According Juanes (Colombian singer) life is a little while, a little while nothing else. To paraphrase, then the working life is a breeze, although many of you reading this blog are young people who are in full production and growth, good outline a trend that is occurring at least in the labor market in countries with high population rate is over 50 years of age, such as Spain and Argentina. Is that companies have realised that more and more complicated and difficult to retain young staff, which only looks for the explosive growth of their careers at which they rotate a lot.
In fact I think that’s been so long. In my personal case, recently graduated engineer changed jobs every 9 months until after 5 changes I settled for just 5 years, where I earned what they deserved.
Today, given the abandonment of traditional careers by young people, who now study aimed mostly at the service careers than traditional engineering, sciences and health, many companies have decided to end a paradigm if we do, nobody knows who won, as it is to hire people under 35 years of age.
Moving from 45 years and have not solved our financial life exposes us to stay outside the labor market and in many cases survive with what little they have saved or hold jobs that suit us at all. A real drama then. Unless this trend is imposed.
So surprised to see that companies located in Argentina as Walmart, McDonald’s, among others Hoyst have focused on multi-generational staff have on staff. The reasons are as follows:
- These people seek job security compared to younger ones.
- In many cases, require little training, with the addition that will not be going to the competition once this is completed.
- Technical and socially are better prepared than their younger counterparts, at least in the case of technical careers such as engineering of all kinds, in fact there are many companies require that the person they want for key positions have a minimum of 20 years of experience.
- Public know how to treat individuals as children or adolescents. This is for companies that hire women to manage the box office movies or amusement parks.
- They are excellent hosts and make people feel welcome in any company working with mass audience.
- They are patient with customers, reason why many working in call centers or places where patience is required to guide the public.
As if these advantages were not enough, are stressed less. A consultant Kaimprom, Argentina made a study to examine stress and job performance of persons aged 45 years and found that:
“With increasing age of the employees, those that are experienced less stress, more employees were spontaneously and perceived greater fairness in the decisions of the organisation: a person between 40 and 65 generated groups, not broken in places, trains volunteers to spread new messages and counter productive. ” That’s the dream of every employer.
In addition, many of them have emotional and economic life determined, it is to feel useful so they look at a job opportunity as an extension of life to feel useful and valued.
I hope that this trend will continue to impose worldwide, as well as ancient societies revere and respect older people, it’s good that we return to those bases and accessories to young people. Have a nice day.