Ever considered downplaying your age during a job search?
Yes, it’s illegal to make discriminatory hiring decisions based on age, but if I had a nickel for every time a client asked what I thought about the topic, the notion must be alive and well, if only unseen.
Libraries, bookstores, and online articles are jam-packed with career development articles dedicated to euphemizing, masking, or spinning a person’s seniority to postpone the discovery of age.
But stop the presses a minute.
Instead of masking your age, have you considered taking an active role in capitalizing on your experience for everything it represents?
So what to do? Continue reading
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