Brooks Management

WANTED: Employees who are honest, responsible, dependable, loyal, focused, organized and mature

 Is this too much to ask?

American employers spend millions of hours each year placing ads, interviewing, hiring and training workers  only to find out that many of the new hires work for only a few months and then decide they don’t want to be “just a clerk” anymore as they work their way up the corporate ladder.

Where can American employers find dependable, steady employees who have no plans to move up and out?

The answer, we have seen in many business ventures, is senior citizens or older workers.

Here are a few advantages of hiring mature workers that may solve managers difficulties with maintaining a reliable, dedicated workforce and result in significant cost savings in both the long and short term.

Dedicated workers produce quality work, which can result in significant savings.                                                                                                                   

Punctuality seems to be a given for older workers. They look forward to going to work each day, so they arrive on time and ready to work.

Honesty is common among many older workers, whose values include personal integrity and a devotion to the truth.

Maturity comes from years of life and work experience and makes for workers who get  less “rattled” when problems occur.

Setting an example for others employees is an intangible value many employers appreciate. Mature workers make excellent mentors and role models, so training other employees is less difficult.

Mature workers unique skills and values make hiring them a simple matter of rethinking the costs of high turnover in a more youthful workforce versus the benefits of experience and mature standards that mature workers bring to the mix. Some employers like Home Depot may allow employees to split time between two states such as Massachusetts and Florida so that you won’t stop your employee contract.