The skills gap

For mature women, the workplace has never been so good; an increase in recruitment agencies specialising in the older worker indicates that, employers are no longer shying away from the issue of age. Wrinklies Direct, a recruitment agency specialising in jobs for ‘men and women of advancing years’, now have 12 branches across the country. Candidates who are up on IT skills are almost guaranteed a position. Women over the age of 45 are particularly sought after, since they are unlikely to take maternity leave.

If choice was ever a misery for workers, it certainly isn’t now when it comes to reskilling the workforce for the 21st Century.