Term 1 Week 4 - Blog Prompt Q1

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

My name is Tay Ching Leon. I am going to discuss about the topic "Age and experience are important to the workforce in any country." Indeed, this is true. Nowadays, when you apply for a job, the employee will look at your age and your experience in the aspect of the job and decide whether to give you the job.

For example, if a young man and an old man are competing with each other for a job as a construction labourer, the employee will choose the young man as he is stronger and is much more fit than the old man. However, the circumstances will change if the young man and the old man are competing for a job as a construction foreman. The old man will be offered the job as he has more experience than the young man.

For a workforce in a country to be successful, it would require young experienced workers. Hence, youths should constantly improve themselves by learning new skills so that they will have more experience and will be able to help and contribute more to the workforce.

In my opinion, I feel that companies should have a balance of young and old workers so that young workers can learn new skills from the old workers and they can co-operate and help each other along.

I have come to the end of this discussion. Thank you.