Good Recruitment for Older Workers: Understanding the recruitment landscape and system in the context of older applicants

We know from our previous work that perceived age-bias is quite common in the recruitment process, with our own polling showing that nearly a third of people aged over 50 feel they have been turned down for a job because of their age. Age-related stereotypes - sometimes negative, sometimes positive - abound and can affect people's attitudes and behaviour, but we do not have enough evidence directly linking stereotypes to hiring decisions, or very much evidence on promising approaches to overcoming age-bias and discrimination in the recruitment process. For this Invitation to Tender we are looking to commission research to help build our understanding of the current and future landscape of…

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