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You are not top 10% if you have connections and recommendations past 50. I would say you are bottom 10-20% if you don't. I'm not talking auto-hire/top employees

You are not top 10% if you have connections and recommendations past 50. I would say you are bottom 10-20% if you don't. I'm not talking auto-hire/top employees - just people who know who they could talk to if they lost their job and would get picked up in a reasonable amount of time. It's really not that high of a bar. It's very likely that a person past 50s stranded competing with 20/30 yearolds willing to take junior positions without references is the kind of person that you don't want to hire in the first place and that's not even taking age effects in to consideration

coldtea 11y ago
>You are not top 10% if you have connections and recommendations past 50. I would say you are bottom 10-20% if you don't. Which would make it a problem "only" for about 30+ million people or so if they get fired... That is, if the idea that "80% of people over 50 have recommendations/connections that can land them a job" is correct in the first place, which, hearing from people that age that have difficulty finding a job (in their field of course -- not getting a gig welcoming customers at McDonalds) when laid off, I don't think it is.