More Age Discrimination and Critical Advice From a Recruiter

More Age Discrimination and Critical Advice From a Recruiter I gravitate towards blog posts from recruiters, and on age discrimination. I was delighted to find this one on Recruiting Blogs: Do You Know the Signs of Age Discrimination at Work? The post is pretty good. The issue I have with some of the advice, like document any discriminatory practices and document your work record is that you would later have to do something with that documentation. I find that many people move on (get laid off, fired, etc.) and then sink into depression, blame themselves, focus on their next job, or anything other than pursue legal action. Im not saying dont do it, Im just saying it is such a daunting concept, and maybe the wrong place to focus. Heres the most profound part of that page in the comment from Randall, the fourth paragraph starts: Ill say that too many older jobseekers fixate of age discrimination. I totally agree! Im definitely not saying that age discrimination doesnt exist, because it is abundant.  What Im saying is, I agree with Randall.  TOO MANY people FIXATE on the issue. Dont become obsessed with all the reasons why you arent seeing success stop FIXATING on this one issue. If it is an issue, figure out how to get around it.  How do you deal with it?  Do you ignore it?  Do you tackle it head on? Fixating on this will not help you resolve it.  No, you wont get younger, but you will be able to identify the issue and use the right language to perhaps defuse any issues. Here are some other age discrimination in the job search posts Ive written. More Age Discrimination and Critical Advice From a Recruiter I gravitate towards blog posts from recruiters, and on age discrimination. I was delighted to find this one on Recruiting Blogs: Do You Know the Signs of Age Discrimination at Work? The post is pretty good. The issue I have with some of the advice, like document any discriminatory practices and document your work record is that you would later have to do something with that documentation. I find that many people move on (get laid off, fired, etc.) and then sink into depression, blame themselves, focus on their next job, or anything other than pursue legal action. Im not saying dont do it, Im just saying it is such a daunting concept, and maybe the wrong place to focus. Heres the most profound part of that page in the comment from Randall, the fourth paragraph starts: Ill say that too many older jobseekers fixate of age discrimination. I totally agree! Im definitely not saying that age discrimination doesnt exist, because it is abundant.  What Im saying is, I agree with Randall.  TOO MANY people FIXATE on the issue. Dont become obsessed with all the reasons why you arent seeing success stop FIXATING on this one issue. If it is an issue, figure out how to get around it.  How do you deal with it?  Do you ignore it?  Do you tackle it head on? Fixating on this will not help you resolve it.  No, you wont get younger, but you will be able to identify the issue and use the right language to perhaps defuse any issues. Here are some other age discrimination in the job search posts Ive written.