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mercredi 31 janvier 2018

Dealing With 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.

Ages and basically affects people who are above a certain age. When you apply for the job certain information is required of you that you must provide. One of those details is your age. So ultimately irrespective of how experienced you are, you may be declined purely based on your age.

What basically happens is that even though you have more experience in the next person, the next person is actually given the job because you are older than that specific person. It might sound very unfair and in reality it really is however it is common practice across the board in many different companies irrespective of the industry.

So it doesn't matter what industry you are applying at what company you are applying at for that matter as well. Ultimately, this is simply a stereotype that is attached to aging or the aging process in general. So all the people always seen as less fit than younger ones.

It is not something that has been happening since now, it has always been happening and is taken place for the past couple of decades. This is mainly because a certain stereotypes attached with all people. It also has created a sort of generational gap between employees as well.

That is why companies have this approach to all the people is because of the negative stereotype that has been created in the minds of people when it comes to aging persons. Ultimately for some reason older people acting as unhealthier, more unfit, and sickly. So for this reason companies would prefer to hire younger people as opposed to hiding older people.

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 if you are ever faced with this predicament, you definitely should fight for your rights. If you know that you are able to do a job more competently than the next individual who is being hired, you should basically fight for your rights. In most countries the mandatory retirement age law has been abolished, and some countries that even coming out with anti-discrimination laws that are preventing companies from declining you for the position based on your age only.




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