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Yeah i think it's impossible to ignore the possible ageism that's going on right now, but at the same time, my dad who is 62 just landed his best paying job ever. So i don't think it's out of the question that you will get hired. You just have to prove to them that you're not slowing down and you've got a lot to offer the team/pass on information to younger employees
I have a friend that I’ve been trying to place in my own org. We’ve had to alter his resume many times to even get him to the in person. I would say that you may need to take some of your experience off of your resume or shorten the duration. That’s what we had to do to his to get him in front of a recruiter. He doesn’t know it yet but he is getting an offer next week.
I think an honest answer would be yes, there probably is age discrimination in effect. The problem, of course, is that there's no way to really prove that. No one is going to say that's the reason to pass someone over, but they'll just conveniently land on another candidate. I'd say keep at it, if you've done well in some interviews you know what you're doing. And persistence is the key.
We both know it's the age. At the end of the day you'll be fine. Just make sure your actions are in line with reality. I'm in the same boat.
Extremely difficult to prove but yes, highly likely ageism.
Maybe look for contract work or a different field.
The reality is that you have an eminent expiry date. You would need to demonstrate the ability to affect significant operational improvement both while you're there and after you're gone.
I'm in tech too, and I'm 61 - I totally get it. Here are some of my thoughts on how to handle this:
1) Tailor your resume to only show the last 20 or so years of experience. Anything beyond that is rarely relevant and makes you look older anyway.
2) Speaking of resume, remove dates like the years you received degrees. If they really want to know they will ask.
3) Most companies that don't want older people feel this way because they are concerned about how long you will stay before you retire and/or higher healthcare costs. For this reason you may be far better off looking at larger firms that separate HR functions from hiring decisions. Hiring managers are taught these days to think more about diversity and inclusivity, so they won't (or shouldn't) care.
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Age discrimination should be illegal and should be a fire able and fineable offense. You can’t lie under oath.
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I think employers should stop that habit of hiring technicians basing on age(-49)
We operate a labor marketplace for IT field service professionals, and one of the most surprising trends we've seen is older technicians with decades of experience choosing to contract. IT field service, in general, trends older, with over half of the workforce nearing retirement age. One thing I know for sure is that some of the highest-sought-after technicians are in their 70s. In field service, nothing trumps experience, and someone who knows how to effectively problem-solve on-site is invaluable. I also track job openings, and can tell you that this is the lowest I've seen in 5 years. I suspect we'll see more investment in 2025, leading to more jobs opening up. Your skill set and experience is invaluable - the right company will see that.
I'm 59 and I have experienced age discrimination since I was in my mid-40s.
Unfortunately, it is the last form of discrimination that can legally be practiced in the world of work, these days.
I once interviewed for a job when I was 44 years old back in 2010 for an IT Position with a well-known non-profit who gives grants out to Ken Burns and Florentine Films so Mr. Burns can do his documentaries and the lady that was interviewing me was head of their IT Department in Palo Alto, probably no older than 28 or 29, eight months' pregnant, and telling me that the job I was applying for was "beneath me".
At that point, that was the end of the interview and since a staffing firm was having me go through this for them, it helped me to end my relationship with them a month later, because basically they knew that I was being set up to fail as I knew many of the other candidates and they got the same response and the candidate that once worked that position was doing more than just IT work for this company, but was also functioning as its janitor at times doing "busy work", so I probably dodged a bullet, there.
I still watch Ken Burns' documentaries, these days, but aren't so fond of the non-profit's vanity card showing up at the beginning and end of the documentary.
After leaving California and finding "justa jobs" for work until I could land my next IT job, I found a lot of age discrimination out there, from the "empty suit" who listed IT as his skill on his LinkedIn profile (IT is a job classification, and not a skill as it encompasses a multitude of skills) and that alone compelled me to kill the interview process because of first impressions of the "empty suit" being a dummy for starters who probably got their job because their uncle was on the board of directors.
Even in my last "justa job", I found that as the management teams got younger and younger, they were more likely to push their older workers out the door, even if they did the job correctly and with no errors, focusing more on productivity more than quality, which went against my set of professional work ethics, where the job needed to be done right instead of fast and these jerks "wanted both", which in my experience isn't really doing a job right.
The job market is once again screwed up in its priorities over finding the right people to do their jobs in the first place, as many employers out there want to find the folks with the most recent education and even experience these days and focusing little on the quality of the work done as well as the attitude of the employee doing the work.
And when it comes to older workers, especially if they have a specific skill that's been honed over decades of work and experience, about the only option left may be self-employment, which in turn has its own problems and after I tried that from 2008 to 2013, I found myself in my own Bankruptcy proceedings.
Of course there will be discrimination, there's no way around it. I'm just 49 and it already happened to more than once. It's a young people world, always been. Luckily there are still some good remote jobs now.
Ageism is rampant