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Old 02-15-2019, 06:01 AM
 
Location: New Britain, CT
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They should have a pic including people of every color shade possible, a person of every age, every variation of sex and the same variations of people dressed up to represent every religion. Then you have all kids of people across the spectrum. Religious or not. Anything else is discriminatory.

May as well put a person in a wheelchair in the pic as well, so as not to offend.....
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Old 02-15-2019, 06:04 AM
 
Location: New Britain, CT
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What I see is that I apply for jobs that I'm qualified to do, and never hear back or get immediate robo replies that I don't fit what they are looking for.... I just turned 56.


On the other hand, one of my former customers stumbled across my resume on Indeed. Interview next week.
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Old 02-15-2019, 06:10 AM
 
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How's this for ageism on job boards:

* Year of graduation from degree is a MANDATORY field.
* Your birthdate is a mandatory field.
*Are you over 40?

Can't bypass it.

*Are you Caucasian?

*Gender?

Only can be bypassed sometimes, depending on where the questions are coming from (piped through indeed by the employer or via their own site w/Taleo, brassring, etc)

(because we are claiming to require and report this information to the feds to prove that we're not discriminating while we use the information that you are providing to, well, discriminate)
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Old 02-15-2019, 12:41 PM
 
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may as well put a person in a wheelchair in the pic as well, so as not to offend.....
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Old 02-15-2019, 12:47 PM
 
Location: TN/NC
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How's this for ageism on job boards:

* Year of graduation from degree is a MANDATORY field.
* Your birthdate is a mandatory field.
This, along with terms like "energetic."
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Old 02-15-2019, 05:13 PM
 
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This, along with terms like "energetic."
Don't forget terms like

* Digital Native (i.e. no Gen X'ers, though we grew up in a digital world too, anddefinitely no boomers!)
* received their degree recently:
https://100rsns.blogspot.com/2016/08...-go-stale.html
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Old 02-15-2019, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Southern California
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I haven't seen a job posting like that containing all white young people in ages. I didn't see what state that was, but that's showing some "diversification"!...NOT.
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Old 02-16-2019, 12:28 PM
 
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Ageism in Silicon Valley.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/si...lem-2017-09-26

Remember, Zuck said "young people are just smarter" - so he tilted his hand. That's why the average age of employees in Facebook is 29.
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Old 02-16-2019, 01:51 PM
 
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Ageism in Silicon Valley.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/si...lem-2017-09-26

Remember, Zuck said "young people are just smarter" - so he tilted his hand. That's why the average age of employees in Facebook is 29.
Scary. I didn't know that people got stupider as they got older. I thought it was the other way around. Oh wait, younger workers cost less money than older ones. So I can see how "smart" it is to hire youngsters.
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Old 02-16-2019, 03:08 PM
 
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That looks like a stock photo, so you wouldn't know if the actual employees are mostly white people in their 20s.



But I have noticed going to some job interviews that the employees there tended to fit a profile. And if you don't fit the profile, then you will be passed over. I've seen this, where the companies are constantly posting for the same jobs month after month.
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