I keep hearing that people over a certain age (some say 50, some say even in their late 40s) are having trouble finding new jobs due to their age. Is this true? It makes no sense to me. Experience and knowledge always used to mean something, has that changed for some reason?
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Old guard dogs makes way for new blood so to speak. It is the hard reality of life..No more package moving forward....use career discovery to explore new areas and if you don't act fast enough, you risk end up place under 'none performing' or under performing employee and then get fired eventually...
it true. now is employer market.
@1lff - Thank you!
I wasn't going to bother but you stated my feelings well. Seagate transitioned to the "new grad only" hiring around 5 or so years ago. To this day, I cannot name a single one who is truly pulling their weight in our department. Actually it placed a burden on me as I am held responsible for "nurturing" junior engineers and carrying the load on their projects. I should not be teaching them how to "learn the techology" when they are supposed to be the ones putting my age to shame.
What's up with the severance package policy for the US? It's dissapeared.
Great example of age bias and discrimination was just posted. Perfect. Lumps all people in one basket. Then says they’ve been adrift and done nothing for a decade. In reality I know multiple people of this age range who have multiple certifications proven their skills are up to date. I’ve also seen multiple people who are in twenties who have contributed nothing for years. It’s about the character of the individual. People who put others into groups and judge all of them are a big problem in general
Let's be honest. In the US most of the Seagaters that are over 40 have been there for 20+ years. Decades were spent a drift in middle management for products and projects that have faded away.
The smart ones left or got lucky and were laid off earlier. Those still there, regrettably, waited for a severance package that has now disappeared.
Of course they'll have a hard time finding a new job. It's not age discrimination, they really haven't done anything for the last 10+ years.
Surviving layoff after layoff isn't a marketable job skill.
Oh yes. Age discrimination is standard. It’s purely a cost calculation. Higher health insurance payouts, and time off for family needs. Experience isn’t valued as it should be and there is a persistent myth that younger are easier to train and manipulate like raw clay.
It's a matter of replacing salary more than anything else.
I got dinged in R@vi the Destroyer's 2019 purge. Most people who weren't young said they took a 20% cut. It took most people 6-12 months to find a position.