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I think stupidity in business is really an interesting thing. What winds up happening is a disconnect between your company's strategic management and….
I think what's happening is companies are trying to maximize shareholder value and I think they realized that if they could hire more effectively, th….
I feel sorry for human resource people nowadays. HR is marginalized. No one really pays much attention to what's going on in HR and HR struggles with….
When you're not recruiting effectively you're not recruiting properly through a certain channel, like a job board, then what's left of you? I don't b….
Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity….
Sure, some employers are are afraid of letting older workers go because they think they're going to get sued. And they probably will get sued. But th….
I think that the big age problem in the job market today is really on the part of employers and that they don't seem to be calculating the cost of ag….
There are some older workers - probably a lot - who simply don't have the skills or the wherewithal to do a certain kind of job. There, it's up to th….
An online job search seems cheaper. But what HR is doing is turning away valuable candidates. They're experiencing false negatives. That means the ri….
I really don't think that an older worker can stop age discrimination, but you can successfully distract the employer from that issue if you focus on….
Remember, the word "discrimination" isn't always pejorative. When an employer discriminates because an older worker lacks certain kinds of skills tha….
Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledg….
On a strategic level, employers really are behaving stupidly. Look at how they do recruiting: this automated process under which they will publish a ….
I really think you cannot separate the money from the age. When employers discriminate over age, they're also discriminating over money. Older worker….
The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work..
There is age discrimination, but I think there are two kinds. One is when the employer is discriminating for specific reasons and doing it intentiona….