#465 Career Continuers: how to relook at retirement and develop career longevity

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This is the fifth and final episode of the Squiggly Career Stage Series – 5 days of podcast episodes and practical tools to help you succeed in your career.

We’ve focused on 5 stages where we know people need some extra squiggly support and in today’s episode we’re looking at Squiggly Career Continuers, to help people relook at retirement and develop career longevity.

Sarah and Helen share their insights on continuing your career into later life and talk to two people to learn from their expertise; Avivah Wittenberg-Cox a thought leader specialising in gender and generational balance and Andrew Aitken, Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.
0:07.1	This episode is part of our Squiggly Career Stage series where we're talking about five different
0:12.1	career stages and sharing some insights and some ideas that we hope will help you specifically
0:17.3	succeed in these moments in your squiggly career.
0:20.7	We're covering career starters,
0:23.1	returners, setbacks, changes, and today our focus is on career continuers. And I am
0:30.0	passionate about all the stages that we've covered, but I think today's topic of continuers
0:34.8	is just one where I feel like there's still a lot of work to do.
0:39.6	Obviously for individuals in this stage, that might be you if you're listening.
0:43.0	There might be quite a lot of things for you to do and consider about your career,
0:45.4	which is what we're trying to help you with.
0:46.8	But I just feel broadly there is more work to be done here.
0:50.7	And I'm actually really excited about how squiggly careers can make that happen and be
0:55.0	supportive to people at this stage. So maybe consider today's episode kind of a start to our work
1:00.1	on career continuers. We recognise that other people have expertise that we don't in this area. And that
1:05.8	is why we have guests on this episode to share some of that with you. So you are going to hear
1:09.9	from my conversation with
1:11.4	Andrew Aitken, who's an economist at the OECD. Well, sounds very formal. We don't often have
1:16.1	economists on the podcast, but the OECD is the organisation for economic cooperation and development.
1:21.6	They work with over 100 countries to promote policies that improve economic and social
1:25.6	well-being of people. They have done a really
1:27.8	good report, which I actually went to Paris to launch, which is the report on promoting better
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