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Re:Normal for recruiters to ask for last 4 of your social / ... by geomark on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:34AM (#12899113)
That's kind of interesting, sort of reverse age discrimination. Although, does that mean they tend to prefer younger hires since they will take less time off work?
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Re:Normal for recruiters to ask for last 4 of your social / ... by gcp on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @05:37AM (#12899128)
does that mean they tend to prefer younger hires since they will take less time off work?

Yes, that's usually how that works. Note also the salary aspect the OP already pointed out: they can get away with paying a younger person less, because this discrimination is industry wide and extremely entrenched.

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