<story><title>Claims of Age Bias Rise, but Standards of Proof Are High</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/your-money/trying-to-make-a-case-for-age-discrimination.html?em_pos=large&amp;emc=edit_nn_20160322&amp;nl=morning-briefing&amp;nlid=70045141&amp;ref=todayspaper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>I am 47. 27 years of professional experience. Got hooked in Basic. Fell in love with Pascal, C, C++, Smalltalk, Perl, and Java. Most new technologies are a re-encarnation of something that I did already the first time or second time around. I don&amp;#x27;t think my resume looks trendy. Still, I feel my skills are better than almost all of my friends and coworkers. They are 21-35. But, I see things that they don&amp;#x27;t. Subtle things like code organization, error handling, readability. I have a better CS background (compilers, networking,theory of languages,operating systems, relational theory, machine language). I know 100 ways in which a project can fail. My code is terse, I have been working on it for a long time.&lt;p&gt;Yet, I am scared to loose my job. I don&amp;#x27;t know if the recruiter will look past my age and lack of trendy technologies in my resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m right behind you! Some ideas I&amp;#x27;ve tried, who knows whether they work or not:&lt;p&gt;1. Remove everything from your resume past 6 or so years in the past. Put a little note at the bottom saying that your extended work history is available upon request. Nobody wants to read a resume over 1 page anyway.&lt;p&gt;2. Don&amp;#x27;t list any years on your education--just list the institutions. That&amp;#x27;s an easy way to leak your age.&lt;p&gt;3. Regularly scrub for &amp;quot;outdated&amp;quot; technologies and topics. Instead of writing perl scripts to parse log files and output reports with Tcl&amp;#x2F;Tk, you were a full-stack developer who processed data analytics from critical business infrastructure.</text></comment>
<story><title>Claims of Age Bias Rise, but Standards of Proof Are High</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/your-money/trying-to-make-a-case-for-age-discrimination.html?em_pos=large&amp;emc=edit_nn_20160322&amp;nl=morning-briefing&amp;nlid=70045141&amp;ref=todayspaper</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>huherto</author><text>I am 47. 27 years of professional experience. Got hooked in Basic. Fell in love with Pascal, C, C++, Smalltalk, Perl, and Java. Most new technologies are a re-encarnation of something that I did already the first time or second time around. I don&amp;#x27;t think my resume looks trendy. Still, I feel my skills are better than almost all of my friends and coworkers. They are 21-35. But, I see things that they don&amp;#x27;t. Subtle things like code organization, error handling, readability. I have a better CS background (compilers, networking,theory of languages,operating systems, relational theory, machine language). I know 100 ways in which a project can fail. My code is terse, I have been working on it for a long time.&lt;p&gt;Yet, I am scared to loose my job. I don&amp;#x27;t know if the recruiter will look past my age and lack of trendy technologies in my resume.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zippergz</author><text>This is one of the reasons I spend time on the weekends doing projects in new technologies. I can put Rails, React, Angular, Swift, etc. on my resume and answer questions about them (and point to projects I&amp;#x27;ve used them on). I see keeping up with new technologies as an important part of my career development. If someone is truly biased against me because of my age, there&amp;#x27;s not much I can do about that. But I definitely have control over whether someone is biased against me because I haven&amp;#x27;t kept up with technical developments.</text></comment>