Ian Blair is 69 years young and something of a poster boy for career-minded job hunters aged over 45 - the definition of a mature age worker.
After a year spent looking for work, Mr Blair secured a permanent job as a senior consultant with Melbourne-based Prima Consulting, which provides software solutions for corporate and government clients.
"I am told there are not many 69-year-olds in the IT industry," he says.
Not that Mr Blair is a Luddite. He was using a computer to analyse farming productivity in the 1960s. He was an early internet user and "there at the beginning" of software languages such as SQL and integrated packages such as Microsoft Office.
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