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Once you have been unemployed for a year or more, it is widely said that employers won't even consider hiring you.  Work Source tells you to have no "employment gaps" in your resume.  What is an unemployed job seeker supposed to do??

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Age discrimination is rampant and widely acknowledged.   Most 99ers are over age 50.  Helping the long-term unemployed is to lobby for and pass a stronger, national age discrimination law.

Please ask your guests to comment on age discrimination.  
At Work Source Centers we are advised to conceal our age on our resumes. 

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Good discussion topic:  What are the impacts of the digital/internet transformation on the long-term unemployed seeking a job? 

One impact I suspect is that employers are able to cast their net across state borders, and they don't have to hire a candidate who doesn't perfectly meet all qualifications.

Also, the method of applying for work has changed.  Employers do not welcome the traditional drop-ins, where you make face-to-face introduction and leave your resume.  Now, employers want you to use fax or email.  Then you wait, and usually receive the sound of silence.  This is very impersonal and more demoralizing than earlier times.

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