Age on CVs....

[ratewhore]

mother and daughter? A wasted opportunity...

[mcquiggd]

Erm, well I have been invited round for dinner on friday, but youd be suprised to learn im a hopeless romantic - sent a couple of boxes of truffles from my soujourn in Luxembourg and a chilled bottle of Chablis round to theirs by taxi to say thankyou

My glaswegian friend is really jealous and keeps asking about the mum - makes me feel a bit... uneasy

[DodgyAgent]

Ageism

The concept of ageism is a blunt definition that is used by people who either cannot accept the realities of their own situation or as a tool for incompetent interfering legislators to manipulate us into giving them extra power

here are a few tips for you oldies that will remove ageism from the equation:

1. If someone wants somebody who is young, who is keen to learn and still has not yet paid off their mortgage then live with it. If you are old, people want you for the potential that you have already fulfilled, be proud of your age.

2. When people cite that they want someone who is young for no apparent good reason it usually means that they dont want some grumpy old git who will not listen, who will not change and who will be obstructive.
Key signs for these people are above all else people who say in an interview that I"I have been doing this for fifteen years". Even worse "I have been doing this for 15 years and this is the way that I believe it should be done..no other way works"

3. If you have done something dont say how long you have done it, just say what your achievements were and how you did it.

4. Never criticise others

5. Be positive about everything that you have done.. If you are positive about this then the client will think that you wiill have a positive attitude about everything.

6. And FFS keep the CV to 2 pages.

7. If you think recruiters are too stupid to work out your age from your CV then you are daft

DA

[mcquiggd]

Some recruiters are too stupid to spell SQL so why should I assume they can work out my age?

[voron]

we went clubbing

You went clubbing??? Jesus, what sort of geek are you?

You went clubbing??? Clubbing? My God

[mcquiggd]

I did impress them with the C# editor on my Windows Mobile 5 based PDA though.

[voron]

I did impress them with the C# editor on my Windows Mobile 5 based PDA though.

That's better, but still...clubbing! Are you sure you’re not really some handsome ‘in crowd’ type pretending to be a geeky IT contractor?

Just so long as AtW stays away from the disco, the geek royalty will maintain its purity.

[Francko]

That's better, but still...clubbing! Are you sure you’re not really some handsome ‘in crowd’ type pretending to be a geeky IT contractor?

Just so long as AtW stays away from the disco, the geek royalty will maintain its purity.

BtW, have you tried any of those new "russian" discos in London? I am tempted to show them to some friends of mine, just to see what they have been missing in England.

[xoggoth]

How would they work out age from a CV if us cleverer old sorts leave off all the older stuff? Whatever one's age, in a fast changing field like IT, what is the point of it anyhow? Probably anyhting futhre back than ten tears is a weaste of paper.

[OwlHoot]

6. And FFS keep the CV to 2 pages.

Two pages?! I'm hardly started by page 3, and mine's six pages

Surely it's not too much effort for an agent to skip past the education and experience summary to look at the latest contract - two "page down" keys FFS!