Promoting Age Diversity In The Workplace

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When it comes to the finding and identifying of high quality people with valuable experience we have years of experience and offer a service that will enhance your existing recruitment methods and procedures.
Our advisors are all skilled professionals who work very closely with the people who have registered with us. Whether you need to engage someone for a senior level assignment or team of people for a specific project or a range of experienced staff for a wide variety of assignments TEN can help you.
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The Experience Network acts as a facilitator bringing skilled professionals who are either; Retired, Semi-Retired or unable to find employment because of ageism, back into circulation within the workplace. Our candidates are very often people who have held highly respected positions, who now find themselves seeking work again for a variety of reasons.

Our candidates include former CEO's, Company Directors, Senior Executives and Senior Managers who have lead or held key positions within organisations. They are all highly skilled professionals with a record of achievement to prove it, who are now seeking to return to the market place.

When it comes to the finding and identifying of high quality people with valuable experience we have years of experience and offer a service that will enhance your existing recruitment methods and procedures. Our advisors are all skilled professionals who work very closely with the people who have registered with us. Whether you need to engage someone for a senior level assignment or team of people for a specific project or a range of experienced staff for a wide variety of assignments The Experience Network can help you.
 

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   How We Work
Unlike a standard recruitment company...
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We do not:

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Operate within only a single market sector

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Send you mountains of c.v.'s

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Operate on "Buzz Words"

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Charge high fees

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Resource from our own internal database & other carefully selected sources

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Cover the entire United Kingdom

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Identify potential matches based on experience, skills, ability and suitability

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Make a one off charge per successful introduction

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Provide reliable candidates to work for you on either a permanent or per
assignment basis

And we do not 'sell' to you. Nobody within The Experience Network is working on a commission, they do not have targets to beat. The only thing that concerns our advisors is to place high quality reliable skilled professionals into good quality positions.
   What are the benefits?
The arguments for recruiting more experienced senior workers are mounting:
 
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By recruiting from a bigger pool of talent, you will achieve a more dynamic and mixed-age workforce.

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You will tap into a richer seam of skills, experience and knowledge.

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Access to experience and proven skills.

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A workforce that matches more closely the profile of your customers.

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Surveys show that older workers have a better attendance record than younger workers.

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Older workers are more flexible in accepting change in occupation and earnings.

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Older workers are often more flexible and able to work part time.

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Recent research shows that more experienced senior workers are more appreciative of matters such as; work ethic, judgement, commitment to quality, corporate responsibilities, attendance and punctuality.

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Thoughts from outside the box

The Experience Network
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Interesting Statistics

Quite aside from their experience, older workers are more committed and reliable, have better customer-facing skills, understand business better, and take less short-term sickness absence. It is a fact that in less than ten years' time, almost 40% of the UK labour force will be aged forty five or over. A fact which means that age discrimination is a luxury that companies can no longer afford. Demographic images suggest that by the year 2010, 45 - 55 year olds will make up the largest portion of the working population. 
 

   How does it work?
The Experience Network acts as a facilitator by introducing skilled professionals who are either; Retired, Semi-Retired or unable to find employment because of ageism, to your company for a specific permanent role or short term assignment. Typical short term assignments are for between three and six months. Each candidate successfully introduced will work as an independent contractor for the duration of the assignment. At the end of the period the assignment may be considered finished in which case there is no further action. Alternatively if the candidate was engaged with a view to making an offer of a permanent position then, you simply make your offer directly to the candidate.
 
   What does it cost?
In utilising the services of The Experience Network your company will be in a win win situation. Why? Well apart from all the advantages and benefits associated with engaging a more senior person the way in which The Experience Network operates is a far more cost effective route to attaining your recruitment solutions.
 
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Unlike a recruitment company we do not charge a percentage fee based on the value of the appointment.

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We charge a nominal fixed fee for each completed introduction regardless of any other considerations.

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Should you decide that at the end of a short term assignment to make one of our candidates a permanent job offer we will not make any additional charge whatsoever.

This of course means that we are much less expensive than any standard recruiter and therefore represent a considerably more financially attractive solution to your staffing needs.

The Age Diversity Initiative

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   Promoting Age Diversity within the workplace
Many companies often use external consultants for a whole range of reasons. However, many senior people, often with more experience than is actually required, are turned down almost immediately without reason, simply because of their age. Whilst legislation is in place to combat this sadly it does not appear to be working very effectively, all it seems to have done is push the reasoning deeper and increase the inventiveness of those doing the declining. The net result is that a great deal of valuable experience is going to waste. As an organisation The Experience Network seeks to promote age diversity within the workplace.

Many experienced senior workers, who are seeking to return to the work place are regularly discriminated against purely because of their age, without any consideration of their abilities, skills and experience, and this is why The Experience Network is working to promote age diversity to try and eliminate this prejudice from the workplace. To ignore the vast pool of resources that the senior worker represents is not only wrong, but it is a waste of the nation’s skills and resources. It seems almost criminal, not to mention stupid when such a wealth of experience is simply cast aside because it wasn't gained overnight, but through the apprenticeship of life or just because the person has no university degree. A more experienced senior worker has so much to offer a potential employer, not just skills and experience, but reliability, punctuality and loyalty. They also tend to have more confidence, make better listeners and are more easily able to relate to customers on a level which suits the customer. Furthermore their experience is often the one single factor that enables them to be both pro-active and re-active in their work.

   

As for the myth that older workers are less computer literate and cannot deal with the new technology, it is just a lame excuse. Who do these people think wrote the applications on which those they use to day were based? Computing in the workplace for the masses arrived in the early eighties and a great many of today's 'older workers' were involved in it. They often have skills and an appreciation of things that younger less experienced workers have no concept of let alone ability to deal with.

 

Age Diversity in the Workplace & Other Useful Information
Age Diversity The ADE Code Guide to Age Law Corporate Policy Useful
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Useful Info Key Facts Discrimination Laws Links
 
 
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Send an email to: enquiries@the-experience-network.co.uk

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