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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by paxy on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:02PM (#15462367)
Try making your age completely ambiguous on your resume and see what the response is. E.g. remove college graduation date, replace specific dates of employment with 5 years, over 10 years etc.
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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by Sinergy2 on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:27AM (#15463633)
It's obvious when applicants do this. There's no plausible deniability unless younger applicants start doing the same thing out of solidarity someday.
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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by ddebernardy on Friday October 13, 2017 @01:00AM (#15463379)
Also: discard experience from over X years ago.
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