Show HN: Hire an Oldster
If you take a survey of hiring managers they will point to three primary reasons that candidates 40 - 60 have a harder time finding jobs:<p>1) They are typically more expensive than &quot;market&quot; for the same role a younger person can fulfill at acceptable tradeoff of competency - higher salaries, higher related costs like healthcare for a family, expectations around retirement programs, etc.<p>2) They are less flexible - they are less willing to relocate, they have kids to pick up instead of &quot;beer hour bonding&quot;, unwilling to run the same 60 hour gauntlet that a 25 year old can etc.<p>3) They have less primary &amp; secondary education relevant to today&#x27;s enterprise issues. In the specific case of &quot;marketers&quot; - like TryOldster is pitching - the best people will learn anything, but anybody over 50 years old spent their professional training + formative 20s thinking about television, radio, and print - not paid search, mobile advertising, and social.<p>That we&#x27;re at the top of HN again with another &quot;hire older people&quot; post (recently we saw OldGeekJobs) demonstrates there&#x27;s a huge unmet need within this cohort.<p>I don&#x27;t think a job-board is the right solution to this problem because the pitch on TryOldster does nothing to alleviate the three principal concerns.<p>My unasked, probably asinine business advice would be to turn this flow of traffic into a training &#x2F; education platform where you can VALIDATE and address the very real, foundational concerns of hiring managers around this cohort, and suddenly you&#x27;ve got a machine that can get motivated people trained and placed.