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alanfranz on June 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Job applicants over 40 filtered out by employers

There's ONE thing that really amazes me. A lot of people around the world - not just in Europe or in US - keep speaking about talent crunch, STEM shortage, etc, as an emergency... so, if this research is not flawed, the real issue is that such talent is just ignored at 40?

gedy on June 26, 2017 | [–]

They only say that to loosen immigration for cheap, visa-dependent developers.

brooklyn_ashey on June 26, 2017 | | [–]

Thank you for saying that. The Elephant was just sitting on everyone's face.

pvaldes on June 26, 2017 | [–]

Can be also sooner. In some countries researchers are ignored at $Ph_degree_year + 3 years in fact, for random reasons.

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