Guest of BFM Business, the director of the Executive Employment Agency encouraged recruiters to change their view of executives over 55.
While many sectors such as IT or corporate finance are struggling to find new recruits, the use of senior executives could be a solution. This is what Gilles Gateau, director general of the Agency for Executive Employment (Apec), said on Monday on BFM TV: “It is clear that there are difficulties in recruiting for many companies and opposite, there are reserves of skills. I’m talking about senior executives, there are 100,000 who are over 55 and who are now registered with Pôle Emploi. These are resources and skills that we must be able to use to move towards full employment. “.
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Emmanuel Macron has, in fact, set himself the ambition of flirting with full employment by 2027. As a reminder, the labor market is thus considered when the unemployment rate fluctuates between 4 and 5%. In the first quarter of 2022, this rate was 7.3% in France.
This exclusion of seniors “is a real subject that we tend to look at with too much fatalism. It is the look of recruiters that needs to be changed and also that of the executives themselves», claims Gilles Gateau, before continuing: “Senior executives have often internalized the fact that their age becomes an obstacle. You have to look at other forms of activity, not necessarily the CDI. We must mourn what is called mirror employment, that is to say the idea that we will find the same job with the same salary in the same type of company. We’ll have to move too“.
Added to this is that senior executives have not suffered from hardship problems during their careers., “which makes it all the more incomprehensible that we exclude, because they are 50 or 55 years old, experienced executives“, deplores the director general of Apec.
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In this sense, on the initiative of the L’Oréal group and Club Landoy, think tank on the demographic transition, 32 large companies made a commitment in mid-March to enhance the place of seniors in business. These companies must recruit people at all stages of their careers but also promote the transmission of knowledge between generations.
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