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Over 50 and need a job? "Forget it," say recruiters

Those of us who have ever been made redundant at the age of 45 or over will know the situation only too well. Now Channel 4’s exposé of recruiters discriminating against the over-50s has confirmed what we all suspected – that many recruitment agencies claim to have ‘lost’ CVs of more mature candidates when they’ve [...]