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Recruiting more over-50s

Steve Bridger

Interesting...

Firms pledge to recruit more over-50s

  • Aviva, Barclays, Atos and five other firms have agreed to promote over-50s employment by publishing data about the age of their workforce. 
  • They are responding to a call from the government's Business Champion for Older Workers, Andy Briggs. 
  • In February, he asked firms to increase older worker numbers by 12% by 2022.
  • Mr Briggs warned that by then, there will be 14.5 million more jobs, but only seven million younger workers entering the workplace.
  • He said older workers were vital in filling the UK's "colossal skills gap".

Do you know how many employees you have 'Over 50' - and the proportion of your workforce?

What practical steps would you take to make this happen? Positive discrimination?

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  • I must admit that as someone who reaches that magic number next year and has quite a few friends and family in their 50s and 60s (and in one case 40's) who have already 'retired' from the job market, I wonder if the question is really how to encourage employers to employ more over 50's?

    It may be that we need to look as how we encourage and attract, the over 50s?
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  • I must admit that as someone who reaches that magic number next year and has quite a few friends and family in their 50s and 60s (and in one case 40's) who have already 'retired' from the job market, I wonder if the question is really how to encourage employers to employ more over 50's?

    It may be that we need to look as how we encourage and attract, the over 50s?
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