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Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you

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Re: Anon CVs

re. omitting academic qualifications... when I wanted to do apprenticeship (completely new area) and mentioned this and that, including ma, I received an honestly brutal assessment: you don't qualify, cause you're overqualified, sorry! And that was even before I mentioned my age (over 50), which would have made her run away in horror: you qualify for funeral, old, old man!

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