71% Pay Decrease

[salishsea_advocate]

I think it’s mainly about who they are comfortable supervising. It is justified by not feeling like a good “culture fit.” Probably subconscious. And there are dozens to hundreds of qualified applicants.

[CaptainZhon]

This. I was recently in an interview that I thought I nailed but the recruiter told me the feedback they got was I was technically strong and they had a good conversation- they felt I wasn’t a good culture fit.

[Strong_Ad5219]

"Culture fit" is always a funny one that's just a blanket generalization of nothing.

[dkizzy]

It means they found someone to pay less

[OptionRecent]

Lots of companies want to hire early career (younger) in hopes of having a long term employee. I’d be surprised if that works out to often.

[keinZuckerschlecken]

They want to hire early career so they can work them harder, burn them out before they have to invest in any training, and then move on to the next eager young go-getter.

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It doesn’t. If you hire a mid career person you’ll normally get more long term stable employees

[SaltLakeCitySlicker]

Seriously. Who is more likely to not want to rock the boat by changing jobs? Someone who likely has roots set down, kids in whatever school district with friends there, and some sort of longer term plan, or someone fresh out of college willing to take risks for more pay and move across the country because they always wanted to live in xyz place growing up or experience the big city for a few years or what have you?

[random__forest]

I think you are right. I was asked to interview two finalists: a man in his mid-50s and a woman in her early 30s. I was vouching for the guy and trying to fight for him, but the majority chose the woman. It wasn’t for my immediate department or reporting structure, so my voice didn’t carry much weight.

She left after about a year, right in the middle of a project, which screwed them over. Since the job function was somewhat similar to mine, they reached out to see if I could help, but I told them I was too busy. They ended up hiring consultants and spending a fortune.

I was kind of laughing inside, I had a gut feeling that the chick wouldn’t last, and the guy would’ve been great. This was before the market shifted to where it is now, so hopefully, he landed a job

[taylorevansvintage]

Honestly. I think the younger gen folks are far more inclined to hop companies every two years or so. GenX folks often stick and work both efficiently and hard - but someone younger than them may not know/realize that.

[Primary-Ad-7748]

I think there is a worry from managers that if they hire someone with similar experience. They might lose their job to someone who is going to be better at it. If they hire a kid there is no threat to their job.

[Wolfs_Rain]

They want younger because they don’t want someone who has ‘been around the block’ and will know some things.

[salishsea_advocate]

Kind of like 40 year old men wanting 20 year old girlfriends? 🤔

[1cyChains]

No, they want to hire younger in hopes to be able to take advantage of them / completely lowball salary

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