Age - Affect chances?

Is your age on your resume? No. As long as you don't look old as shit for some reason, I'm pretty sure you'll be fine. In fact you may come off as more mature and confident, although that's up to you.

may want to color your grey hair though

its not that hard to decipher someone's age on a resume. you simply look at their graduation year and extrapolate from there.

freeks not necessarily true if you dont put HS on there you couldve taken a few years off before entering college and they wouldnt know

to answer the op, i think its more about graduation date then age...

Yea, Freeks you can hardly extrapolate as most people do not include their HS information...

For example, while at BC a few of my friends on the hockey team were 22 year old freshman because they had spent several PG years at prep schools or playing Junior hockey before college to become more competitive.

BC v. ND Saturday!

You don't even have to put the year you graduated from college on your resume. There are laws against age discrimination, so technically they can't even ask you. The only thing you need to worry about is if you look extremely old.

I know of a couple guys who started their analyst jobs when they were 30+. They got the jobs right after graduation.

More important than age is when you graduate.

it helps if you look and feel young.

people tend to associate older people with unwilling ness to adapt and learn new thinks.... especially if you boss is 26 and feels inadequate!!

there is still hope for early thirties. but it is difficual

anyway, can you take order from a person younger then you without feeling remorse?

Do none of you put your birth date on your resume? Seriously? I'd say it's pretty standard in the UK (or am I the only idiot that does this?).

"It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain." - Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)

"Ce serait bien plus beau si je pouvais le dire à quelqu'un." - Samivel

From all the resumes I have seen, it isn't the standard to put your birth date on your resume. I don't know the protocol in the UK.

In the UK it's legal to ask about age and marital status but I didn't include it on my resume anywhere and got jobs no problem.

However in the UK remember quite a lot of European graduates hired into banks having done 5-6 year degrees with 9 month internships etc. Most of the Germans and Italians in my analyst class started at 26 straight out of university. So it's pretty stupid for a bank to make a decision based on age.

The UK is weird. People with a masters degree still put their high school grades on their resume. And not just final average when they graduated, but actually individual grades they got in individual courses before their final year.

When I applied for FT positions in London I didn't include high school grades. Yet a bank actually called me at home just to ask me about my grades in high school, despite the fact that they already had my entire undergraduate record, GRE scores, and a partial postgraduate record to look at.

Glad I did well in HS, because it seems that in the UK the recruitment process starts when you are around 14 years old. Mess up in 11th grade and you've messed up for life.

yea dude, it does matter. you might wanna get some wings in your hair a la paully walnuts

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For example, if you're 40 and applying to Analyst positions, that will be problematic. I've seen older people get in, but I think it honestly gets much harder to work 100 hour weeks when you're much older and start to have a family/house etc.

I don't think being 22 vs. 26 matters much as long as you're a recent graduate.

It is significantly harder to get in if it's not your first job out of college vs. if it is... that is the only way age comes into play unless you're significantly older than the normal age for an Analyst/Associate class.

Agreed about the UK recruitment/education system. Most banks recruit using online applications, and almost all of the applications ask for all your grades since "GCSE"s. People start GCSEs in 8th and 9th grade (US equivalent). Although it's obviously not a major factor in the recruitment process, it does play it's part. Pretty strange, in my opinion.

And some companies make their first cut of applications by this stupid "points" system. You get points for grades at A level (11th and 12th grade equivalent) and University. If you don't have enough points, they don't even accept your application.

"It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain." - Francis Kilvert (1840-1879)

"Ce serait bien plus beau si je pouvais le dire à quelqu'un." - Samivel

I'm a 19-yr old sophomore with a BB internship this summer in NY. Is it a good thing that I'm 2-3 years younger than my fellow interns, or will that work against me for whatever reason?

Out of curiosity, what's the average associate's age in NY? When I finish my MBA, I would have just turned 27. Is that above or below the norm?