IF you could do it over again

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Age discrimination

Good grief... you think these hiring folks are stupid???

Yes. I do think they're stupid and narrow-minded. They cannot see beyond the screening profile they've been given. You asked.

C'mon. Lets just assume your logic is correct....rejection because of age.... Hiring departments have way too much to do than call people in for interivews that they plan on rejecting.

No, they don't. I believe that H.R. brings in quite a few people whom they don't plan on hiring. They do it to cover their asses on EOE and EEOC issues, to avoid being accused of discrimination.

Have you ever noticed that section at the bottom of application forms that invites you to check off questions about your age, gender and ethnicity? I am sure that is a federal requirement. You're d@mned if you and d@mned if you don't fill it out. Omit it, and it gives the impression of not being cooperative. Fill it in, and it gives them all the information they need to toss your app.

It's been said that H.R. now does everything it can to disqualify people, not qualify them. It used to be the other way around.

You went on 4 or 5 interiews??? That's more that a bunch of other folks. Think about that!

I have thought about it many times over the years. I knew of people who've gone on more. I consider my interview rate of return to be very low when compared against my resume, app and update output. Moreover, as I wrote above, I never heard from many of the regionals from whom my younger colleagues heard from. I applied to a few of these regionals for as long as six years! Go search my other posts for more.