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Too Old to Work at Fifty
By Robert Price
Although the UK government is considering raising the age of retirement to 70. Trying to find a job at the age of fifty remains difficult. A university graduate aged fifty is less likely to find a job than one half their age, especially in the advertising arena. A reason given for this suggests that fresh ideas are commonly associated with the young, but that does not necessarily mean the ideas are brighter, more clever or even practical. Age provides experience and it is this that eventually drives us all on specific directions. Experience has shown that traditional Recruitment Agencies tend to deliberate over this age comparison in favour of younger candidates. Reliance on finding a job through a traditional recruitment agency is not something which mature candidates can rely. The Internet however has so much to offer job seekers yet is being stifled by recruitment agencies simply as a result of their use of a traditional business model that was developed in the past century. Traditional Recruitment Agencies have transferred their terrestrial activities to the Internet, but done so without taking advantage of what the Internet can really offer without the limitations associated with terrestrial businesses. The Internet should be offering speed in the form of immediacy with regards candidates and employers making contact. Unfortunately because Recruitment Agencies want their slice of a 'big cake' they have modelled their Internet presence in a way that maintains the exaggerated timescales compatible with their terrestrial offices. Fortunately online companies are being developed that make redundant the traditional recruitment experience. |
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Study after study has shown that older workers are more dependable, reliable, detail-oriented, and skilled in many areas, yet so often companies are willing to overlook this. I think it is partly because of the corporate attitude that people are expendable. I think the real reason they prefer youth is that the young are more easily hoodwinked.
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Hi Janet, I think you're right, also older people are more likely to speak out which has become unacceptable, even when it's for the good of the business. The corporate attitude is leaning towards the cloning vats to avoid free spirits. Yet it's free spirits who usually have the imaginative ideas to attain higher goals, especially the older free spirits.
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