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Subject:Re: age discrimination From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Fri, 9 May 1997 09:33:04 -0700
Steve Brooks wrote:
>If an employer has to ask when you graduated high school/college, it
>must not be stated on the resume. Is it now preferable to leave
>graduation dates off the resume?
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Preferable? I don't know.
Granted, GEDs can be earned at any age, but in general, indicating the
year you graduated from HS is a dead giveaway to your age. College
graduation dates are not as telling because people of all ages are
graduating from college.
Bev Parks
parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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