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.

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.

So this happens across the board irrespective of what. Happens in so many different countries spread across the world. Ultimately it also takes place in different types of companies irrespective of what industry it is. So it is not something that is specific to in specific industry or type of work.

This happens all the time. It's not something that is just only now recently occurred, it is a trend that has taken place for many decades. However, the fact that older people have started to accept it and don't even apply for positions any longer because they know the definitely won't get it based on the age is something that needs to stop.

That is why this happens is very unclear. However, when it comes all boils down to why it is being done, it is obvious to see that's older people are discriminated against. Although companies cannot prove that younger people are more suitable or qualified for the position, they have this general mentality that older people are stickier and less healthy than young 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 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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