Companies obsessed with youth are missing their best hires. Here’s why

Younger workers don’t have a monopoly on innovation.

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50% of the global population is ageist against older people, according to the World Health Organization. As the Managing Director of a recruitment company, I know this is true. Spend enough time listening in on hiring conversations, and a curious pattern emerges.  When companies talk of innovation, adaptability, and fresh thinking, they often imagine a young, agile, fast-moving team with the latest technologies at their fingertips.

So, we see hiring decisions that favor younger or mid-career employees, under the assumption that younger employees are naturally more creative, more technologically fluent, or........

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