Older employees of Silicon Valley job seekers encounter: give facelift to youthful-Silicon Valley-IT information

Foreign media before the author introduced the encounter of older employees in Silicon Valley. As technology has become obsolete, many of them was fired by the company, and some can only be playing some odd jobs, while others sold Endowment House, but there is also still have to go through plastic surgery just to get a new job. Following is the content of the original.

After losing her job last fall, andeliya·luodeligesi (Andrea Rodriguez) folded its suit. She didn't want to continue to work, but you had to in order to look younger. She was a successful trainer of SugarCRM, which is headquartered in Cupertino, California, company dedicated to enterprise sales marketing and customer service software.

But all of a sudden, over 50 years of Silicon Valley, she joined the army of job-seekers. She recalls, when I first started, there was a hiring manager had told her: "our team members ' ages vary widely--some people just out of College, the oldest is 48 years old. "She was tongue-tied, I do not know how to respond.

So, in the other interview since she no longer wears that 5 suit, but replaced by brightly-coloured sweater or jacket and matching dress. She began regular browsing Reddit, Yelp, IMDb and MSNBC, also from the Urban Dictionary to find the word they don't know, and good conversation with someone super hero movie, the Golden State Warriors and the Kardashian sisters.

She had 500 contacts on LinkedIn, she opened the Twitter, Pinterest, and Snapchat, or start a blog. Aruba wireless device manufacturer owned by Hewlett-Packard Company, a hiring manager can see her blog, so, when unemployed 5 months later, Rodriguez found a sales trainer jobs.

In order for around twenty or thirty colleagues see themselves as big sister, not aunt, she went through the lounge or the company's various activities mingle with colleagues. At this time, Reddit, and IMDb is used. "If you talk about the sound of music Julie Andrews (Julie Andrews), that they would have a chat. "She said," you will be you as an outsider. ”

United States employees ' median age is 42 years old, in the usual length, and this is very normal. But according to the market research firm PayScale statistics, median employee age in Silicon Valley tech companies are more likely to be 31 years old (Apple), 30 (Google and Tesla), 29 (Facebook and LinkedIn) and even younger.

San Francisco employment lawyer maikeer·weierqi (Michael Welch), said other industries are also phased out older employees and replace them with younger, cheaper workforce, but Bay area technology companies have no opinion of experienced resume, or even a trace of doubt. Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) in Silicon Valley, at the age of 22, had a famous summary temperament, he told audience of Stanford University said: "young people are smart. ”

Not all of the older employees will slip away. From 2008 to 2015, the California fair employment and Housing Ministry received a total of 226 for technology companies in Silicon Valley's 150 largest age discrimination complaints, 28% more than racial discrimination, 9% more than gender discrimination.

Last month, many of the old HP employees are suing after the split of HP Enterprise and Hewlett-Packard Company, claiming that they because of their age has become the target of mass layoffs. (Of which an employee is an efficiency expert, who has just won the highest performance rating of HP: 50,000 employees at HP, only 250 people to receive this honor. ）

Plaintiffs want to represent over 40 per cent of retrenched workers launched a class action suit, after they were replaced by a group of younger employees. Google age discrimination suit is scheduled for trial next year. These two cases, the plaintiffs declined to comment. HP and Google have denied the plaintiff's allegations, and said it would vigorously appeal.

Litigation costs are usually high, and often have an impact on the jobs of the future. Many older employees of technology companies will try to make yourself look younger, to please those smaller than their children's potential employer. In the process of preparing for interviews, in addition to conventional techniques – such as recent job listed on your resume, and update online profile photos--job seekers also will spend money on training, cater to the preferences of potential employers, or even change their appearance in various ways-even cosmetic surgery long.

California sangniweier ProMatch is a Government funded career counseling and networking projects, here, luobite·weisesi (Robert Withers) suggested his old delete more than 10 years of customer experience, and use professional photographer photos LinkedIn avatar, or even visiting the company's parking lot to get to know people's dressing style.

55 years old auto engineer maikeer·peileiduo (Michael Peredo) in February 2015 was fired by Mercedes-Benz. ProMatch suggested that he stop wearing t-bow tie, but he could do nothing. "I was uncomfortable not wearing a bow tie. "He said. After 18 months of unemployment, he finally found a part-time job in the Velodyne LiDAR company, writing software for driverless cars. Until that interview, he only tie.

