Jobs and Older Applicants
March 14th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
The modern world has seen many plant closures and massive layoffs. In some cases, older workers receive “buyouts” or early pensions. In many cases, though, they are just given their notice and a month’s pay. Those older workers then discover that it can be hard to get a job due to their age. Some (many?) employers prefer a younger workforce, not realizing the benefits that come from hiring some of us “old” ones.
Fortunately, employers are starting to see the potential of older and much-experienced applicants as can be seen by the statistics below:
- In Australia, Bureau of Statistics showed that between the period of August of 1989 to that of August of 2003, the workforce aged 15-24 lost more than 380,000 jobs to older workers. Aside from the fact that most of Australia’s younger generation became full-time students, employers favored the older applicants.
- In Netherlands on the other hand (by December of 2000), over 500,000 thousand of their employees are 55 years old and above. This figure had been increasing steadily since 1995.
