As this matter affects me personally I've decided to experiment a bit.
Your birthday is a part of your personal details and as such it should be treated accordingly, so why make it available in a public document like your CV?
Besides being a security liability (among your name and permanent residency, your birthday is one of three personal details needed by a criminal to commit forgery against you), birthdays are maybe the single most irrelevant piece of information related to your experience, field of expertise, studies and cover letter for any particular application.
So my experiment would be exactly that, after a long and unfruitful job search with DoB info in paper, I'd remove that piece of information off my CV and Cover Letters and see what happens.
The results? In person interview from my first application.
Said interview is set and I feel confident.
2 Yes its their right and they should practice it.
The real question should be: Do such practices pay of in the long run or not and do you personally like to be a part of such companies.
Relevant research has been made and papers have been published for a tl;dr I'll just mention this name: Simon Sinek
You can get the face-to-face interview with the right CV editing and successful phone interviews and code screens. But, as soon as a "cool" tech company hiring manager sees that gray hair and wrinkles in the face-to-face, they quickly throw out the typical HR approved phrases like "You aren't a good fit for our company culture".
I've seen this same treatment happen to non-white/non-Asian applicants as well as to women who were applying to coding or network administration positions.
That may be so but don't get me wrong, I'm nothing but naive, neither in a vain attempt to "grow roots" in an environment that needs something I simply don't have, neither to "trick" or "scam" my place in the workforce. I'm simply holding back on info that given the circumstances are just plain misleading and the "age" issue will be set straight right from the interview.
The positions that I'm applying for, are nothing less than perfect matches for my skill set and experience, the companies I'm applying for are the companies you'd typically consider "part of the solution" and not "part of the problem". I wouldn't apply otherwise.
So if a company decides not to have me regardless, just for a number witch I have no means of altering or influencing, that's their prerogative. All I have to do is make them listen, it wouldn't be much of a discussion otherwise.
Witch ever the case may be, I'll always have freelancing.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
Your age can usually be inferred from your job history, which is commonly listed on your CV (or résumé if you're from that particular outlier), or from your LinkedIn profile if you have one.
I don't understand why anyone would list their age (or birthday? What?) on their CV, though. What possible use could it be except to say "I am over the age where I'm allowed to drive a car on my own"?
Madness!
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1 In short: Take your age out of your CV.
As this matter affects me personally I've decided to experiment a bit.
Your birthday is a part of your personal details and as such it should be treated accordingly, so why make it available in a public document like your CV?
Besides being a security liability (among your name and permanent residency, your birthday is one of three personal details needed by a criminal to commit forgery against you), birthdays are maybe the single most irrelevant piece of information related to your experience, field of expertise, studies and cover letter for any particular application.
So my experiment would be exactly that, after a long and unfruitful job search with DoB info in paper, I'd remove that piece of information off my CV and Cover Letters and see what happens.
The results? In person interview from my first application.
Said interview is set and I feel confident.
2 Yes its their right and they should practice it.
The real question should be: Do such practices pay of in the long run or not and do you personally like to be a part of such companies.
Relevant research has been made and papers have been published for a tl;dr I'll just mention this name: Simon Sinek
You can get the face-to-face interview with the right CV editing and successful phone interviews and code screens. But, as soon as a "cool" tech company hiring manager sees that gray hair and wrinkles in the face-to-face, they quickly throw out the typical HR approved phrases like "You aren't a good fit for our company culture".
I've seen this same treatment happen to non-white/non-Asian applicants as well as to women who were applying to coding or network administration positions.
That may be so but don't get me wrong, I'm nothing but naive, neither in a vain attempt to "grow roots" in an environment that needs something I simply don't have, neither to "trick" or "scam" my place in the workforce. I'm simply holding back on info that given the circumstances are just plain misleading and the "age" issue will be set straight right from the interview.
The positions that I'm applying for, are nothing less than perfect matches for my skill set and experience, the companies I'm applying for are the companies you'd typically consider "part of the solution" and not "part of the problem". I wouldn't apply otherwise.
So if a company decides not to have me regardless, just for a number witch I have no means of altering or influencing, that's their prerogative. All I have to do is make them listen, it wouldn't be much of a discussion otherwise.
Witch ever the case may be, I'll always have freelancing.
Your age can usually be inferred from your job history, which is commonly listed on your CV (or résumé if you're from that particular outlier), or from your LinkedIn profile if you have one.
I don't understand why anyone would list their age (or birthday? What?) on their CV, though. What possible use could it be except to say "I am over the age where I'm allowed to drive a car on my own"?
Madness!