Finding a job after 50: how to get your strategy right

With youth unemployment so highly-publicised right now, it's easy to overlook the plight of older workers. But the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the over-50s are actually more likely than the young to be long-term unemployed.

While only 4.4 percent of the over-50s are unemployed, compared with 19.1 percent of young people, almost half of these people have been out of work for over a year. The problem, according to Age UK, is that older workers are both more likely to be made redundant and less likely to find a new job quickly. Fewer than a quarter make it back into employment within three months, compared with 40 percent of 25-34-year-olds.

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