I just discovered a recent form of age discrimination

[dickthegrouch]

I was recently laid off at 67yo.
Several companies I've tried to apply to require my education history, including dates. It's utterly irrelevant to my life 46 years later, and can't be validated because it's too old for the institutions to want to keep the records. (Yes, I've asked).
Worse, these employers want transcripts of every class I've taken since.
Only people under about 25yo have bothered to keep all that rubbish.

They only ask for 10 years of employment history. Why try to go back so far, and with such precision, on education?

AGE DISCRIMINATION is the only possible answer.

[Voltaire2]

1. Yup. It's any easy way to filter you out

and difficult to prove.

[Wicked Blue]

2. Can you get some legal advice on this?

Your county Bar Association likely offers 45-minute consultations with a lawyer for a nominal fee. It sounds to me as though you have cause to complain about this.

[drmeow]

3. If you ask me the year

I graduated from either high school or college, I immediately know you are trying to circumvent the laws against asking someone their age. I fortunately have the luxury of choosing not to apply (let alone accept a job if I did apply and it was offered) but too many others don't.

[grumpyduck]

4. I've been noticing this crap for years.

Right, asking for graduation dates is a tip-off to your age, give or take a couple of years.

Sometimes I have to wonder what these HR people are taught, or think. It's a mystery to me.

[KatyaR]

5. I'm 67 also.

Several years ago I had an interview at a national company who has headquarters here. It was not in a field I had worked in before, but I desperately needed a job and I had gotten through two job fair interviews, so I was going for it. I was probably about 62-ish.

Sat down in a tiny interview room with a 20-something, and the first thing he said was, "Tell me what you did after you graduated high school."

I knew right then and there that the local rumors about the company not hiring anyone under 35 was true. Their recruiting videos were full of pretty, happy young people working, playing on company sports teams, etc. The only people not in their 30s were the C suite, and they are probably 40-55-ish..

Needless to say, I didn't get the job.

[a kennedy]

6. You'd think they'd want to hire someone who is responsible, has that work ethic that

we’re known for. Not like the younger ones that seem to not really give a shit if they have a job or not. JMHO

[Voltaire2]

7. Sure but also they don't want to 'invest' in your training

as an older person will likely stop working sooner than whatever their actuarial payout data thinks they need. Which is why there has to be a law, but labor laws are mostly unenforceable, because corruption helped write them and/or the agencies that do enforcement are deliberately underfunded.