Needing to Hire? Think Wrinkles
Today's article will be of special interest to two groups of folks: employers who need competent, experienced and responsible employees; and competent, experienced, responsible people with wrinkles who want to work in our country's economy, which needs their skills but is haunted by bias and prejudice against the older worker.
But first, a question:
Who hasn't read stories about companies that have downsized, profiting by laying off employees close to retirement age -- and winding up getting sued by the government for this horrible way of treating people?
"This is one of the worst examples of ageism," says Dr. Mark Novak, Professor of Sociology and Dean of Extended Education and which I just finished reading, and which kept several evenings occupied, learning so much about this vital topic in today's America.
