On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 17:41 William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

IBM mainframe are DEC VAX too old. There must be some job category for
50+ men. :-)

On 2025-03-07 17:20, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> Companies using AI were insta-rejecting me.
>
> The first thing I looked at was ageism.
>
> * I pruned my resume so that AI says I'm in my sixies, and in the two
> cases I have tried since, the rejections came in one or more days
> later. The companies may not be ageist, but the black-box AI tools
> appear to have it bad.
>
> * Conversely, some folks advertise themselves as Unix greybeards. I
> was recruited twice /because/ I'm old. A former employer
> consciously looked for candidates for VP and director who were in
> their mid-fifties to low sixties.
>
> Lexis Nexis and a couple of other companies still have IBM mainframes,
> so that's a opportunity. Ditto DEC VMS.
>
> Hmmn, I should set up a search for Solaris jobs (:-))
>
> --dave
>
>
> On 3/7/25 16:04, William Park via talk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do you know any job site, for old guys with legacy skill sets? Regular
>> job, contract, full time, part time, anything is okay.
>>
>> Right now, I'm using Indeed and LinkedIn to look for job. For search,
>> Indeed returns more relevant job posts than LinkedIn. LinkedIn returns
>> too many irrelevant posts, but I nevertheless dig through them, hoping
>> for that right fit.
>>
>> Anyways, I'm finding, my expertise and skill sets are old. I don't
>> have the latest lingo in tools, programming language, GUI framework,
>> web this and that, etc. I don't pass filter (AI or human).
>
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>
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