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Roedy Green
Oct 21, 2011, 10:10:36 PM10/21/11
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I have been adding birth/death dates to all the quotations and book
referrals on my website. I discovered something strange. Computer
people almost never mention their birth date, not even the year,
anywhere, not even in their resumes. They will give the birthdates of
their children, but not themselves.
Birthdates are great for disambiguation. That is why they use them so
much in hospitals. They also give an idea of amount of experience.
Yet oddly people will brag about X decades of experience. They are not
trying to hide their approximate age.
I am also surprised how few people choose to put a photo in their
resume. I thought that was mandatory. Without it, how can people
remember you?
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referrals on my website. I discovered something strange. Computer
people almost never mention their birth date, not even the year,
anywhere, not even in their resumes. They will give the birthdates of
their children, but not themselves.
Birthdates are great for disambiguation. That is why they use them so
much in hospitals. They also give an idea of amount of experience.
Yet oddly people will brag about X decades of experience. They are not
trying to hide their approximate age.
I am also surprised how few people choose to put a photo in their
resume. I thought that was mandatory. Without it, how can people
remember you?
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
It should not be considered an error when the user starts something
already started or stops something already stopped. This applies
to browsers, services, editors... It is inexcusable to
punish the user by requiring some elaborate sequence to atone,
e.g. open the task editor, find and kill some processes.
Boudewijn Dijkstra
Nov 8, 2011, 1:45:52 PM11/8/11
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Op Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:10:36 +0200 schreef Roedy Green
<see_w...@mindprod.com.invalid>:
department once. I had never ever seen a resume without a birth date, so
when I noticed it missing during the interview, I mentioned it. My
startled US colleagues then assured me that it was normal and not
mandatory.
Omitting birth dates does not prevent age-discrimination, it only makes a
hard age-limit impossible.
> Birthdates are great for disambiguation. That is why they use them so
> much in hospitals. They also give an idea of amount of experience.
>
> Yet oddly people will brag about X decades of experience. They are not
> trying to hide their approximate age.
>
> I am also surprised how few people choose to put a photo in their
> resume. I thought that was mandatory. Without it, how can people
> remember you?
How they should remember you: by your skills and experience.
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<see_w...@mindprod.com.invalid>:
> I have been adding birth/death dates to all the quotations and book
> referrals on my website. I discovered something strange. Computer
> people almost never mention their birth date, not even the year,
> anywhere, not even in their resumes. They will give the birthdates of
> their children, but not themselves.
I was involved in selecting candidates for a US-based engineering
> referrals on my website. I discovered something strange. Computer
> people almost never mention their birth date, not even the year,
> anywhere, not even in their resumes. They will give the birthdates of
> their children, but not themselves.
department once. I had never ever seen a resume without a birth date, so
when I noticed it missing during the interview, I mentioned it. My
startled US colleagues then assured me that it was normal and not
mandatory.
Omitting birth dates does not prevent age-discrimination, it only makes a
hard age-limit impossible.
> Birthdates are great for disambiguation. That is why they use them so
> much in hospitals. They also give an idea of amount of experience.
>
> Yet oddly people will brag about X decades of experience. They are not
> trying to hide their approximate age.
>
> I am also surprised how few people choose to put a photo in their
> resume. I thought that was mandatory. Without it, how can people
> remember you?
--
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