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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a federal hiring manager in my late 40s, I prefer hiring people in their 50s to people in their 20s and regularly choose the older candidate when it's a close call. Best of luck.[/quote]

So you discriminate based on age. Nice.[/quote]

In the federal government you can't discriminate against people for being 40 or older, and I'm not doing that. People in their 50s are usually easier to manage and better colleagues, there are exceptions but I'd rather have someone with 30 years of professional experience.[/quote]

Not just the federal government, this is true everywhere. There is no such thing as discriminating against someone for being too young (unless, I guess, you prefer 60 year olds to 40 year olds--age discrimination doesn't "kick in" until age 40). That is of course commonsense because age does in fact bring experience and hopefully brings some wisdom. As someone who works with a lot of 20 year olds, I envy those who can write off the entire decade and not have to deal with anyone learning how to be in a professional environment for the first time.[/quote]

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