Ask the Headhunter: The "Dirty Little Secret" of Age Discrimination

The Job World's "Dirty Little Secret"
FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2011 file photo, applicants line up at the door to enter a job fair at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Fla. The United States added 103,000 jobs in September, an improvement over this summer and just enough to calm fears of a new recession that have hung over Wall Street and the nation for weeks. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2011 file photo, applicants line up at the door to enter a job fair at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Fla. The United States added 103,000 jobs in September, an improvement over this summer and just enough to calm fears of a new recession that have hung over Wall Street and the nation for weeks. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Nick Corcodilos is an expert on how to get a job. We ran into him while doing a story on the relative futility of Internet job boards and asked him to post his own job search secrets. It became a palpable hit, so we asked Nick if he wouldn't mind taking some questions from our readers. It turns out that in addition to giving interviews to PBS, Nick hosts a website called asktheheadhunter.com, and publishes a free weekly -- the Ask The Headhunter© Newsletter.

HR Guy: Nick, You have one the best blogs and websites devoted to job search and career development. I have spent over 25 years in HR working for Fortune 100 companies. One of the many "dirty little secrets" in larger corporations is the pervasiveness of age discrimination. Most people in corporations know it exists but won't acknowledge it publicly. Do you have any useful ideas for how the over-40 candidate can solve this?

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