Where are my 17 years? Why age matters

In the West, the announcement of the candidate search, indicating age limits may result in the employer with legal action. We are all different.

A little research online sites and newspapers, help in finding employees or work, showed that 90% of all ads can serve as grounds for accusations of age discrimination. Drinking age in Ukraine and civilized countries differ radically. For Western companies is quite normal to take on professional work in the age of 50 and even 60 years. In our country, this is problematic. Drinking age of employees in this country similar to the situation in some Asian firms, which can not be subordinated to senior executives.

new thinking

In most cases, employers do not motivate the age limit. The real reasons we can only guess.

People who lived in the two eras, internally tied to the Soviet time, and not always willing to work in the company, the leading business of international standards of capitalist markets and strictly focused on financial performance. Thus, the age indirectly affect a person's employment opportunities and significantly reduces the number of companies in which he could work. Examples include - replacement of posts of director of a large plant (customer requirement - not older than 50 years, but preferably - younger candidates), head of the oil company, as well as the general director of Petrochemical Holding (no older than 45 years). customers Motivation is the same - we need people with a new mentality.

Unlike Western companies, our most take "too young" (by international standards) director general, what is "too old". This can affect the quality of leadership, because some management skills are acquired only with age. As a result - many of today's young managers, by accident ascended to senior management positions, completely forget that they have to manage the first people, and only then processes and financial flows.

Another duty of the employer motif that brings the voting age - elderly people will not be able to fit in to form a team of young managers.

Women's issue

Most consultants believe that the age limit to be even more likely if the candidates - a woman. Only in some cases, due to the specific positions necessarily need a man (for example, loader, driver or forwarder which involves frequent trips to the regions). Increasingly, male candidates as totally unjustified preference, often regardless of the age of a female candidate.

Employers have their own motives. Some people believe that a woman "aged" can not control the young male staff, others - that women after forty less energetic and ambitious. Of course, there are exceptions: cases in which the client wants to hire an employee, in which all the family problems in the past, and insisted on the candidature of women younger than 45 years and always with children, have graduated from high school.

Managers of large companies on the question of the age limit in one voice say: we have no such. "Fixed standard age for managers, we do not exist, - says Director of Administration EKZ" Lebedyansky "Alexey Molchanov. - In practice, the average age of the key central office managers - '32. " In "VimpelCom", for example, reported that the age limit as such, the company does not, but "standard, we consider candidates not older than 45 years."

From age discrimination no one is immune. The reason is not only the older generation mentality, but also employers stereotypes. Nevertheless, the situation will soon change. Experts say that the domestic market is growing shortage of top managers and middle managers and that age in this regard becomes a secondary criterion.