Posts Tagged ‘Age friendly’

Hats off to Age-Friendly Employers

By Nancy J. Peterson  June 18th, 2009

Today I’m issuing a confession and congratulations all in a single post.  We work hard here at Workforce50.com and progress is painfully slow sometimes.  But we’re committed to being an honest, high-quality web site with a mission and purpose of serving the over fifty community with employment information and resources. 

My confession as the Editor of this web site is that I’m sooooo frustrated by the complaints that we receive about the low number of job postings on the web site.  Yes, we are in an economic downturn and most employers are suffering through layoffs and hiring freezes and periods of employees living fearful of losing their jobs.  But here’s the thing.  We have committed to the 50+ community to put out a genuine product.  That means that we will not aggregate job postings from the various large database services out there.  That means that when someone finds a posting on our site, they can be assured that age is not only NOT an issue with the advertising employer but the employer is actively searching for older qualified candidates to fill that position.  The employer will not be surprised that their job is displayed on an over-50 web site.

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Small Companies more beneficial to Older Workers

By Nancy J. Peterson  July 11th, 2008

Results of the latest Workforce50.com employer survey indicate that older workers may find greater satisfaction working for a smaller company of less than 50 employees rather than larger companies having more than 1000 employees.  It seems that smaller organizations not only value diversity in their ranks but they do actively recognize age as an element of diversity.  Interestingly, the perception that a company is age-friendly is very strong for the small companies responding, 86%, even though not all of these small companies recognize age as an element of diversity.  In May 2005, The Harris Poll reported  that employees of smaller companies, in general, have much more positive views about their jobs.

Small companies are more successful at retaining their older workers as well.  Eighty two percent of the small companies responding to our survey affirmed that they are successful at retaining their older employees as compared with only 60% of companies with more than 5000 employees.  Small companies, however, report only slightly more success at attracting and hiring 50+ workers.    (more…)

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On the Subject of Older Workers

By Gene Burnard  July 9th, 2008

I use Google Alerts quite extensively to keep up-to-date on a number of topics.  What a surprise yesterday when I received notice of 3 articles, 2 recent and 1 older, about the value of older boomer and senior workers.  So often you read all the myths/reasons that companies cannot, or are unwilling to even consider, recruiting older employees.  (remember that older is relative)  You’ll hear more from me in future posts about these “supposed” reasons for not utilizing this growing workforce

But I digress. The first article - Oldies can be goodies when it comes to workers’ mind set, by Tom Johnson - of the New Jersey Star-Ledger quotes Douglas Klein President of Sirota Survey Intelligence:

Sirota Survey Intelligence, a firm specializing in attitude research, says businesses should more carefully consider older workers as part of their hiring plans, especially now in a tight economy, when each new hire takes on greater importance.

Older workers — 63 and up — bring a higher level of satisfaction, pride and willingness to go the “extra mile” to their jobs than younger generations, Sirota’s research found. They also express the strongest satisfaction with their compensation. (more…)

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