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I want to ask how do you know how old an applicant is? Can't they change their date of birth?
Facebook, LinkedIn work history, googling their name. Seeing their kids ages. Their appearance in pictures........and the dreaded @yahoo and @hotmail email accounts! Some of the resumes also incorporate styles, fonts, or formats that are from a different era.
I don't know, I'd say being gone from US labor force for 20 years was probably more concerning to the potential employers than your age. I was gone for only a year on couple of different occasions and it came up in every single interview. Let alone 20 years.
He wasn't out of the workforce, he was working in another country doing the same work.
Facebook, LinkedIn work history, googling their name. Seeing their kids ages. Their appearance in pictures........and the dreaded @yahoo and @hotmail email accounts! Some of the resumes also incorporate styles, fonts, or formats that are from a different era.
Not on Facebook, yahoo or have pics of kids online. Removed graduation dates work history goes back only 15 years. Its fair to say that my appearance is the key thing to alter. Amazing such a simple thing.
I want to ask how do you know how old an applicant is? Can't they change their date of birth?
You can run but you can't hide. Any potential employer, heck, ANYONE can find your true age if they know your real name just by googling it.
Just try to look yourself up. I'll bet that some information comes up like: Joe Doe, 63 years old.
So no matter how you manipulate your resume, how young you look, how you hide your information on Facebook or LinkedIn, inquiring minds will always know. Big Brother? Yep.
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He wasn't out of the workforce, he was working in another country doing the same work.
Aha. Why don't you re-read what I posted and do the same for your reply? Then smack yourself in the forehead, and say duhhhh.
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