Tired of Filipino age discrimination?
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There’s a Job Market That Knows No Age Limit. Online.
Getting employed requires a lot of qualifications in terms of educational background, working experience, skills, age, gender (sometimes), and so on. These qualifications are essential in screening applicants, especially that employers would, of course, need people who would really fit the job. However, there’s one qualification that creates a certain degree of discomfort in the job-hunting public: age restrictions. Some people prefer to call it “age discrimination”.
There is a law prohibiting age discrimination in the Philippines. However, age discrimination in hiring still gets in the way of job-hunters in the form of age restrictions, such as those in job advertisements indicating that only those within a particular age range would be qualified. But could you really be too young or too old for a job?
Of course, we’re not advocating child labor. There are prohibitions against the employment of minors in the Philippines. What we’re concerned about here are those who are qualified for the job, except that they’re way over the qualified age range. In the Philippines, there are jobs that bar out even applicants as young as 28 or 30 years old. Being denied a job opportunity because of age, to some people, could translate to being denied the chance to earn a living for their families. Such instances could dampen self-esteem, and could even give a misconception that there’s an age limit to being fit for a job.
There are things that you could do if you think that you are discriminated against, especially in terms of your age. But should you wait for the discrimination to eat you up? Of course not! Especially when there are jobs and money-making opportunities that certainly do not discriminate in terms of age, and other factors such as educational background, gender, and so on. Those jobs are done online, including the applications. Online jobs come in many varieties: paid to read email programs, online writing opportunities, data encoder jobs, and so on. You just have to your pick.
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September 5th, 2008 at 12:06 am
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