Allen & Overy appears to have bravely flouted age discrimination legislation by advertising a vacancy for "young" people.
The ad (below) was posted on the Magic Circle firm's own jobs website, so it seems it can't be blamed on some hapless recruitment consultant on a frolic of their own.
Let's hope someone old doesn't have to sack someone young over the error. After all, whatever the EU may proscribe with its so-called laws, A&O clearly understands that only teenage marketeers will be familiar with modern techniques vital for securing the future of its brand, such as partner-client 'selfies', 'sexting' about successful pitches and 'tagging' motorway underpasses with core values.
Younger readers with their cataract-free eyes will have spotted that the vacancy is at the firm's Luxembourg office, and an A&O spokesman bravely claimed that the slip was a "simple mistake of 'lost in translation".
He said, "The role is for a junior marketer of one or two years experience and as we all know, etymologically, junior comes from the Latin iunior, comparative of iuvenis "young", so one can easily see how the mistake could have been made, given Luxembourg’s historic links to Rome. But it is a mistake and one that we have now remedied and would like to thank the ever vigilant readers of RollOnFriday for rightly bringing to our attention".
Readers of any age are permitted to enter RollOnFriday's "scienterrific" (© Rof marketer, age 5) poll:
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The ad (below) was posted on the Magic Circle firm's own jobs website, so it seems it can't be blamed on some hapless recruitment consultant on a frolic of their own.
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Let's hope someone old doesn't have to sack someone young over the error. After all, whatever the EU may proscribe with its so-called laws, A&O clearly understands that only teenage marketeers will be familiar with modern techniques vital for securing the future of its brand, such as partner-client 'selfies', 'sexting' about successful pitches and 'tagging' motorway underpasses with core values.
Younger readers with their cataract-free eyes will have spotted that the vacancy is at the firm's Luxembourg office, and an A&O spokesman bravely claimed that the slip was a "simple mistake of 'lost in translation".
He said, "The role is for a junior marketer of one or two years experience and as we all know, etymologically, junior comes from the Latin iunior, comparative of iuvenis "young", so one can easily see how the mistake could have been made, given Luxembourg’s historic links to Rome. But it is a mistake and one that we have now remedied and would like to thank the ever vigilant readers of RollOnFriday for rightly bringing to our attention".
Readers of any age are permitted to enter RollOnFriday's "scienterrific" (© Rof marketer, age 5) poll:
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Which incidentally is from the Latin, meaning "brave"
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Funny when employers insert the usual diversity disclaimer: we do not discriminate on grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability etc etc
Blimey!
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