Conquering Ageism In The Workplace

By Christine King


If you ever been caught in a predicament where you apply for the position that you know you are 100% qualified for, and yet the job was given to someone else simply because they are younger, you are not alone. This type of thing has been happening for decades and is common practice across the board. The time given to its is ageism in the workplace. This is basically a common practice of declining all the people for the position purely based on their age.

People who are over a certain age are basically subjected to this type of treatment and discrimination. So if you are above middle age or probably even approaching it, you stand to be discriminated against when applying for a job. Even though this may not be the reason given to why you application was unsuccessful.

So what basically happens is that a position is advertised and then you get a number of applicants applying for that specific role. Ultimately, the applicants will range and different in age and qualifications as well. Ultimately, when it comes to choosing the most suitable candidate, most companies go with the younger applicant. This could be due to stereotypes related to growing older.

In most cases this happens in all different types of companies. It doesn't matter whether that is a large corporation, , or a small business enterprise. Ultimately, it this type of discrimination is practice across the board irrespective of the size of the company. So where it happens is irrelevant.

It has been happening for decades and it is simply a stereotype. However there are certain laws that also encourage the stereotype one of them being the retirement age law. However, this can all be changed with time. So basically doesn't matter where or when it takes place all that matters is that it is still being practiced even told this day.

One of the things that people can do is basically try to get the laws in the countries changed. Lately the laws regarding the mandatory age for retirement has changed in certain countries and this is helping the employment process when it comes to middle-age people seeking a job.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter whether you are young or old. All that matters is that irrespective of what your age group is, you still need to support and provide for your families. So the stigma that younger people are somehow better suited for the position because of the age is something that has nearly placed more experienced and qualified individuals on the back burner.

So in an effort to try and count this will prevent this from happening, they are various things that people can do. In some countries they have implemented anti-discrimination laws which basically disallows anyone being declined for a certain position due to they age. Lots of other countries have also implemented or abolished mandatory retirement ages. Ultimately, this is all intended to prevent older people from being discriminated against.




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