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Re:We Rejected Dan Shipper (And What I Learned About Hiring) by sliverstorm on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:35PM (#3920482)
Whoa there. The quote can be interpreted two ways; the way you read it ("young, driven, intelligent" = "mentality and intellect of an A Player") and the way I read it ("mentality and intellect of an A Player. In addition, he was young, driven...")
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Re:We Rejected Dan Shipper (And What I Learned About Hiring) by dpritchett on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:59PM (#3920839)
There's no legal upside to publicly being interested in young people. The best you can really do is look for inexperienced people with low salary requirements.
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Re:We Rejected Dan Shipper (And What I Learned About Hiring) by orangecat on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @09:52PM (#3922038)
Either way, "young" is surrounded by a bunch of other clearly desirable attributes. Were I a litigious applicant over 40, I would find that significant.
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Re:We Rejected Dan Shipper (And What I Learned About Hiring) by SethMurphy on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:31PM (#3920723)
Agreed, but without the additional language you added, I did read it differently.
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