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Re:Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers by eatbitseveryday on Saturday June 24, 2017 @12:09AM (#14624317)
How does one determine the age of an applicant from the resume? It's not recommended to put your birthdate. Years in the workforce?
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Re:Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers by Markoff on Saturday June 24, 2017 @10:35AM (#14625719)
graduation year or first employment

though you can just list your education without specific years and also skip mentioning first worthless jobs anyway to make yourself younger

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Re:Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers by tyingq on Saturday June 24, 2017 @12:53AM (#14624419)
A fair number of people list graduation dates.
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