Re:Why Ageism Never Gets Old
by kafkaesq on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:19PM
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This sort of mythology is NOT helping.
Unfortunately it's partially valid. Job ads in particular are (presumably for a want of some other way to whittle down the pile of incoming resumes) considerably biased towards frameworks and gizmos that have been around 3 years or less.
Yes there are new languages and frameworks we have to learn, but if we apply any effort ...
You'd think a lot of these places assuming we're all utterly incapable of "learning", they way they phrase some of these requirement lists.
Unfortunately it's partially valid. Job ads in particular are (presumably for a want of some other way to whittle down the pile of incoming resumes) considerably biased towards frameworks and gizmos that have been around 3 years or less.
Yes there are new languages and frameworks we have to learn, but if we apply any effort ...
You'd think a lot of these places assuming we're all utterly incapable of "learning", they way they phrase some of these requirement lists.