50 is the new 60
RE: You are over 60 years old
You don’t have to be 60. Even a few years younger will make a hiring manager think twice. AGEISM is RAMPANT.
The average company mentality is this -— when you’re in your 50’s, your expendable (I’d love for anyone to show me a few companies that don’t think this way).
And the government has the gall to make you work till you’re 66 today for you to get your Social Security !! ( Shaking my head is sorrow ).
Companies will try to avoid hiring older workers.
While older workers may be more experienced, two things work against them. First, is that companies can generally get away with paying younger workers less money. Secondly, older workers in group insurance plans will cost the company much more in insurance premiums. So pay and benefits for older workers will cost the company money.
Another factor depends on the job. But for all but senior management type positions, the fact that someone has 20 or 30 years of experience in some field does not impress employers. If they can hire a 35 year old with a degree in a certain field and five years of experience, that’s just as good to them as a 50 year old with 25 years experience. And the younger worker will cost them less money, so the bias is towards hiring younger workers.
Absolutely. I recently applied on line for a job in a call center. Though there was nothing in the app that asked for my age, one of the on line “tests” I was required to take included an age question and there was no choice for “I’d rather not tell you”.
Their defense, if I were to raise the issue, would be that the “test” was given by a third party company, not by the company I was applying to.
I have not yet received a call back and I don’t expect one.