TORONTO -- It’s become harder for workers 45 years and older to secure jobs, according to a new study. Hiring managers perceived mid-career job seekers as having weaker skills compared to younger candidates, despite the former often outperforming the latter., found "the most overlooked employee bracket” are Gen-Xers – born in the mid-1960s to early-1980s – and older. They found this was a consistent trend among several different countries, including the U.K. and the U.S.
This group said they had to engage in 53 percent more interviews to get a job offer -- compared to only 31 percent of their younger peers feeling that. The study found hiring managers showed strong bias against older job seekers, with them believing that “younger candidates are more application-ready, have more relevant experience, and are a better fit with company culture.”EMPLOYERS PRAISED WORKERS AGED 45+Managers reported 87 per cent of their employees aged 45 or older were as good, if not better, than younger cohorts, with the study results showing nine out of 10 of older workers had potential to stay at their firms long-term.
😡😡😡😡generation that have strong working morals 😡😡😡😡 so pisses us off
Lets face it the facts technology has skewered most good jobs and only 16 to 30 can do the fast repetition jobs so we all need aome financial help...
It was always difficult for GenXers, even in the 1980s. The Greed decade benefited the yuppie baby boomers, no jobs for the following generation.
I don’t think this is a new thing. When I came out of college 27 years ago, I saw people in their mid fifties struggling with this very thing.
Canada is a very tough place to find/keep a decent job. Have a look at job boards in the US and you will see employers trying to entice veterans back into the civilian workforce. Here the feds want to kill oil and gas jobs and have no plans for anybody except EI.
Follow up call after interview: it was between me & other candidate…. Same experience/qualifications but she was younger so better fit for them. Yah… not okay…. I can fight it… but for what gain First time I heard what other employers were likely thinking - it stung. 😞
Here's a thought for employers and their predilection to assume it's the younger set who 'knows' the tech....it's a myth and besides? Someone in the 50s right now, successful in the career has adapted to more technological change than someone in their 20/30s can imagine exists.
Yes it sure is.
Gen-X here. Only soul-sucking jobs available, if you're lucky.
Ageism
One factor people are not taking into consideration sometime companys preffer younger cause they ate more malible in other words they belive older people are two set in their ways to teach them new things or to come up with new ideas which is false older people have great ideas
Gen-X chefs also because all those Millennial babies don't know how to fucking cook.
Demographically gen x is a much smaller swath of the population....there is always so much focus on 'young people can't get a job' but I would be willing to bet the underemployment in gen x is far more palpable and economically trying.
Ive been trying for 6 years to get a better job. I have the skills but no chance given.
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