00:00Searching 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.
00:11In fact, half of people in their 50s are laid off at least once, and only 1 in 10 of these workers will ever again earn as much as they did before this setback, according to 2018 research by ProPublica.
00:24A public policy professor tells HuffPost that many times machines actually rank job seekers' applications, and when older workers apply for a job, they often get rejected by automatic tracking systems.
00:37In one experimental study, an economist sent out 8,000 fake resumes of candidates to hiring managers and tracked what they looked at with an eye-scanning lab.
00:48Hiring managers' eyes were pausing at years of employment history and the year candidates got their education and ultimately spent more time scanning the resumes of younger candidates.
01:00The Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects U.S. workers who are 40 and older from being discriminated against on the basis of age, but the odds are still stacked against older job seekers.
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