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Re:Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers by Markoff on Saturday June 24, 2017 @10:38AM (#14625730)
don't publish specific dates for your education and don't mention first few jobs which are anyway worthless, immediately you got few years younger

alternatively you could put your age data in some link with tracking to figure out if they had look at it

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Re:Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers by laughfactory on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:18PM (#14632239)
Yeah this will just drive intelligent folks to strip academics dates from their resumes, and limit things to one page containing only their recent employment history.

The article was horrifying because I'll be 40 next year, and am just now really getting rolling in my career. And I certainly don't think of myself as any less than my younger colleagues. Sure, I have more baggage and other priorities (bills, family, hobbies), but I still work hard and deliver a lot of value.

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