"If you work in a large company for 10 years, and then was fired, your technology is likely to fall behind. "Silicon Valley social networking Hackers/Founders CEO qiaonasen·naerxun (Jonathan Nelson) said his company specifically for start-up developers organize the party," I know those CD's engineers had forty or fifty years old, some of them through training to learn mobile application development or large data technology--others as Uber limousine driver. ”

61 baobo·xiaoenboge (Bob Schoenberger) are out of luck. In 2010, as Applied Materials work to his old Club in Asia, causing him to lose their jobs. Since then, he has participated in many new programming language training courses outside of medical device maker Hospira when contractors, however, he and his wife had to rely on already dwindling unemployment benefits and savings to make ends meet, and was forced to sell the land they planned to live in retirement.

Xiaoenboge plans to participate in a training program for pharmacists. "I can get out of here, moved to cheaper places. "He said," I have to sell the House, run away. ”

A 60 year old software engineer in San Jose, a chip maker after 7 years of work, was fired in January this year. Now, he was wearing a casual shirt, khakis and sneakers to the interview, but also to local schools learning embedded systems (mobile phones and console), and has already begun its work, even dyed his gray hair black.

He had plastic surgery to get rid of eye bags and dark circles. "If you want to continue to work in this industry, it's best to keep up with the situation, but also to look as young as possible, after all, many people in this industry more than 20 years old. "He said," I want to work in the technology industry, because I like solving problems. I didn't save enough for their retirement money. ”

Even though spared no effort to make them look younger, still to no avail. As with many places, find a job in Silicon Valley often depends on personal connections. 54 xinxiya·xiusidun (Cynthia Houston) keep a young split up, wear clothes are also recommended by her niece, two years ago, but she was out of a job--or rather, she had a two-year contract.

Prior to becoming unemployed, used to be the project manager for VMware cloud services company in Houston, she recently is HP doing odd jobs, which was introduced by former colleagues. "Every job I so far are familiar introduction. "She said," but they now have a help. ”

硅谷大龄员工的求职遭遇：不惜整容以显年轻 - 硅谷 - IT资讯

外媒日前撰文介绍了年龄较大的员工在硅谷的遭遇。由于技能已经过时，他们中的很多人都遭到公司的解雇，有的只能打些零工，有的则卖掉了养老的房子，更有甚者还还不得不通过整容才能勉强找到新的工作。以下为原文内容。

去年秋天丢掉工作后，安德里亚·罗德里格斯（Andrea Rodriguez）收起了套装。她并不是不想继续工作，而是为了显得年轻一些才不得已而为之。她曾经是SugarCRM的一名成功的销售培训师，这家总部位于加州库比蒂诺的公司专门向企业销售营销和客服软件。

但突然之间，年逾50的她却加入了硅谷的求职大军。她回忆道，刚开始的时候，有一位招聘经理曾经告诉她：“我们团队成员的年龄差异很大——有的人刚刚大学毕业，年龄最大的也有48岁了。”她顿时语塞，不知如何回应。

所以，此后参加其他面试时，她再也不穿那5身套装了，而是换成了色彩鲜艳的毛衣或夹克，然后搭配上裙子。她开始定期浏览Reddit、Yelp、IMDb和MSNBC，还从Urban Dictionary上查找自己不认识的单词，好跟别人攀谈超级英雄电影、金州勇士队和卡戴珊姐妹。

她在LinkedIn上有500个联系人，她还开通了Twitter、Pinterest和Snapchat，甚至开始写博客。惠普企业公司旗下的无线设备制造商Aruba的一位招聘经理看到了她的博客，于是，在当了5个月的无业游民后，罗德里格斯又找到了一份销售培训师的工作。

为了让身边那些二三十岁的同事把自己当成大姐，而不是大妈，她特意通过休息室或公司的各种活动跟同事们打成一片。这时，Reddit和IMDb便派上了用场。“如果你聊起《音乐之声》里面的茱莉·安德鲁斯（Julie Andrews），那就没得聊了。”她说，“你会被大家当成局外人。”

美国在职员工的年龄中位数是42岁，以常规的工龄来看，这样的年龄很正常。但据市场研究公司PayScale统计，硅谷科技公司的员工年龄中位数却更有可能是31岁（苹果）、30岁（谷歌和特斯拉）、29岁（Facebook和LinkedIn），甚至更年轻。

旧金山就业律师迈克尔·韦尔奇（Michael Welch）表示，其他行业也在淘汰年龄较大的员工，代之以年纪更轻、成本更低的劳动力，但湾区的科技公司对经历丰富的简历尤其没有好感，甚至存有一丝质疑。马克·扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）曾在22岁时对硅谷的气质进行了一番著名的总结，他当时对斯坦福大学的听众们说：“年轻人就是聪明。”

