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Originally Posted by supafamous
Ghost/fake jobs are definitely a bigger thing today than they were a few years ago. This article did some research into the problem: https://clarifycapital.com/ghost-jobs
tldr: 27% of hiring managers have opening up for more than 4 months, close to half of those acknowledge that they kept the posting up for appearances sake (to make it look like they were growing). A third did it to placate overworked employees.
Ageism in tech seems to start showing up in the late 40s and even then how you look makes a big difference along with how you talk about your experience.
That almost peer of mine that applied for 200 jobs is my age (~50) but he looks quite a bit older than me (big ol' bald spot, overweight) and was definitely getting some ageism both on looks and how he spoke about his experience. A former manager of mine is early 60s (looks older than that and has the cadence of an old person) and is absolutely getting aged out - he's getting pretty bitter about it as he's been looking for work for over 6 months now.
The threshold I see is when you have more than 20 years experience then you better be able to teach the job versus do the job and/or you stop talking about anything that happened more than 15 years ago.
OTOH, I sorta have the opposite problem to a degree. I look like I'm in my late 30s and since I'm doing coaching work it's important for me to state my level of experience and age to show that I have the experience they need in a coach. Some people assume I'm too young to be coaching (then I reference 80s pop culture and I'm an old fart). |
The benefit of the Asian genes. Ditto if you have white hair. If you need to look old, let the white hair grow. If you need to look young, dye it all a medium to dark brown.
My problem right now is I want to move up the chain of command, but I had chased the money rather than the title before, and with the climate being the way it is, no one is willing to give me the chance because I never held the title despite doing leadership work.