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TINA · Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:14 am Post subject: Would you hire an older worker?

Older workers can give a great deal to a place of employment such as their skills they learned all their life, they may tend to be more mature or more dedicated, or at least more serious about their work, they may have more of a desire to help train the younger workers, etc. So what do you members think here? Would you hire someone that is an older worker? Let's say someone over 50? Over 60? Over 70?

State why you would or why you would not, if you were an employer or if you were looking for workers.

I think most the places I go to it's always the young 20 & 30 year olds that are working, and also of course teenagers. I keep wondering just WHERE are the older workers? What did they do, disappear? Turn into a Welcome Lady/Welcome Man at Wal-Mart or K-Mart (which does happen), turn into an Avon Lady? Retire? Be a volunteer? Where are they anyways. Well more of them need to be hired as they need work.

Do you think older people can live off of the retirement benefits and the Social Security benefits??

James · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:41 am Post subject:

I don't see any reason at all not to hire older workers.

There's plenty of jobs that don't require a physical effort over a sustained length of time - most positions in retail for example, and office work and reception etc.
Computer work too - my mother is 63 and works doing DTP and database management etc.

Obviously there are some jobs that would be harder for an older person [like bricklaying or other manual labor etc].

On the plus side, I think older people tend to be more reliable and consistant in their work, so therefore make good dependable workers.

jeter4982 · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject:

If I was an employer, I think it would really depend on what I was looking for in the job I was hiring for. Older people do have a lot more experience in general work, and tend to follow the philosphy that the customer is always right more than a younger worker would. That being said, they also may be less technologically advanced, which again depending on the job, could be a big thing they are lacking. Todays kids are brought up on computers, whrereas much of the older population has never used one, or does not have the same skills on one. Last, depending on the job again, you have to take into consideration things like how much sick days and vacation days a person will take. As your age goes up, so does your medical problems, and that may affect the job. It would really depend on the job is basically what I am saying...

Tom

StefanJechel · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject:

It depends a lot of the job type...

There are jobs where older people can work better (for example I will always think an old and experienced secretary is better than a young sex bomb one); but again there are jobs where young people are better (where hard work is required or in public relations).

Lou3000 · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 5:10 pm Post subject:

StefanJechel · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 8:07 am Post subject:

I was talking about two different situations:
a) Hard working (consider brute force where lot of strength and endurance is required)
b) Public relations (where generally a young sex bomb girl will be more attractive) [I don't say that older people can't do it - for example when I could afford a secretary it was a 58 old very competent lady; but generally younger people are preferred].

AliceA · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 8:27 am Post subject:

Lou3000 · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:19 am Post subject:

oops!

see next message!

Lou3000 · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 9:25 am Post subject:

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