Your Next Avenue Podcast

Richard Eisenberg interviews Lori Rassas, an employment lawyer and author of Over the Hill But Not the Cliff: 5 Strategies for 50+ Job Seekers to Push Past Ageism & Find a Job in the Loyalty-Free Workplace and The Perpetual Paycheck: Volumes 1 and 2. Rassas discusses why she thinks age discrimination towards job applicants over 50 is getting worse; how employers get away with it; what people should do and say when they think an interviewer has doubts about their ability to do the work or accept the salary; how to suss out whether an employer is less likely to consider older candidates and why job hunters over 50 should target small businesses for employment opportunities.