Is being experienced and over fifty years old no longer competitive in the job market against newbies?

From what i see, yes it is a chellenge for a highly experieced person who is over50 to find a job in the GCC market. People think he is over qualified for most positions and way too expensive for them. Senior positions are always left for locals who get paid highly. But again, this is a general view for some private companies overlook this trend.

Being experienced and age are completely on / inside someone, or personal at the end of it all. Question is your old and experienced but can you delivery as expected?, yes or no. Another thing also ,there are jobs that old and experienced people can't do ,so under this the argument might be right "that being over 50 and experienced is no longer an issue"

 

The employee more 50 year can give to work according to the experiences gained by the particular managerial experience and problems and crises, as well as project management and to exert extra effort to carry out the scientific developments and modern methods of work and the latest technology implementation and administration further

 

For westerners like  Mr. Adam has no problem as it is the custom for westerners looking for a job in the MENA. Westerners like the americans, europeans are valued and look up to by middle eastern business and unfortunately, for asians like me, at par or more than any other deserving 50+ westerners are look down and ignored. It is a story been going on here and why is it like this? mindset of the MENA people here is the culprit and hopefully should change as intellects are not only concentrated in these regions the americas and europe. be aware that america became what it is now was because of the contributions by the asians.