Tip Sheet

Age-Inclusive Hiring for Small Businesses

This tip sheet is intended for:

  • Small business owners experiencing difficulty hiring and recruiting experienced talent
  • Recruiters with urgent hiring needs

Use this tip sheet to:

  • Start designing an age-inclusive sourcing, recruiting, hiring and onboarding process

 

Small businesses often don’t have formal or highly structured hiring and recruiting processes, so thinking about them through an age inclusive lens may seem irrelevant at first but small businesses can benefit from such an approach. Incorporating age inclusivity into hiring and recruiting is more important than ever, with five generations of workers represented in today’s workforce and the fierce competition for great talent.

This tip sheet will serve as a guide for small employers who want to learn different strategies for age proofing the hiring and recruitment process, and in turn attract a multigenerational pool of candidates.