There is a tendency to assume that employers veer towards people with less experience in the market place. Why is that? Do they consider the mature applicant to be less flexible, less driven and less technologically aware? It would be naive to think that age isn’t taken into account, when employers are looking at a prospective applicant. However the number of people working beyond the age of 65, is, apparently, rising by a third, according to the ‘office of National Statistics and so the competition for challenging senior roles will increase; this is especially true of the ‘Interim Management’ market place.
A great many ‘purchasing’ activities are ‘project’ driven – therefore it would follow that the older one is, the greater the experience on a diverse range of projects. Functional projects such as business process re-engineering, information technology, financing of new product launches, franchising and licensing agreements, critical commercial negotiations, export development and sales improvement etc.,
In an increasingly competitive business environment, mature ‘Interim Managers’ would be...