Do you know that?

Are you not inviting someone to an interview because they are too old or too young for the job?

What is the reason for that?

This is due to age discrimination

Ageism says age-related prejudices and discrimination. Ageism is just as institutionalized as racism and sexism, although it is rarely discussed. For example, it is well researched that we assign certain stereotypes to certain age groups (Chan et al., 2012).

So become younger people regarded as more undisciplined and older people as less open to new things. Through this generalization Can people be discriminated against because of their age, even though their individual strengths would have been a good fit for the job.

Women and people of color are even more likely to be discriminated against because of their age.

Sources

• Chan, W., McCrae, R.R., De Fruyt, F., Jussim, L., Löckenhoff, C.E., De Bolle, M., Costa, P.T., Jr., Sutin, A.R., Realo, A., Allik, J., Nakazato, K., Shimonaka, Y., Hřebíčková, M., Graf, S., Yik, M., Brunner-Scic M., de Figueroa, N.L., Schmidt, V., Ahn, C.-K. Terracciano, A. (2012). Stereotypes of age differences in personality traits: Universal and accurate? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103 (6), 1050-1066.
• Cole, E., & Hollis-Sawyer, L. (2021). Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change. In JSTOR. American Psychological Association.