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Why Job Hunting When You’re Over 50 Is Tougher Than You Might Think
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10/30/2024
Searching for a new employment opportunity can be daunting at any age but many job seekers over the age of 50 are having a particularly tough time landing a new role.
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Searching for a new employment opportunity can be daunting at any age, but many job seekers
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over the age of 50 are having a particularly tough time landing a new role.
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In fact, half of people in their 50s are laid off at least once, and only 1 in 10 of these
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workers will ever again earn as much as they did before this setback, according to 2018
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research by ProPublica.
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A public policy professor tells HuffPost that many times machines actually rank job seekers'
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applications, and when older workers apply for a job, they often get rejected by automatic
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tracking systems.
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In one experimental study, an economist sent out 8,000 fake resumes of candidates to hiring
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managers and tracked what they looked at with an eye-scanning lab.
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Hiring managers' eyes were pausing at years of employment history and the year candidates
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got their education, and ultimately spent more time scanning the resumes of younger
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candidates.
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The Age Discrimination and Employment Act protects U.S. workers who are 40 and older
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from being discriminated against on the basis of age, but the odds are still stacked against
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older job seekers.
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