When experience works against you

More Americans 55 and older are working longer, and those who are looking for jobs face a technologically transformed market where potential employers often deem them overqualified.

By Tiffany Hsu / The Bulletin
April 19, 2009

Their savings in shambles from the economic downturn, jobless seniors are dusting off their briefcases and trying to head back to work. Many, like Jim Mitchell, a 63-year-old former sales executive, are finding a merciless job market where decades of experience isn’t necessarily an....

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