Well, a new Gallup report reveals something you might already know: If you were under age 30, then you'd probably be sitting in a status update meeting by now.
Last week, Gallup released its Job Creation Index, which measures net hiring activity. Gallup found that U.S. employees in the 18-to-29 demographic "are significantly more likely than older workers to report working for companies that are hiring new people." In other words, they're employed and watching other new people get hired, and how!
According to Gallup's numbers, new hiring between January and April 2015 was net +43 among younger workers. This number drops by 13 points (+30) for employees in the 30-to-49 age range.
Kind of like aging, it's only downhill from there. New hiring was net +21 among those in the 50-to-64 age range. For anyone over the age of 65, the net hiring average was +14.
So our likelihood of saying, "My company is hiring!" decreases with age. Sure, we could scream "AGE BIAS!" at the top of our lungs, but let's not pull a muscle. There's also a chance that we may not be correct in our knee-jerk assumptions. I'll give you a minute to adjust your bifocals and find the optimal screen distance so you may read Gallup's report summary:
One potential explanation for these findings is tied to young people's likelihood to be recent hires themselves. While the Gallup Daily tracking data do not measure how long a worker has been at his or her current job, one could assume that younger workers are more likely to have been hired more recently than older workers simply because of their age. To that point, the median tenure of 20- to 24-year-old workers was 1.3 years in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while 45- to 54-year-old workers had been with their current employer for a median of 7.9 years. In other words, because young people are more likely to have recently sought new employment opportunities, they have naturally ended up at organizations and firms that are expanding their workforces.More generally, younger Americans tend to be more positive than older Americans about the economy -- particularly on forward-looking measures. This positivity is evident in younger versus older Americans' confidence in the national economy and reports of their standard of living.
Hmm. So young people are getting new jobs because they're more likely to be moving optimistically between jobs, while older workers tend to be crabby, stay put, and ask a lot of uncomfortable questions. Such as, could what the under-30s are reporting point to a prevalence of new, entry-level work positions than higher-level positions that would mesh with older workers' skills, job experience, former job titles, and previous pay scales?
As you fine-tune your resume by eliminating college graduation dates and job positions that are more than five years in the past, please remember: All you need is positivity, just like the Spice Girls song says! Do not mention the Spice Girls in a job interview, though. It would make you look old.
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