According to the study, the elderly have a very difficult start on the Polish labour market, which prefers young people.
The authors of the study have sent some 600 fictitious CV’s of people aged 28-52, in answer to work offers by various companies.
The results clearly demonstrated that in the majority of cases, positive replies were sent only to the young candidates.
The Polish Economic Institute’s Łukasz Baszczak, one of the authors of the report, underlined that the profiles of younger and older candidates were very similar in terms of competence, education and professional experience, and that discrimination in recruitment applied to both women and men.
Andrzej Kubisiak, Deputy Director of the Polish Economic Institute, pointed out that as statistics clearly show, by 2040 the number of people in the so-called productive age will drop by 1.2 million in Poland.
And so employers should change their perception of older candidates:
"Recruiters, headhunters, company directors have to adopt a different stand, because we need age diversity in our labour market," Kubisiak said.
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