On the flip side I find it funny (wah wah, not ha ha funny) that 50 and 60 year old skilled professionals are often undesirable hires, especially in tech and business.
Conventional wisdom held they lacked up to date knowledge and skills of fresh grads which these days is increasingly untrue and older employees often know how to.. actually make things work and be reliable often times.
The second main factor was always investment- that companies either didn’t want to hire employees that they had no reasonable expectation of getting many years of service from or whom they would invest time and money to train and then lose.
Many modern workplaces now operate on 1-5 years max service at a single company, especially with employees in their 30’s and younger, and training isn’t what it used to be but that is irrelevant when you have an average turn around of 1-5 years on a hire.
Conventional wisdom held they lacked up to date knowledge and skills of fresh grads which these days is increasingly untrue and older employees often know how to.. actually make things work and be reliable often times.
The second main factor was always investment- that companies either didn’t want to hire employees that they had no reasonable expectation of getting many years of service from or whom they would invest time and money to train and then lose.
Many modern workplaces now operate on 1-5 years max service at a single company, especially with employees in their 30’s and younger, and training isn’t what it used to be but that is irrelevant when you have an average turn around of 1-5 years on a hire.