Filled with inspiring stories from real people who have changed careers mid-life, What's Next? is an exciting roadmap for anyone looking to make their next job their dream job. From a former mortgage banker who's back in the classroom to a tough cop turned Nashville music agent, these in-depth testimonials offer encouragement and adviceand prove that it's possible to pursue your passion. Authored by Kerry Hannon, a celebrated journalist and leading authority on careers and personal finance, What's Next? offers those seeking a more fulfilling path the tools to get started and the inspiration to do it now.
Kerry Hannon is an award-winning author and career reinvention expert. She is a nationally acclaimed personal finance and retirement authority and the AARP Jobs Expert. She writes the Great Jobs for Retirees column on AARP.com. She is a Contributing Editor for Forbes Magazine and writes the Second Verse column. She writes a personal finance column for boomer women at the PBS website, NextAvenue.org. Her NEW book is Great Jobs for Everyone 50+ (John Wiley & Sons, September, 2012).
Her previous book, WHAT'S NEXT? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books), is a winner of the Independent Book Publishers medal for Career and Business Books and Axiom Business book award. Hannon is also the Money section book review columnist for USA Today.
Hannon is the author of Getting Started In Estate Planning (John Wiley & Sons), Suddenly Single: Money Skills for Divorcees and Widows (John Wiley & Sons), Ten Minute Guide to Retirement for Women (MacMillan Publishing), and You and Your Money: A Passage from Debt to Prosperity (Credit Education Group). She has penned one non-fiction saga of an American Indian Trading Post, Trees in a Circle: The Teec Nos Pos Story (Teec Nos Pos Trading Post).
Hannon has previously served as a reporter and personal finance columnist for USA Today and as a writer and editor for U.S. News & World Report, Money, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, and Forbes. She was a regular women and money columnist for iVillage.com.
Hannon's work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Institutional Investor and Advertising Age, among other national publications.
She has appeared as a financial expert on ABC News, CBS, Fox, CNBC, and CNN and has been a guest on numerous radio programs, including National Public Radio's "Talk of The Nation."
Hannon received a Bachelor of Art's degree from Duke University and is currently a member of an editorial board at Duke.
For more on Kerry, visit, http://www.kerryhannon.com/
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