Anyone thathas admittance the discussions in our Linkedin Job Search Networking Groupknows that I am not a huge member in age discrimination. That doesn'tmean I think it doesn't happen. What it does object is that I don't thinkit happens as frequently as many candidates do. In fact, I take itis far and wide more scarce than most.
Well I am wrong. Age discrimination is alive, living, and achievement totally well. My last two presidency searches prove that I'm incorrect and it unconditionally exists.
I have beenretained to fill a CFO and VP Manufacturing search. Both positions arevery senior level bad skin and in two substitute companies. In a normalsearch, we will gift 4 or 5 candidates to the client before theyhire one of them. These two were a little different. I had presented mynormal 5 candidates and the client was enthusiastic in, but not sold on,a couple of the candidates. They nevertheless wanted to look a few more. (Bythe habit as a side journey, in today's make public that is enormously common.Clients seem to always want to look a few more. After all, there are somany candidates upon the market.)
Thecandidates they liked were every 7 or 8's upon a scale of 1 - 10. They allhad 15-20 years of experience and judging from considering they graduated fromcollege, ranged in age from tardy 30's to mid-40's. Both of these jobswere entirely senior, and due to the plants of the challenges facing thecompanies required a real height of experience and not just the normaldepth one gets in 15-20 years. These candidates just weren't "mature or experienced" acceptable were the words the clients used.
As theclient requested, I presented 2 more candidates to each company. Theselast 4 candidates all had no less than 30 years of experience, and allhad graduated from teacher in the tardy 70's and to come 80's. You can dothe math on their ages. My guess is mid to late 50's and possibly even60. To no real incredulity my clients each hired one of these 4. Thecomment the client made to me at some point during the hiring processwas, "If I can acquire a good 3-5 years from them, that is all one canexpect in today's world, and I'm more than fine considering that. Hell, I maynot even be here in 5 years."
WOW, a positive court case of age discrimination if I ever motto one. The first action was clearly discriminated adjoining due to their age.
Again,before you write me a nasty comment, I enter upon age discrimination exists.But it works both ways. I furthermore don't undertake all era a persondoesn't get a position, especially more senior candidates, it is agediscrimination. Often they are just plain over-qualified for the job,just as these candidates were under-qualified for these jobs.
Part 2 onthis subject will be more in-depth as to some further contributing factorsthat helped the second intervention win the job. There is hope, and byfollowing the suggestions in allowance 2, you can avoid age discriminationon either side of the equation.
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