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Hybrid working has dissolved the old dress code, and the interview suit no longer carries the certainty it once did. We speak to recruiters and image consultants about what confident presentation looks like at 50-plus, whether you're on a video call or walking back into a boardroom.
Phased retirement is treated as the natural endpoint of a career, but is it? This opinion-led guide offers an honest framework for choosing between stepping back, stepping up or starting something entirely new — and challenges the assumption that winding down is the default.
Thousands of British women in their fifties and sixties are swapping five-day seniority for three-day sanity — and finding their careers flourish rather than fizzle. We look at what the trade-off really costs, what it quietly returns, and why the maths is more forgiving than most fear.
A growing number of UK professionals in their fifties and sixties are swapping management meetings for toolbags, training as plumbers, electricians and heat pump installers. We look at the practicalities — funding, wages and employer attitudes — and at what happens when the mentor-apprentice hierarchy is turned on its head.
Recruiters spend seconds on a first pass of a CV — and too many later-career applicants give them reasons to stop reading. Here is how to modernise your CV and LinkedIn profile so your experience reads as an asset, not a warning sign.
Apprenticeships are no longer the preserve of school leavers. A growing number of Britons over 50 are deliberately trading seniority for a toolbag or a terminal — and finding that starting again is less a demotion than a release. We examine the funding, the providers and the mindset behind the trend.