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It's easy to get depressed about being an older job seeker.
Still, many older job seekers insist they are losing out because of age discrimination.
Despite that progress, there still are not enough openings for older job seekers.
Dr. Ahlburg advises older job seekers to avoid citing financial troubles as a reason for returning to work.
The government is scrambling now to fill the gap in support, and older job seekers are responding.
— David Gallagher Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret — Age Bias Reuters.com | Silicon Valley's fixation with youth has older job seekers shaving their heads and wearing sneakers to interviews.
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Using PowerPoint slides, Liz Howland, the chipper but no-nonsense session leader, projected some common myths about older job-seekers on a screen: "Older workers are less capable of evaluating information, making decisions and problem-solving" or "Older workers are rigid and inflexible and have trouble adapting to change".
But bewildered older job-hunters are not alone, he added.
The unions, which gave them broad backing before the election, are now predictably raising objections to many of the central recommendations, including the creation of a low-wage sector, the reduction of job security for older job-seekers, and the relaxation of rules for temporary work and short-term contracts.
The preference for no job rather than a zero-hours job is is more prevalent among older job-seekers, according to the study by global jobs and recruitment marketplace Glassdoor, while the main reasons for rejecting the offers were the need for a guaranteed level of income in order to stop receiving benefits, and lack of trust in the prospective employers.
Another issue that comes up for older job-seekers who have lost a longtime post, she says: the feeling that they are out of the loop.
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