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TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS
Our aging society calls for a workforce capable of meeting older adults’ diverse needs. Yet the extent that employers seek out a workforce with aging-related training or education is unclear, as is how people with such backgrounds search for positions. We describe an exploratory content analysis of...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6846742/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.187 |
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author | Clark-Shirley, Leanne J Newsham, Tina Kruger Guest, M A |
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description | Our aging society calls for a workforce capable of meeting older adults’ diverse needs. Yet the extent that employers seek out a workforce with aging-related training or education is unclear, as is how people with such backgrounds search for positions. We describe an exploratory content analysis of job postings to understand how employers are searching for applicants with aging-related backgrounds, and compare job posting keywords to terms used by a sample of aging-trained job seekers/employees. Results showed 35% of aging-related job postings used keywords expressing preference for applicants with aging-related backgrounds; the most commonly-occurring terms were “gerontology,” “Assisted living” + “adult day” + “director” + “nursing home administrator,” and “elderly.” Job seekers also cited “gerontology” as a term used to search for positions, along with “aging,” “older adults” and “seniors”. Findings suggest that employers should use more positively-connoted terms to attract applicants with aging-related backgrounds, rather than terms like “elderly.” |
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spelling | pubmed-68467422019-11-15 TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS Clark-Shirley, Leanne J Newsham, Tina Kruger Guest, M A Innov Aging Session 680 (Symposium) Our aging society calls for a workforce capable of meeting older adults’ diverse needs. Yet the extent that employers seek out a workforce with aging-related training or education is unclear, as is how people with such backgrounds search for positions. We describe an exploratory content analysis of job postings to understand how employers are searching for applicants with aging-related backgrounds, and compare job posting keywords to terms used by a sample of aging-trained job seekers/employees. Results showed 35% of aging-related job postings used keywords expressing preference for applicants with aging-related backgrounds; the most commonly-occurring terms were “gerontology,” “Assisted living” + “adult day” + “director” + “nursing home administrator,” and “elderly.” Job seekers also cited “gerontology” as a term used to search for positions, along with “aging,” “older adults” and “seniors”. Findings suggest that employers should use more positively-connoted terms to attract applicants with aging-related backgrounds, rather than terms like “elderly.” Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6846742/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.187 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session 680 (Symposium) Clark-Shirley, Leanne J Newsham, Tina Kruger Guest, M A TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS |
title | TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS |
title_full | TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS |
title_fullStr | TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS |
title_full_unstemmed | TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS |
title_short | TERMINOLOGY USED BY EMPLOYERS AND JOB SEEKERS FOR AGING-RELATED POSITIONS |
title_sort | terminology used by employers and job seekers for aging-related positions |
topic | Session 680 (Symposium) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6846742/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.187 |
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