In an interview with Bottom Line Personal (1\/1\/07, p. 7), Richard Bolles, author of “What Color Is Your Parachute,” says companies don’t want to hire workers over age 50, even though age discrimination is illegal, for fear the will:<\/p>\n
1. Lack energy.
\n2. Retire soon.
\n3. Strain the company’s pension or health care plan.
\n4. Demand hefty salaries.<\/p>\n
As an old guy myself, I am increasingly prejudiced against youth. I am hesitant to hire workers under 30, for fear that they may be:<\/p>\n
1. Too inexperienced.
\n2. Immature.
\n3. Lacking in knowledge and track record that can only be gained through years of working in their industry or profession.
\n4. Ignorant and arrogant–there are things they should know but don’t, and worse, they don’t know that they don’t know. <\/p>\n
Who’s justified in their fears of hiring workers who are too young or old?<\/p>\n
Bolles? Bly? Neither?<\/p>\n
Is there any truth to any of the above fears of hiring the young or old?<\/p>\n
Are there advantages to each age group that Bolles and I don’t acknowledge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an interview with Bottom Line Personal (1\/1\/07, p. 7), Richard Bolles, author of “What Color Is Your Parachute,” says companies don’t want to hire workers over age 50, even though age discrimination is illegal, for fear the will: 1. Lack energy. 2. Retire soon. 3. Strain the company’s pension or health care plan. 4. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}