Web site hopes to bring job boom to baby boomers

Do you remember where you were when JFK was shot? Were you laid off recently from a manufacturing job? Well the new web site, www.50plusprime.com, is just for you. It aims to pair baby boomers with online, non-credit courses to help out in the new economy.

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Online, non-credit courses with the LEARN program aim to help baby boomers laid off from manufacturing industry jobs answer that question, said University of Michigan professor Lynn Wooten, who helped to develop the program's curriculum.

Courses made available at www.50plusprime.com will aim to provide tools and the plans to find work in sectors identified as areas of growth in the state. Those areas include health care, technology, and sustainable energy, said Wooten, who teaches human resource management with the U-M Ross School of Business Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship.

"There is a bridge between your former career and your new career," said Tony Fama, the president of the company that runs www.50plusprime.com. "Courses show where to go to school, the salary levels, where they can get financial aid, things like that, but it won't teach them to be a registered nurse, it will guide them. As the year progresses and we launch other classes."

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