Boom Time

Connecting baby boomers with companies that need seasoned workers sounded like a golden ticket to Timothy Hearon, a software entrepreneur in the employee recruiting industry.

Other companies have tried the niche with varied, but usually limited success in the traditional employee recruitment model, where clients are charged per job placement. It's a potential lucrative niche, given 10,000 boomers leave the workforce every day — many who want to keep doing something meaningful, according to Pew Research.

So Hearon comes to the field with a twist: Sarasota-based Boomerswork, which charges companies a $250 monthly fee for access to a list of software-produced, finely tuned candidates who have recently retired or semi-retired from other careers. In return for the monthly fee companies receive a confidential PDF dossier on each matching candidate. The packet includes a full profile, references, a five-minute video interview and the results of a psychological character test.