You ARE TOO OLD
Yes, you are too old. No, I am not talking about anybody else. I am talking about you. Yes You!!!
That’s what many employers are saying in Nigeria including the biggest publicly traded ones. They put age as a condition in job openings. It may not apply to you today, but you should be very concerned. One day, another bias can be used against you.
See the big companies practicing it openly. Shameful! This is 2018 not 1918.
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UBA is limiting application to 27 years old and below only https://goo.gl/ze8Snw
Ecobank says you are too old at 29 https://goo.gl/wLjnkH
Access Bank’s case is worse. They even split the discrimination into two. 26 and 28 years old. https://goo.gl/6L1dsB
Even Nigerian Stock Exchange did too on their recent graduate program posting stating Age limit. (And yes. If NSE can do it, any listed company will do isn’t it?)
I can continue as it’s all over the place.
This is discrimination and it must stop.
Dear HRDs, Recruiters, MDs, CEOs, COOs, Job Seekers, Vice President, Policy makers, Journalist, Senators, Governors, Entrepreneurs, I am reminding you if you already know and If you don’t know, that Age as a requirement for Job application is a discrimination and It should not be allowed at all. Let me also remind or inform you please that this is not in line with Global practice.
We need to act now to stop Age Discrimination and any other type of bias.
Kola Adebayo
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