On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:11 +0000, James Laver wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Dominic Thoreau > <domi...@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.