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Do you only hire young people or would you hire older PhDs?
by 098328 8y ago
Do you only hire young people or would you hire older PhDs?
- zmmmmm 8y agoSo far we hired 2 younger and one older. However the older person did have some issues (not completely relevant to this discussion but perhaps indirectly so - he had some family obligations that became extremely burdensome) that resulted in him leaving. It sort of illustrates that part of the whole complexity of the situation is that older people can have complex lives and that has a business cost. So part of the discrimination is based on falsehoods, part of it is based on real things but is still discriminatory and part of it is actually genuine and legimitately pursing the interests of the business in a reasonable way. And none of that is clear when you are the one doing the hiring, it is all a murky mixture of your own perceptions, realities and emotions. edit: to answer your question, would absolutely hire older PhDs.
- 09832 8y agoWould you consider hiring older PhDs in the future or does the previous incident make you hesitant?
- hpcjoe 8y agoGlad to hear that, as a "mature" PhD
- masonic 8y agoolder people can have complex lives "Family obligations" affect young adults in their childbearing years more than 40+ with kids out and on their own way, generally.