So true Pericles. The only thing that matters when I am employing anyone, is whether I prefer that person for the job.

It doesn't matter if I don't want someone because he/she has a moustache, & I don't like moustaches, or their voice is at a pitch I don't like, that is my choice, & no commissioner of anything is going to tell me to hire someone I don't chose.

I have found some young people, even if not highly qualified, quickly grow into a job & exceed your requirements. Some are so bone idle they are not worth the air they breathe. You do get fairly good at seeing which is which, with time.

I have also had some older men in particular who had high levels of previous employment, who were really happy to step back into a less demanding, & lower paying position, & quite a few women who wanted less hours than they had previously worked.

All of these were good value. I found that with experience I would get a feeling for an applicant, & this was more important than qualifications, or to some extent experience.

Personally I missed a couple of jobs because the employer thought I was too highly qualified, but was head hunted at 54, so I could not say age was a problem.

'...a new survey has revealed one in 10 bosses won't hire a worker older than 50'

As most people tend to give 'socially desirable' responses on surveys, it would be safe to say that A LOT more than one in 10 bosses would not hire a 50+ worker. It's just that only one in 10 will admit to it.

Anecdotal evidence about ageism in the workplace is HUGE. And it's a problem that will only get worse as governments yield to pressure to keep putting up the retirement/pension age.

'Two out of three workers aged between 55 and 64 said they had been turned down for a job, and 28 per cent had been refused a promotion.'

How dare they!

1 in 3 have never been turned down for a job and 72% never been refused a promotion? Wow!

Maybe it's the pompous 'I've been doing this since you were in nappies' attitude of entitlement that grates.

'older survey participants, particularly women, feel'
Hahahaha. Less said about that the better. Gotta love a survey about how people feel as a basis for doing anything. I 'feel' I am entitled to a top job on a great salary, and people are nasty for not giving to it to me.

Who really WOULD want someone who has this attitude any more than a Lazy Gen-Y.

I agree with Douglas and Pericles. Though it pains me to agree with a Pom who invented leg theory.

In my workplace there is nobody under 30 and more than half over 40 and even about a quarter over 50. Maybe we discriminate against young people. The owner is 70 after all

Spookily deja vu-ish... I've experienced workplaces like that.

"In my workplace there is nobody under 30 and more than half over 40 and even about a quarter over 50. Maybe we discriminate against young people. The owner is 70 after all"

Mind you, the numbers didn't refer to age, but to IQ.

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so im aiming at being the rubbish collector..on lamb island

but how to connect with the big guy..to apply
but i got a plan..man..help make me explain it there

im..the perfect rubbish guy
let me give it a try

anyhow..things change
and as things change..we dis empower..those looting society

how may things change
by saying no..its over..your serving shareholders
by abusing householders..[govt works for main..street..not suburbia

well..the lamb roars
[lamb-island..is succeeding in secession
and will..have their own banking credits systems..just wasit and see

or help..make it happen
we do have alternatives..

anyhow
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6040&page=0

Anecdotal evidence suggests there is plenty of ageism in employment but the broadness of the stats bothers me.

1 in 10 employers! That does not tell us about how many jobs are impacted. Are they from a mostly even spread across industries and size of company or concentrated in some way that alter the equation. Is it 1 in 10 jobs open for recruitment not open to over 50's or a very different figure?

R0bert