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Is France failing its older workers?
A French government “testing” study found candidates aged 48 to 55 were three times less likely to be called back than those aged 23 to 30.
The French government has launched a campaign against what it calls “the last discrimination”: ageism.
It’s one that a lot of people in the country consider to be justified, and which makes it about three times more difficult to get a job interview. But it’s costly.
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(Picture: Job-seeker, Geraldine Coquand.)
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