It might seem like your potential employer was discriminating against your youth, but the truth is probably more complex.
I recently asked a hiring manager why I’d missed out on a job I was interviewed for. They said they wanted to be straight with me and admitted they went with the older shortlisted candidate because the panel had reservations about hiring a Gen Z.
“A charitable interpretation would be that an employer who doesn’t have the most finesse with language was trying to get a point across about the other candidate having more experience or being further into their career,” he says. A Millennial , for example, could be like me: born in the early 80s, with a childhood full of cassette tapes, Telecom landline phones and exhortations to send a “stamped, self-addressed envelope” to your favourite TV show.Or they could be born in the late 1990s, and have grown up knowing a world where the internet and digital technology was utterly ubiquitous. Similarly, a Gen Z could be several years into their career, like you, or still in primary school.
“If we’re talking about some Gen Zs, then these are people relatively new to the workforce and also people who copped some of the worst effects of the challenges we faced during the pandemic,” he says.
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