Generally is three age brackets for those job hunting. This is from past experience running a GA outfit looking over what seemed like a billion resumes coming through the door each year.
20-30yrs 95%
30-40yrs 4%
40-50yrs 1%
Our preferred candidate age was someone in the second bracket. Sadly they just didn’t exist. And the last bracket, they most certainly did not exist.
The interesting thing was, the more ‘creative’ and interesting CVs, came from the second and third bracket. Past life experience is of interest to myself in addition to flying skills. When my admin said she had a mid 30s boy or girls resume in her hand, my ears picked up, only get a couple a year. All resumes from 20 year olds are the same, most of them have no life experience and cannot even have a decent conversation with you, let alone dress appropriately for an interview. I hired the 35 yr old who then became the CP, and many years later is now a Training Captain on the Airbus at a bigger outfit.