The people setting up the job fair are setting it up to fail. Folks who go to these things need more personal attention than "apply online". The employers are likely missing out on good people by setting up these kinds of barriers. And as someone else said, the police department may have jobs for older workers, like clerical, but the rep doesn't seem to know how to convey that, if so. In the interest in avoiding lawsuits, they just parrot the "no age limit" line to a 50 something applicant, which is very unkind. The call center rep clearly doesn't understand the audience she's marketing her jobs to at that venue.

Agreed that her resume & interview skills could probably be polished some more, but where was the one on one with someone knowledgeable, not just a volunteer with fliers, to draw her in and encourage working on that process? Were there so many people that some of these HR reps couldn't look at her resume, talk to her, give some feedback? No. This system needs work and thought