«Remove graduation or school dates, since some employment algorithms will screen out
employees over a certain age — and they can do that by looking at graduation dates,» says Weinstock.
Survey Methodology This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 252 human resources professionals (employed full - time as a human resources representative; not self - employed; with at least significant involvement in hiring decisions; non government); and 8,038 U.S.
employees (employed full - time; not self - employed; non government)
ages 18 and
over between November 12 and December 1, 2008 (percentages for some questions are based on a subset U.S. employers or
employees, based on their responses to
certain questions).