February 19, 2010

In This Issue...

• Avoiding age discrimination
• Featured Job Postings
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Avoiding age discrimination

Despite the aging U.S. population, the youthful look remains a popular one in many segments of American life. This is true in the workplace, even as many Baby Boomers want, or need, to work into their 60s but find that employers are distinctly cool to their applications.

Age discrimination is illegal in the United States, but that does not stop employers from practicing it.

As the AARP points out in a booklet it has produced, “Job Hunting: Your Guide to Success,” a case of rejecting an older applicant could be flagrant age discrimination or it could just be ignorance on the part of the employer. This ignorance could manifest itself, for example, if an interviewer asks a job applicant the age of the person’s children.

The AARP cautions that the following comments or attitudes, either in a want ad or during a job interview, might signal age discrimination:

• The employer wants a younger looking person for the job.
• “Needs new blood.”
• Someone says there is no job opening, but the next day a position is advertised.
• The employer assumes an applicant would not want a job because of being “over-qualified.”
• The applicant is asked when s/he graduated from college.
• The applicant is asked if there would be any problems working for a younger supervisor.  

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