Searching for a new employment opportunity can be daunting at any age but many job seekers over the age of 50 are having a particularly tough time landing a new role.
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00:00Searching for a new employment opportunity can be daunting at any age, but many job seekers
00:05over the age of 50 are having a particularly tough time landing a new role.
00:11In fact, half of people in their 50s are laid off at least once, and only 1 in 10 of these
00:16workers will ever again earn as much as they did before this setback, according to 2018
00:22research by ProPublica.
00:24A public policy professor tells HuffPost that many times machines actually rank job seekers'
00:30applications, and when older workers apply for a job, they often get rejected by automatic
00:36tracking systems.
00:37In one experimental study, an economist sent out 8,000 fake resumes of candidates to hiring
00:44managers and tracked what they looked at with an eye-scanning lab.
00:49Hiring managers' eyes were pausing at years of employment history and the year candidates
00:54got their education, and ultimately spent more time scanning the resumes of younger
00:59candidates.
01:00The Age Discrimination and Employment Act protects U.S. workers who are 40 and older
01:05from being discriminated against on the basis of age, but the odds are still stacked against
01:11older job seekers.