并非所有上了年纪的员工都会悄悄离开。从2008年到2015年，加州公平就业和住房部共收到了226起针对硅谷150家规模最大的科技公司的年龄歧视投诉，比种族歧视高出28%，比性别歧视高出9%。

上月，惠普的很多老员工起诉分拆后的惠普企业公司和惠普公司，声称他们因为年龄问题成为了大规模裁员的目标。（其中有一位员工是一位效率专家，他刚刚获得了惠普的最高绩效评分：在惠普的5万名员工中，只有250人获此殊荣。）

原告希望代表年过40的被裁员工发起集体诉讼，他们离职后都被一批年纪更轻的员工取代。针对谷歌发起的年龄歧视诉讼也计划于明年开庭。这两起案件的原告拒绝对此置评。惠普和谷歌都否认了原告的指控，并表示将积极应诉。

诉讼成本通常很高，而且往往会对未来的就业产生影响。很多年纪较大的科技公司员工都会尽量让自己显得年轻一些，以此取悦那些比自己孩子还小的潜在老板。在准备面试的过程中，除了常规技巧外外——例如只在简历上列出最近的工作内容，以及更新网上的资料照片——求职者还会花钱参加培训，迎合潜在雇主的喜好，甚至通过各种方式改变自己的外貌——连整容都在所不惜。

加州桑尼韦尔的ProMatch是一个获得政府资助的就业咨询和人脉项目，在这里，罗比特·威瑟斯（Robert Withers）建议他的中老年客户删掉所有超过10年的履历，并使用专业摄影师拍摄的照片制作LinkedIn头像，甚至前往即将应聘的公司的停车场去了解人们的穿衣风格。

55岁的汽车工程师迈克尔·佩雷多（Michael Peredo）2015年2月被奔驰公司解雇。虽然ProMatch的人建议他不要再穿着T恤打领结，但他却怎么也做不到。“不戴领结我浑身都不舒服。”他说。失业了18个月后，他终于在激光雷达公司Velodyne找到了一份零工，为无人驾驶汽车编写软件。直到那次面试前，他才解下了领结。

“如果你在一家大公司工作了10年，然后被解雇了，你的技术很有可能早就落后了。”硅谷社交网络Hackers/Founders CEO乔纳森·纳尔逊（Jonathan Nelson）说，他的公司专门为创业公司的开发者组织聚会，“我知道那些被裁的工程师都已经四五十岁了，他们有的人通过培训学会了移动应用开发或大数据技术——还有的人则当起了Uber专车司机。”

61岁的鲍勃·肖恩伯格（Bob Schoenberger）就很不走运。2010年，由于老东家Applied Materials把他的工作外包到亚洲，导致他丢了饭碗。自那以后，他已经参加过很多新型编程语言培训课，但除了在医疗设备制造商Hospira当合同工外，他和妻子只能依靠如今已经日渐枯竭的失业津贴和存款来维持生计，甚至被迫卖掉了他们原计划退休后前往居住的土地。

肖恩伯格计划参加一个药剂师培训项目。“我只能离开这里，搬到更便宜的地方去。”他说，“我只好卖掉房子，远走高飞。”

有一位60岁的软件工程师在圣何塞的一家芯片制造商工作了7年后，于今年1月遭到解雇。现在，他穿着休闲衬衣、卡其裤和运动鞋去面试，还会到当地的进修学校学习嵌入式系统（手机和家用游戏机），而且已经开始工作，甚至把他那花白的头发染成了黑色。

他还通过整容手术去掉了眼袋和黑眼圈。“如果你想继续在这个行业工作，那最好跟上形势，而且要看上去尽可能年轻一点，毕竟这个行业的很多人都只有20多岁。”他说，“我还想在科技行业工作，因为我喜欢解决问题。我还没存够退休的钱。”

即使不遗余力地让自己看上去更加年轻，或许仍然无济于事。与很多地方一样，在硅谷找工作往往要靠人脉。54岁的辛西娅·休斯顿（Cynthia Houston）留着一个年轻的偏分头，穿的衣服也都是她的侄女推荐的，但她还是在两年前失业了——或者说，她已经当了两年的合同工。

失业前，休斯顿曾经是云服务公司VMware的项目经理，她最近在给惠普打零工，这是以前的同事介绍的。“我迄今为止的每份工作都是熟人介绍的。”她说，“但他们现在已经帮不上忙了。”