Dispatches documentary slammed by Sellick Partnership

12/02/2009

A leading recruitment specialist, Sellick Partnership, has hit back at claims in Channel 4’s Dispatches that agencies favour younger candidates over older, more experienced workers.

The documentary revealed that one in five people knows somebody who believes they have experienced discrimination because they were considered too old, while only 12 per cent of under 35s feel that having colleagues over the age of 65 would be good for productivity.��

The programme also featured a recruitment consultant who stated that older candidates were not as easy to place with clients, and that the focus for agencies was placing as many people as possible to maximise profit margins.��

However, experts at Sellick Partnership have challenged the findings, reporting a much more open attitude among employers than the documentary suggested.�

Gill Turnock, Group Director at Sellick Partnership, said: “Good recruitment consultancies know that successful placing is all about matching skills with roles – age doesn’t come into it.� Many of the individuals we are seeing at the moment have worked through previous recessions, giving them invaluable experience in addition to their role-specific abilities."�

“It is the sort of consultants that were featured in Dispatches that unfortunately give our industry a bad name.� We can provide a long list of older candidates that we have placed really easily with clients – employers are a great deal more open to different ages and levels of experience than the documentary gave them credit for.”

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Dispatches documentary slammed by Sellick Partnership

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