Is a 'Trainee' role aimed at...

DecML

School/college or Uni leavers or/and

anyone with the correct skills?

I keep seeing Trainee roles for a variety of roles, sport/sales/estate agent etc and being over 30, would I even be considered as I am looking at a new career sector having been in student support in schools for 8 years since leaving Uni.

Anyone advise? TIA.

agrinnall

I imagine that in general employers would expect to see most applications for trainee positions coming from younger people, but there's no reason why you couldn't apply as long as you meet the job criteria. In theory they wouldn't be allowed to discriminate against you because of your age but it's almost impossible to prove so you might have to be persistent to get interviews. The one issue that you could come up against is if the employer is looking to pay a wage based on the lower NMW rates for younger people, which they wouldn't be able to do with you.

wiogs

I once worked for a company which took on trainees. As discrimination on age grounds is not allowed one of the trainees we employed for two years was 56 years old.

double_mummy

one of our new trainees is early 30s the other a school leaver both training in the exact same thing it is always worth while going for them we were looking for people who were enthusiastic and wanted to learn rather than previous experience

GlasweJen

We take on trainees a lot, usually our store trains people for one of our directors other 2 stores (he owns 3 shops). The trainees vary from school leavers, people we keep on from the work programme and people returning to work after a career break for whatever reason. Yesterday I was training a man in his 50s on how to use MS office - he's being packed off to do the ECDL soon but had a question for now.

As long as you're willing to take training from someone younger than you it can work fine, I'm under 30 and some of our older trainees moved on/didn't get a contract at the end of their probation because they didn't like taking instruction from someone as young as me (or a newly qualified 23 year old) even though without the optometrists no one in our business would have a job to come to every day.

browneyedbazzi

I've worked at a few places where we had trainees in their 30s - people who had good work experience in another field but wanted a change for whatever reason.

I think a lot of employers would be happy to take on someone in their 30s who had the relevant skills/qualifications and some work experience over a kid fresh out of school. If you were 2 years from retirement then it may be a different story, but at 30 you've got a lot of working years left and are well worth investing in.

pinpin

DecML wrote: »

School/college or Uni leavers or/and

anyone with the correct skills?

I keep seeing Trainee roles for a variety of roles, sport/sales/estate agent etc and being over 30, would I even be considered as I am looking at a new career sector having been in student support in schools for 8 years since leaving Uni.

Anyone advise? TIA.

same problem as me.
I'm in my later 20's. I often look at 'trainee' jobs online, thinking (no experience/skills required, and they'll TRAIN me??) but they nearly always want a graduate or someone with lots of experience in the role.
Bit of a paradox, lol