on own thing he addsprashant pandey country manager of right management india which is part of the manpower group says just because you are in your 50s does not make you more vulnerable compared to someone else your vulnerability quotient so to speak depends on your specialisation and the function you present people in their 50s or even 40s if they are in roles that dont add value to the business such as support functions or administration will always be in a vulnerable position and this will affect their reemployability in the job market on the other hand you may be 59and in a niche mergers and acquisitions role that will always keep in great demand in the job market in other words says pandey if you are in a valueadding function or have a specialised skill you are in a better place when redundancy hits than someone who is in a more general role no matter what your age then here are factors like payscale by virtue of spending eight or 10 years in a large conglomerate you might end up in a position where your salary and your job component are not in sync with each other thats when your point of vulnerability starts adds pandey so always reevaluate yourself and make sure your salary and job content are in line and dont necessarily be happy with the extra increment you receive that makes you build up liabilities and one day you may suddenly find the rug pulled from beneath your feetk vanessa has however landed on her feet after spending 18 years in a company which was into educational books for children and heading the bengaluru south division and handling training sales workshops liaising with parents and children and a hundred other responsibilities vanessa thought she would retire in her role but in the beginning of september she learnt that the india office was winding up operations it happened very suddenly she says as soon as i heard that i no longer had a job i called up my friend in hr and asked her to help me update my cv since then ive sent out my cv to many companies and even done a telephone interview im still wrapping up my old job so i havent gone full throttle yetwhile there is a sense of loss vanessa a single mom tries to put things in perspective my younger son who had just finished college was planning to take a gap year but when he heard i had lost my job he got a job in three days i think this is also a good opportunity for me to do something new i dont see my age as a disadvantage and i dont think hiring managers should either with age comes emotional strength a certain courage to be decisive and experience among other things you bring a lot to the table as you grow older