No. We are talking about the selection or rejection of people with or without justified reasons.
Ageism refers to discrimination without a justified reason. For example, someone’s beard is grey, he is not considered, or gets negative points.
If a valid reason is provided to the person, young or old, pertaining to the performance in the job, that’s fine. The person can perhaps work on it and improve.
At the end, the person who better performs a job and delivers should get that job, irrespective of gender, age, religion, etc.
If you provide the true reason specific to the person why you didn't hire them, and it's an actual job issue they can improve other than "wait until you're 30", that's one thing.
On the other hand, you said "I now stay away from hiring below 30s." You may have had all kinds of bad experiences after hiring younger folks, but none of those are the fault of the person sitting across the table from you when you interview the next person. You're stereotyping. It's ageism.
Ageism refers to discrimination without a justified reason. For example, someone’s beard is grey, he is not considered, or gets negative points.
If a valid reason is provided to the person, young or old, pertaining to the performance in the job, that’s fine. The person can perhaps work on it and improve.
At the end, the person who better performs a job and delivers should get that job, irrespective of gender, age, religion, etc.