treetop2
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25536126-12377,00.html
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They'll hire you in a heartbeat. Wait til you're over 50 though, and want paid for your experience.
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Face it, we live in a youth obssessed society and the hiring personnel are younger these days because of the change in the job culture; people do not stay in the same jobs for their whole lives...if they don't leave, management usually gets rid of them when they start gaining seniority and in the pay scale. People are conditioned in government school to only be comfortable around people like themselves, their own age group, so if there is a choice btw someone with oodles of experience and more gray hair and someone their own age with whom they can compare piercings and tatoos they will hire the pierced and tattooed. Sometimes they don't want to pay for experience so they hire new grads top keep costs down and dump them on a seasoned supervisor who must continually teach and watch them (some new grads are downright incompetent these days). The business mentality does not view experience in a nurse as much of a plus, we are all simply cogs to them to plug into slots and they "budget" for a certain number of lawsuits. It's all "just business" and quality costs. They hire older new grads in the SNF where I work but the key is "new grad+cheaper labor".
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Sweet Lemon, age may have a LOT to do with it. When I hit 50 all of a sudden I stopped getting call backs to job inquiries and from interviews. I used to get calls from HR and nursing managers BEGGING me to come work for them, now I am invisible. OF COURSE, it probably has NOTHING to do with the fact that most of the folks that hold the hiring positions are now half my age and probably think I'm a granny to be put out to pasture. Go to the websites and check out the ages of the people pictured there. Not many gray hairs. My attendance is way better than the young chickies who call off every other weekend because they're out getting drunk the night before....sometimes with the bosses! I hadn't had a call off in 5 years until I had to have a hernia operation a few years ago.