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Stating your age on a CV

brian ireland · 2014-09-26 23:22:22

I have been interviewing for staff for the last 4 days. Lots of the CVs had no age on them, maybe the law says you don’t need to put this on your CV, Trust me its a bad move not to put your DOB on your CV. We can’t hire anyone under 18 and that’s it. We had more than 200 CVs with no age on them so they went in the waste…

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#62 03-10-2014 11:13AM

RainyDay

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Shelflife wrote: »

If the job involves something like selling alcohol then the law requires them to be over 18. Now while its possible to work out roughly what some ones age is by looking at their education details, its quiet possible that someone can do their leaving cert and still be only 16 or 17 but could easily be 18 or 19 as well.

So you ask them on an application form 'are you over 18'. Or you tell them to write a cover letter that confirms they are over 18.

And when you offer the job, you ask for id that confirms their age.

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