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Content: use HTML Edit Content <h1 style="text-align: center;">It's tough being over 40 in Silicon Valley</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] by Carol Hymowitz, Robert Burnson @bloomberg.com - OP's explore the state of the job market for this age group in silicon valleys tech industry and how older workers are dealing with the situation</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;</li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-valley-s-job-hungry-say-we-re-not-to-old-for-this" target="_blank">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/silicon-valley-s-job-hungry-say-we-re-not-to-old-for-this</a></li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2016-10-26</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE by smmry.com ]</h2> <p>Suddenly she was looking for a job in Silicon Valley, and she was over 50.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>In an effort to keep her twenty- and thirty-something colleagues thinking of her as an older sister rather than a mom, she goes out of her way to socialize in the break room or at company events.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>At Silicon Valley companies, the median employee is more likely to be 31, 30, 29, or younger, according to researcher PayScale.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The plaintiffs are seeking class-action status on behalf of workers 40 and older who were laid off and replaced by younger employees.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Many older tech workers are just going to greater lengths to seem younger as they try to win over potential bosses younger than their kids.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Besides the standard preinterview tricks-listing only recent jobs on r&eacute;sum&eacute;s, freshening online profile photos-job seekers are investing in retraining, creeping on potential employers, and changing their appearances in all kinds of ways, including plastic surgery.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>At ProMatch, a state-funded job counseling and networking program in Sunnyvale, Calif., Robert Withers advises his mostly middle-aged or older clients to cut anything on their r&eacute;sum&eacute;s that's more than 10 years old, to use a professional photographer for their LinkedIn headshots, and to hang out in the parking lots of places where they'll be interviewing to see what the people there wear.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>One 60-year-old software engineer, fired in January after seven years at a chipmaker in San Jose, now wears casual button-downs, khakis, and sneakers to interviews, studies embedded systems at a local extension school, and has started working out and dyeing his gray hair a dark auburn.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>"It's smart to stay current and look as young as possible if you want to keep working in an industry where so many people are in their 20s," he says.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>The bottom line: Older workers booted from Silicon Valley jobs are seeking restitution or, more often, going to great lengths to seem younger.</p> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] SRC = best-of-hn-2016-09-08, (#)comments(#)</li> </ol> <h2>[RELATED]</h2> <div><ol> <li>] # 5347 - <a href="/view/article?id=5347" target="_blank">unemployable</a> - &nbsp;[collection] by Don Sagrott, founder @sospep.com - a collection of articles on the state of the employment market for older developers. "Ageism" and other issues facing older developers in today's technology industry.</li> </ol></div> <div><hr /></div> <div>EXAMPLE - summary ( manual )</div> <p>] The median U.S. worker is 42 &nbsp;At Silicon Valley companies, the median employee is more likely to be 31 (Apple), 30 (Google, Tesla), 29 (Facebook, LinkedIn), or younger, according to researcher PayScale.&nbsp;</p> <div>] Plenty of other industries try to phase out older workers for younger, cheaper ones, but the Bay Area&rsquo;s tech companies are singularly uninterested in and even distrustful of long r&eacute;sum&eacute;s, says Michael Welch, a San Francisco employment lawyer. Mark Zuckerberg famously summed up the Valley ethos at age 22, when he told a Stanford audience, &ldquo;Younger people are just smarter.&rdquo;</div> <p>] From 2008 through last year, the Valley&rsquo;s 150 biggest tech companies faced 226 complaints of age discrimination filed with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, 28 percent more than complaints of racial bias and 9 percent more than those of gender bias.&nbsp;</p> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div>