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...glad
you dropped in!
Available Jones is an employment agency for retired people, a concept
whose time has come. There may well be other efforts underway all around the
world among small and large offices to bring retired workers to the attention of
willing employers. Available Jones is just one, albeit an early one.
One clue
that this is an idea whose time has come is that the media has been so
interested in it. In Columbia Missouri, where we set up shop, the print, radio
and TV outlets have been generous in covering the endeavor, and to my
own amazement, Available Jones has garnered national coverage:
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American
Express’ “Horizons” magazine printed a story in their Spring 2001
issue
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The Wall
Street Journal mentioned AJ as part of a front page feature May 30, 2001
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AARP
covered the story on their website,
www.AARP.org and still has it in the archives section.
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SCORE
(service corps of retired executives) profiled AJ in their magazine and on their
website, www.score.org where it remains archived.
At this
time (early 2003) Available Jones is operating solely in Columbia,
Missouri, yet a couple of placements have occurred in St. Louis and Kansas
City. However,
as a result of national publicity, many would-be-workers (and a few
would-be-employers), have phoned or e-mailed to ask whether there was an Available Jones office in their area.
Even though we’ll never go
head-on with MONSTER.COM - or any other established job search agency, “retired
people working” is definitely a niche market, and the concept should spread and
exist locally, wherever locally is.
I don't
want to go through the hassle of setting up real
franchises, so please check out the section of this site titled “virtual
franchise”.
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