Good Recruitment for Older Workers: An updated toolkit

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Good Recruitment for Older Workers: A new toolkit

For the latest phase of our Good Recruitment for Older Workers (GROW) project we've launched practical new tools to help reduce age bias in your recruitment process.

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Guides for delivering employment support services for people in their 50s and 60s

Based on our engagement with those using services, as well as a review of existing evidence, we have developed a range of practical resources to support people delivering frontline services.

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Age-friendly Employer Pledge

Sign up to the Age-friendly Employer Pledge and show you recognise the value of older workers

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Ads for all ages: How age-biased are job adverts in the UK, and what can we do about it?

This report concentrates on one aspect of the recruitment process and illustrates the negative impact ageist language can have on older workers. It's a part of the Good Recruitment for Older Workers (GROW) project.

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Too much experience: Older workers' perceptions of ageism in the recruitment process

This report shares findings on ageism in the recruitment process from the perspective of older workers. It's part of a wider programme of work looking at the recruitment landscape for employers and older jobseekers.

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Good Recruitment for Older Workers (GROW)

We know that 36% of 50-69 year olds feel at a disadvantage applying for jobs due to their age. This project is looking at ways of reducing age bias and discrimination in the recruitment process.

Persistent ageist myths revealed as Age Without Limits campaign moves into second year

Our Age Without Limits anti-ageism campaign enters its second year and is calling on everybody to notice, challenge and change the country’s negative attitudes towards ageing and older people.

Why the over 50s are key to solving the health and work dilemma

Our comprehensive health and work evidence review finds older people with a long-term health condition more likely to be out-of-work than younger peers.

Good Recruitment for Older Workers: An updated toolkit

This new toolkit for 2023, and builds on age-friendly principles to introduce 3 new tools to minimise age bias in the recruitment process.

Good Recruitment for Older Workers: A new toolkit

Solutions to age bias in recruitment

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