Philip Thomas

Woking

Talented but out of work because I am deemed to be too old Projects and Programmes Manager

Most of the really good guys are what the industry seems to label as geriatric! They are in their bath chairs, wearing carpet slippers and sucking on an old smelly pipe - and that is just the ladies. Just FYI, the agencies who advertise and filter submissions for positions on behalf of companies are probably populated by agents in their early 20s and think anyone older than 35 is beyond it, so the application goes no further. IF, by some miracle your CV does get to a company it usually has to get past the HR team - who, guess what, are in their early 20s and think etc. Just for once will someone acknolwedge that there is some real talent aged up to 70 and possibly beyond who work hard, make few mistakes, have eons of experience, have seen why things go wrong and stop it happening, who do not suffer from hangovers or take sickky days off, don't have romantic problems that detract from thier work and who will deliver. Will they then start to look seriously at these applications? At the very least, can us drooling shuffling people who can outwork younger collleagues, get some sort of proportional representation in the job application industry and then you COEs will see a difference.