Employers Don’t Care If You Have 5 Or 25 Years Experience. What To Do?

New research reveals a chasm between ‘experienced’ workers and employers. The former value the years they’ve put in and the knowledge they’ve accumulated over decades. Companies don’t. It’s time to help both sides understand what they’re missing.

The old demographic shapes that we have been used to forever are morphing, for the first time in human history, from a pyramid into a square. The emerging reality that there are now as many older workers as younger workers in the workforce is a shift not many companies are whole-heartedly embracing. It hasn’t really made it onto the agenda in most organisations. At least not yet. A recent report from the OECD and Generations is trying to change that.