradox
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The great unretirement: The teacher turned hat historian, the nurse who just doesn't want to stop... meet the women heading back to work
Date: 6 September 2022
Originally appeared in This is Money
What is driving ‘The Great Un-retirement’?
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Combatting the ageism glass ceiling – how women can boost their careers beyond 50
Date: 6 September 2022
Originally appeared in We are The City
Although ageism in the workplace is not gender specific, research around pay disparity and leadership positions held by men vs women indicates that as women get older, they experience greater levels of age discrimination than their male counterparts.
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How to survive a recession (from the businesses that made it through the last one)
Date: 23 August 2022
Originally appeared in Startups
We speak to the SMEs that lived through the 2008 credit crunch to hear their thoughts and advice on surviving an economic downturn – and how to thrive afterward.
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You can be successful in “unretirement” says Next-Up founder, Victoria Tomlinson
Date: 16 August 2022
Originally appeared on BizVision
Host Malcolm Gallagher says; Myself and my wife Kim have stuck to our Silverpreneurs concept, “business begins at 50 plus”, which is now going global. And it’s why I was totally excited to have the opportunity to meet a highly successful supporter of unretirement, Victoria Tomlinson.
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'Toxic, woke discriminatory' - what it's REALLY like to return to work after retirement
Date: 16 August 2022
Originally appeared in Express
Pensioners are being forced back into the workplace as inflation rockets but too many face age discrimination and workplace ‘wokeness’ when they get there.
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‘Championing age’: how business can win back older workers
Date: 11 August 2022
Originally appeared in Raconteur
The boss of John Lewis has called on the government to find ways to encourage lost workers aged over 50 to return to the labour market to help the UK economy, but business must also play its part in enticing them back.
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Why traditional retirement is bad for business
Date: August 2022
Originally appeared in Global banking and finance
Ageism in the workplace perpetuates the attitude that older people are a liability or that they should be simply written off instead of an asset to be valued and nurtured like younger employees. Yet if we could turn these perceptions on their heads, company leaders could find they have the answer to many business problems under their noses.
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Help people use their skills in new ways in unretirement
Date: 7 August 2022
Originally appeared in Best Start-Up
A generation of people now retiring want to move on from their old 24/7 working life and do ‘something new’ but have no idea what or how.
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Britain on a tightrope: just how bad will a recession be?
Date: 7 August 2022
Originally appeared in The Times
The Bank of England stunned the City with its forecasts of economic doom. Jill Treanor asks whether the UK is staring at mass unemployment once again.
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We need to rethink retirement and give 50-plus employees more opportunity
Date: 6 August 2022
Originally appeared in Yorkshire Post
A director recently told me the last six months of his working life were some of the worst times he had ever had.
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Preparing for the Future of Work
Date: 27 July 2022
Originally appeared in Authority Magazine / Medium – member content
There have been major disruptions in recent years that promise to change the very nature of work. A report by the McKinsey Global Institute that estimated automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030.
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Do you really want to retire
Date: 22 July 2022
Originally appeared in Leeds Living
With a UK skills gap and an untapped resource in those of retirement age, Victoria Tomlinson believed this could be resolved by re-thinking retirement itself.
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Why the UK needs older people trained in tech to answer the skills gap
Date: 20 July 2022
Originally appeared in Amazing Workplaces
In business, success may depend on technological transformation. Yet, suppose older people in leadership positions don’t have the training to understand the new tech and its value.
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UK law firms rethink ageism
Date: 16 March 2022
Originally appeared in the Financial Times
Brian Eagles is looking forward to being back in his Mayfair office three days a week, and has been working on a media acquisition for a US client. “I miss being in the office and the camaraderie and buzz,” he says.
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The old are more of an asset than a liability
Date: 4 November 2020
Originally appeared in the Financial Times
Pilita Clark highlights the pressing need to rethink our expectations of age and retirement
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Retirement needs a complete rethink
Date: October 2020
Originally appeared in Modern Lawyer
Law firms need to help partners plan for retirement – and be excited about this future. That way everyone is a winner.
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City lawyers may struggle to come to terms with retirement
Date: 10 September 2020
Originally appeared in The Times
Some frazzled lawyers spend their careers dreaming of retirement, but others feel their identity is so wrapped up in work that it is hard to walk away.
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New mentoring initiative for tech entrepreneurs and business leaders
Date: 6 October 2019
Originally appeared in Harrogate Informer
Next-Up has launched its innovative mentoring scheme to support tech entrepreneurs in Leeds City Region
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Tech entrepreneurs swap notes with seasoned directors
Date: 30 November 2018
Originally appeared in The BusinessDesk
It’s not often you see a 20-something music business influencer swapping notes with a 50-something director of a top FTSE company. But creative brainstorming between young tech entrepreneurs and older professionals was at the heart of Next-Up’s first conference in Leeds earlier this month.
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Next-Up, a one-of-a-kind platform to help people leaving corporate life use their skills in unretirement
Date: October 2018
Originally appeared in Living North
We are fitter and healthier than ever – and living longer. People can now spend longer retired than they did working. Some will want to garden, travel, look after grandchildren, but others feel they have so much experience and expertise that they want to share, they just struggle to offer it.
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