carmenbr

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by carmenbr 7y ago
Sorry to hear that but think that’s more a problem of commitment instead of age
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by carmenbr 7y ago
Many thanks for the support and hope we can help her to find a new position
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by carmenbr 7y ago
The point here is that the senior professionals don’t have the option to choose as employers are not recruiting more senior professionals, not just because of their salary expectations. They are not even attracting them to their open roles.
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by carmenbr 7y ago
That’s exactly the point, apart from what you have chosen (keep coding and work in tech), you don’t have the option to choose as the companies have been recruiting only youngest professionals and all environment is focused on the youngest
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by carmenbr 7y ago
The point here is the kind of benefits and how companies are advertising their roles more focused on the youngest professionals and forgetting the more experienced ones. ie pets and cool offices with video-games. That’s definitely not attra
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by carmenbr 7y ago
I'd say we are having a pretty good response. The website itself will not sort the ageism out. Companies first need to realise how important is to have a diversity staff not only because they are being forced to diversify but, as McKin
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by carmenbr 7y ago
At the moment, what we ask is just 4 things and then, we ask the company 4 or 5 different open opportunities to include on the website. We then include those by hand, linking to the original company's job post. Agreed this is annoying
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by carmenbr 7y ago
Yes, that's an idea the could be explored. Some countries age discrimination is not even considered a crime. The problem detected is: in tech, the age discrimination starts earlier than 40, but at 36. What companies need to realise is
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by carmenbr 7y ago
Hi all Carmen here. A bit of my story below: my husband (leonagano) had faced ageism in his job hunting journey, especially because the tech environment sometimes attracts young people and the more experienced professionals are being left b
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by carmenbr 7y ago
Hi, I included "diversity link" where companies explicitly publish some articles about how D&I plays its part within the company
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by carmenbr 7y ago
fixed, sorry...we had some problems with the hosting
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by carmenbr 7y ago
We're fixing the glitch