Media
& Press Coverage
- The Best Kept Secret - September 24, 2007. "Going back to work" View Article
- The Globe and Mail - March 17, 2007. "Are we facing a job market of Frankenworkers?" View Article
- The Globe and Mail - February 2, 2007. "Would a veteran have fumbled?" View Article
- yorkregion.com - December 7, 2006. "Province on verge of changing retirement laws" View Article
- The Globe and Mail - August 5, 2006. "Thinking of working past 65? Think again" View Article
- The Hamilton Spectator - July 28, 2006. "Many retirees are using their 'third life' to embrace dream career" View Article
- CA Magazine - June 2006. "50 is the new 25" View Article
- The Globe and Mail - Report On Business - June 2, 2006. "Freedom 55? No thanks, I'd rather be working" View Article
- National Post - May 9, 2006. "When golden years mean a job" View Article
- The Globe and Mail - February 4, 2006. "'Working retired' in demand as work force ages" View Article
- Drake International - January 31, 2006. "Drake promotes Canada's mature workforce with acquisition of Prime50" View Article
- The Windsor Star - November 24, 2005. "Senior workers untapped resource in job market" View Article
- The Toronto Sun - November 5, 2005. "Where are all the job offers?" View Article
- Niagara This Week - September 30, 2005. "Downsized over-50 crowd finds an ally in Prime50" View Pages 1,
2
- Edmonton Commerce News - September Issue. "Job quality - the key to older workers" View Article
- Halifax Herald - September 12, 2005. "Far from the pasture" View PDF 1, 2
- Business in Vancouver - September 6, 2005. "Prime50 retooling retirement for the greying workforce" View PDF
- The Vancouver Sun - August 5, 2005. "Site caters to mature job hunters" View Article
- The Globe and Mail - July 4, 2005. "Hung out to dry in mid-life" View Article
- Prime50 Media Release - July 4, 2005. "Newest centre in Vancouver" View PDF
- The Halifax Daily News - June 30, 2005. "For mature audiences" View Article
- Saskatoon Star Phoenix - June 29, 2005. "New life for older workers" View Page 1,
2
- Forever Young Newspaper - June 28, 2005. "Employment boom for older Canadians" View Article
- Business Edge - April 12, 2005. "Over-50s get boost in tough job market" View Article
- CanadaJobs.com - April 5, 2005. "Over 50 and looking for work?" View Article
- Business Executive Magazine - March 2005. HRPAO Feature "The Human Element" View PDF
- Dundas Star and Ancaster News - February 28, 2005. "Employment service helps older workers" View PDF
- The Globe and Mail - January 29, 2005. "Time for some new tips for older job seekers" View PDF
- Windsor Star - January 2005. "Over 50 wanted" View PDF
- Profit Guide magazine - December 2004. "Hiring older workers" View PDF
- York Region Business Time - November 2004. "50-Plus workforce often overlooked" View PDF
- "Hiring Older Workers" Article from Les Affaires,
"Barry Witkin, President and founder of Prime 50+, an
organization newly created for the age 50+ job seekers and
the employers who want to hire them, suggest that companies who downsized
them and are required to pay the obligation for
the pension plan of the age 50+ employees, should ask
Ottawa to finance a part of the hiring of older workers and also,
ask all provinces to put an end to mandatory retirement (it has
already been done in Quebec). Previously a Chartered Accountant,
now retired, Barry Witkin created Prime 50+ during the summer
of 2003 to help workers 50 years old and older to find work
and to offer employers a bank of employees in this category. The
organization already has three offices in Ontario and wants to
expand in Canada, as well as in Quebec." View PDF (french version)
- In a C.D. Howe Institute's Commentary, "Aging Populations
and the Workforce: Challenge for Employers", William B.P. Robson,
Senior Vice-president and Director of Research reviews the demographic
shift in the working population and notes that workers aged 50+
will be needed to fill the gap. Barry Witkin, a retired Chartered
Accountant, has started Prime50 to promote the 50+ age group to
employers in "Answering The Need For A Changing WorkForce";
Vancouver Island News Group: Nanaimo News Bulletin, Lifestyles,
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004, Page: 0031.
- On Monday March 26, 2004, CBC Radio One broadcast
a documentary with host Anna Marie Tremonti that explored the
issues of people who need to continue working even if they would
like to retire. Barry Witkin was interviewed and gave his insight
on the plight of the 50+ workers who can't retire as well as those
50+ individuals who are seeking employment opportunities.
- CBC Radio One FM broadcast a program "Sounds like Canada" hosted
by Shelagh Rogers on Tuesday March 2/04 at 10:15 am which discussed
the difficulties that the 50+ individual is having in obtaining
employment opportunities. The 50+ unemployed guests
interviewed: was 62 year old man from Halifax, formerly
a 35 year employee of Kodak, and a 57 year old woman
from Toronto, an administrative support person both of whom shared
their experiences over the past year on how they were desperately
trying to find a job. Prime50 Employment Services was asked by
the CBC to provide case studies from their database of job seekers
so that listeners could hear heart wrenching stories of the difficulties
of the 50+ workforce getting jobs. It was on this basis
that Prime50 was established because of all the false perceptions
and myths of the 50+ workforce and the need to have a specialized company
dedicated to the needs of the 50+ to be the catalyst for
change in the workplace by providing employment opportunities and
career services to the 50+ and give them the tools and confidence
to enhance their chances for employment.
- Barry Witkin, a member of the advisory group of CARP's Award
for the "Best Employers for the 50+" has written an article for
the Oct/Nov issue of the "Carp Action" supplement of Prime50 Magazine
on the "Tips and Facts on Employment Issues for the 50+ person."
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