AARP employment program

Sally

Have any of you had any experience with the AARP Senior Community Service Employment Program? I'd never heard of it until I got a fax today with a 2 week trial at no cost to the employer. The fax says they will refer one or more enrollees to apply or interview for our open position and the enrollee works for us for two weeks while we assess them, and AARP pays them for those two weeks.
It sounds too good to be true--which makes me slightly suspicious--but I'd sure like to give someone in the over 50 crowd a shot at our open positions.
Are any of you familiar with--or have any thoughts on--this?

Open1

Sounds great to me! When I tried to place an employment ad with AARP, they wouldn't even think of it because our company is less than 1000 employees.

E Wart

AARP does some interesting things. I would love to hear further on this. Have you called and talked with someone and gotten ALL the info. I would get something in writing to review before I would even consider. (More than just a fax).
E Wart

Sally

I tried calling the person who sent the fax but she had gone for the day. She was to call me back today but so far, nothing. I'd sure like to pursue this and fill the position with someone with hopefully a different perspective on things.

BettyBoop FL

Our agency has used this program with good success. We currently have an employee who is about to retire again who has been wonderful. Initially we had her for about three months under their payroll as a volunteer to us then we hired her. We have had a relationship that we were able to get volunteers for short term assignments, if they had available personnel.

System

I looked through the AARP website and think I found a page about the program you're asking about. It's at [url]http://www.aarp.org/money/careers/employerresourcecenter/recruitment/scsep.html[/url]

Good luck and let us know what you find out.

Paul in Cannon Beach

This is really interesting. We need a program like this for slouching teens and anyone with multiple piercings and tattoos.

So if the employee is injured on the job during the first two weeks, who covers it? Generally, volunteers are not covered by worker's comp.

Sally

>So if the employee is injured on the job during
>the first two weeks, who covers it? Generally,
>volunteers are not covered by worker's comp.


I knew there was another reason why I posted the question. This is something definitely to consider and check into before proceeding. Thanks for making that point. They are being paid the first two weeks by AARP, so I want to be certain who is on the hook if they are injured on the job.