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Subject:Re: age discrimination From:BrYan Westbrook <westbrok -at- HSNP -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 11 May 1997 16:22:20 GMT
Only coming through in waves, "Brooks, Steven (Jay)" <jsbrooks -at- ingr -dot- com> wrote
in bit.listserv.techwr-l:
>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?
Which does raise at least a couple of issues:
In highly technical fields, education seems to have a freshness date in today's
market.
Not including a graduation date could be perceived as an attempt to disguise
downtime between school and your first job.
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