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If you have old candidate with many experiences and love to change his career would you give him a chance?

If the candidate work in many job specialty and willing to learn and start over with the new job and has the ability to watch and learn no matter how old is he and for example he like to work in Oil Operation jobs...

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Question added by Abdullah Ibrahim Jaber Muharrag , Post Commander , Elegant For Industrial Security Services CO
Date Posted: 2015/08/03
Duncan Robertson
by Duncan Robertson , Strategy Consultant , Duncan Robertson Consultancy

Yes of course.  A person's age has (in general) nothing to do with their ability to do a job. 

 

Age discrimination is wrong.  In many countries it is illegal.  In the UK for example, it is illegal to ask for a candidate's age or date of birth. 

Bidemi Oyedele
by Bidemi Oyedele , Senior Human Resource Consultant , Salient Resources

The older candidates have many advantages. For example, they have work experience and their propensity to just dump your organization at the slightest opportunity is very slim. Some of them are even more open to learn than these younger folks.

Mohgamat Awaldien
by Mohgamat Awaldien , Change manager , VAST

Yes of course.  A person's age shows the experienced gained over years and the input to resolving issues would assist the company.

They have work experience and their propensity to just dump your organization is very slim. Some of them are even more open to learn than these younger folks.

Yuliia Rozhnova
by Yuliia Rozhnova , Technical Talent Sourcing Consultant , Ciklum

Yes, age is not the limit, and some people are late-bloomers, they manage to fullfill their potential and career aspirations later than others, but it does not make them less skillful because they are older

Walid Ismail Elrahel  Meiri
by Walid Ismail Elrahel Meiri , Administrative Accountant and Public Relations , Musa Ali Altayeb for Import and Export

Big Yes because really I cannot imagine anything else being as interesting, challenging, exhilarating, and rewarding as some of the jobs I have had. Plus, every now and again, things go right, and you walk away feeling that, for some people, in some places, the world is a better place because of something you did. That’s tremendously powerful and motivating, and it’s what keeps many people doing this. This doesn’t happen every day, and the degree to which you feel a direct link between what you do and change in people’s lives depends on where you sit in the organization, but for most of us, there is a feeling that what we are doing is contributing to making the world a better place.

Nazar Yehya
by Nazar Yehya , Senior Procurement officer (Certified expert Buyer, EIPM France) , Yemen LNG Company (TOTAL E&P)

If he is capable to perform well and give excellent production, why not, also is depend on the position will be given is it a supervisory position or something else which you may need a decent guidance for subordinates and not hard efforts only.

Ali Atef
by Ali Atef , admin and human resources head , National bank of Egypt juba

Sure, everyone needs to take of his ability, carrier progress, or shifting his career

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