Is 30 years old too old to find a job?

It depends on the type of job the person is applying for and it depends on her educational background and employment history, e.g. work experience.

Sales clerks at Malls and Department Stores, they don't hire girls older than 25. (18-25) In factories, they favor applicants who are less than 26. But also, that depends on the factory and skills needed. Crew and waitresses at fast food chains are usually young. (below 30y/o). Flight attendants, they prefer younger ones too.

If someone's 30 and she has good work experience and / educational background.. she can still get hired. If she's computer literate and fluent in English, she can try applying for a call center job. There are other jobs available, but it depends on the person's willingness to work.. There are jobs like... clerk, encoder, hair salon assistant, cashier, janitor/housekeeper in a hotel, day care center assistant, nanny, grocery assistant, etc. If she doesn't like these kind of jobs, she has the option to take vocational courses... be a hair dresser, nail artist, barista, dressmaker, massage therapist, transcriptionist, etc.

However, if a person is a doctor, a teacher or a manager in her 30's she can easily get a job.. because in these areas, experience matters.

No. I heard that the call center industry is not strict about the age requirement. For as long as she's good at speaking english or any required language she's definitely gonna land a job although this might not suit her taste but it's better to have money in her pocket than to have an empty stomach.

Yes, that's really a vivid age discrimination from the government side with their policy or perhaps from the employers. Of course if the concerning one is their family then the age is not anymore the issue but influence.

Besides the country hasn't got infrastructure like in Europe where everybody can benefit having job according to their capacity and knowledge, with or without school background.

The country practice discrimination and no one has the courage to voice out this bad mentality and practices. Their mentality remained primitive and stone age.

Do you know this to be a fact? Everything you are saying sounds like she is setting you up for something. Do you feel sorry for her, I'm sure you do. There are many like her in the Philippines. She is not so old that she cannot be a wife to someone else but they will have to take in to account her son.

Yes, she is probably unemployable except maybe like mentioned, in a Call Center.

I'm not going to lie to you... without a college degree, there's not a whole lot going for you. Sure, there will be entry-level work available for those who at least finished a high school level of education, but high-paying ones... pretty doubtful. And that's how it is invariably in every country you'd go to, so don't believe what the one whose user-name sounds like utot-fart says here. She's delusional, if not psychotic.

My advise, take whatever upstanding job you can find... and try your hardest to finish college. Sounds like she's already got a few years of university under her belt; she'll just have to try her hardest to get back on the wagon.

She is too old if she is trying to apply in a Bar.

In all other jobs NO! Its about her not having college degree that makes it hard for her to land in a decent job.

Lets drink to that.

Cheers.

In this country, a lack of credentials can be easily compensated by connections. If she lacks that as well, then she will have a difficult time looking for a job let alone a sustainable one.

Sounds more like underqualified than overage. She can land jobs at her age if she is not picky. If there is a will there is a way. ("kapag gusto may paraan, kapag ayaw may katwiran")

At 30 yrs old & no collage degree she cannot even get a job at a fast food place.

Sad but true

If your friend goes to an interview and speaks like mz zuotzuotin, she'll never get a job.