Category Archives: Baby Boomers/ Third Agers

WHY GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE STILL EXISTS

June 12, 2010 – 10:12 pm

“When it comes to bias, it seems that the desire to believe in a meritocracy is so powerful that until a person has experienced sufficient career-harming bias themselves they simply do not believe it exists” This article ‘How the Sex Bias Prevails’ by Shankar Vedantam in The Age on 15 May 2010 is a must [...]

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Middle Aged Workers & Their Valuable Brains – Why Some Employers Are Missing Out

February 10, 2010 – 1:49 am

“Younger brains, predictably, are set up to focus on the negative and potential trouble. Older brains, studies show, often reach solutions faster, in part, because they focus on what can be done.” As a middle aged worker (deemed to be someone in the 40 – 60 year age bracket) the job search process can bring [...]

By Kelly Magowan | Also posted in Executive Career Management & Development, Executive Job Searching, Information of Interest, Recruitment | Comments (1)