I have removed any hints of my age from my resume, but I can’t hide it on camera. The moment the video HR screen starts, the tone often shifts, and I never make it past that first step. After ten straight polite rejections, it’s hard not to feel that my experience is being viewed as a liability — and that age, rather than ability, is deciding the outcome.

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This happened to me once during the interview process at Stryker. All the interviews leading up to hr final interview went great with positive feedback from the recruiter and then bam, once I reached the final interview with the compliance director, I could visibly see a shift in her tone and she lost interest in the interview. My heart sank and this was my first real experience with ageism. I was in my 40s but after the fact learned the group I was interviewing for was much younger. It’s not a great feeling.

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I'm right there with you. Going thru the same crap. I'm 60 I did my hair now and carry myself as a 45 year old.

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