As I’ve gone around looking for a job and observed what gets hired. I’ve found it’s usually the skinny good looking fresh out of high school. Either that or people look really young. It's the younger ones with the jobs.
At the career workshop I attended a couple weeks ago I noticed allot of people 40 and over that had either retired and/or without a job. Most of them were without a job because they couldn’t stand the one they were at and/or they got bored. They were in a transitional phase.
While I was a career workshop I participated in mock interviews back and forth with this man that had to be over fifty. It eventually was my turn to interview him.
As I did he was watching me very intently as I fumbled to go through the interview questions unprepared. As a result, he remembered a time when he had gotten interviewed for a job by some young buck (I think that’s what he said) that was fumbling around and being lax on how he was performing the interview. This old man proceeded to tell me what I was doing wrong then told the instructor. I had nothing to do with what had previously happened to him and didn’t have any idea on how to interview him for a Chaplain Job. Anyway instructor had told him that this would be something that would happen in the work place and I would be the one with the job and if he had acted that way he might not have gotten a job.
The book mentions on page 28 in the HR How to section that “tomorrow’s workers hitting the 55-plus age group… many of tomorrow’s managers will be supervising workers older than themselves. I guess it might be appropriate to say that getting to know the 40 and over generation may be the best thing to do. It’s really a shame that I personally don’t get to socialize with too many people in that age group because I’m in college.
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