Watching this weeks Dispatches programme Too Old To Work it made me think how hard it must be, to be out of work for the rest of your life regardless of whether you want to work or not. As a recruiter it made me think about the fairly new legistlation in a new light.
As the amount of unemployed people in the UK is about to reach £2 million the programme shows how bad age discrimination in the UK actually is, despite the law.
The investigation shows that being older is being classed as a risk in the workplace, older people are more likely to lose there job and fail to secure another position. With the current job market being flooded with candidates it has become a very competitive market, this is leaving older people to look less attractive as a new employee.
The programme reveals that the commonly-held prejudices against older people may be entirely misplaced because many have as active, if not more active brains than their younger counterparts.
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February 12th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
This programme only touched on the level of age discrimination in the accoutancy recruitment industry. The recruitment agencies in this sector filter CVs and reject most candidates over 38 years old.
Further, candidates over 38 years are discouraged from applying for positions because the recruiters use “weasel words” like “newly qualified” “recently qualified” etc. to target younger candidates.