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How to Handle Career Gap Age Bias When Re-Entering the Workforce
In this episode of The Comeback Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna tackle a sensitive but critical challenge for career-gap returners: age discrimination layered on top of employment gaps. They unpack a 2024 Federal Reserve Board working paper that found callback rates for older women with a two-year gap dropped to roughly that of a sixty-two-year-old applicant no gap. The hosts discuss why a four-year gap can effectively age you a decade in an employer's eyes and what that means for your job search strategy. They explore practical countermoves including how five-year contract roles on a…
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