| Topic Name: |
age questions |
| Message Name: |
Age Related Question |
| Date Posted: |
10/23/2001 |
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In my recent job search I was asked where I graduated from High School as part of what seemed like casual conversation. The first time this happened I didn't think anything of it but became suspicious when it became a pattern in interviews. I am over 40, having obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees within the last 10 years. I can't think of any other reason this question would be asked unless the interviewer intended to research my High School to obtain my graduation year and make an assumption about my age. |
| Message: |
If you have B.A. and M.A. degrees and an interviewer asks about your High School name or graduation year, then that person wants to know your age or is very stupid and does not know how to conduct in interview.
A while back a similar thing happened to me. I was being interviewed by a group of people sitting in a large conference room. After a while, the lead interviewer asked me for the year I graduated from College. I looked at him with a big smile on my face and turned the conversation into a joke and asked him if he were trying to find my age. Everyone in the room, including him, started laughing and that was the end of the question. I was offered the position.
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