A thought on handling ageism September 8, 2008
Posted by hardly Recruiting Process
Digg! this story.
, trackback
Nick has a nice post on how to beat age objection.
Generally, I agree with this advice. Thing is that it's a heck of a lot easier to do this if you're in the running for a Sales, Biz-dev or Product Marketing role.
What do you do about this if you're a Developer or a Program Manager and you really don't know what your exact bottom-line impact has been?
Simple, shift to a metric that means something to the business.
For example, on Wednesday, I was speaking w/a Web Developer, and he told me a story about creating a Javascript library that would take the place of a bunch of hand-coding his peers had to do across a number of projects. End result was that their projects were getting completed earlier and were more likely to hit their dates, too. He might have a hard time saying what the direct impact was to the profitability of the firm in terms of dollars and cents, but he could easily state that the projects were getting done 1 - 2 months earlier than before. Any manager knows that's good stuff.
As to you recent college grads who don't think this applies to you because you lack wrinkles and know Ruby, think again. Business is about making a profit. At any age. In any century you want to name.
Comments
Sorry comments are closed for this entry