Looking for a Perl development position in London

Raphael Mankin raph at mankin.org.uk
Thu Feb 4 18:15:52 GMT 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:11 +0000, James Laver wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Dominic Thoreau
> <dominic at thoreau-online.net> wrote:
> >
> >[snip]
> 
> Some of my over-40 friends assume that a number of jobs they've been
> declined for are about age, but not in the usual manner. People of
> that age bracket tend to have commitments, family etc. and tend not to
> want to work 100 hour weeks in the office for some crappy startup that
> pays tuppence a week.
> 
> >From my own point of view, things have picked up since I stopped
> putting my age on my CV.

Employers cannot ask your age, but they can ask when you graduated. It
is not difficult to convert one to the other.



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