Society & Culture

Mature Age Job Seeking

Society & Culture

Posted by: JennyC.

17th Mar 2011 09:09am

Mature age job seekers have battles looking for work.After looking for work and sending off many applications for positions in the last 4 months it is easy to see now why even the young give up.It is either age or experience against you.They want young but lots of experience.Another thing that is annoying and have heard this from the young job seeker.They dont reply to your enquiry for work or even let you know a Job has been filled most of the time.So rude.


Tiger Dave
  • 16th May 2011 10:22pm

In 2000 I was working full time and had an accident on the job.I was unable to go back to my pre injury duties that of a driver for one of the big three bread company's.I had been an employer of this company in two periods that totaled 22 years in all.After I did return to work I was given a clerk's job and did this for two years.Then one day the company decided that the job I was doing was no longer required so I was shown the gate.We went to court and I was awarded a small payout and $300 a week less tax and no super paid at all.This was a big drop from what I was earning at the time somewhere between $700 / $800 a week.
The court award was issued under section 40 of the workers compensation act which ment that to continue to receive it I had to be seeking work.This was in june 2002 and since then I have applied for more jobs then I can remember and because I was in my late 50's it was mission impossible.It is so dissapointing when you send off your CV for jobs that you could do on your ear but because of your age nine out of ten companies don't even have the good grace to reply to your application,and if they do it always sorry but no go.
In all that time the only work I have been able to get was working as Santa at Christmas,which I did for five years,but have been unable to do so for the last two years.I now work as a School Crossing Supervisor,better known as a Lollypop Man.I am now 65 and would go on the penison but because my wife works full time (Thank God she does or we would be living in a Tent),I can't get it. I hate to think what I have lost in earning over the years and say to anyone out there who is past 50 hold on to your job because it is like flogging a dead horse trying to get a job if you are not working.


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