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Levine: How older workers can find new jobs

Many signs point to a turnaround for the economy. The stock market is advancing and the employment numbers appear to be improving slowly.  "But what about opportunities for older workers?" people often ask me.  "Are they finding jobs too?"  The answer is maybe. Experienced workers are finding jobs if they have the right ...

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  1. This article is the moral equivalent on blaming Black people for racism. It presumes older workers are lazy, technologically illiterate, and worthless to employers.

    In point of fact, people who have been in the workforce for three decades have a considerably greater wealth of skill sets far beyond what the nation’s idiot factories (like Hofstra and Adelphi) are cranking out. Most college grads I speak to are so appallingly illiterate on so many levels, one wonders what they were doing for four years. In the meantime, one regularly sees H.R. departments demanding B.A.’s for jobs that are nothing more than outbound telemarketing operations.
    We have degraded education and intellectual rigor to such a point in this country, to such a level where operating a PowerPoint program counts for more than knowledge or wisdom.

    That is pathetic.

    The problem here is ageism, which is just another form of demographic exclusion based on defamation of a group. And these people certainly have more knowledge and skills to offer than the owner of a “Leadership Development Company.”

    What the hell is that? And why would anyone need one?


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