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Mathew PaquetTrust & Risk · Checklist

The Hidden Age Filter Checklist

Find the age filters nobody typed in your hiring software: the four settings, the twin-resume test, the four-fifths smoke alarm and the human review rule.

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The four places an age filter hidesKnockout questions, filters, date windows and the ad, and why a setting is not one person's bias.
List every setting that rejects without a personA one-page inventory, plus the floor-versus-ceiling rule for experience.
Read your job ad as if you were 55The age-coded words to cut, and the one question to ask a chatbot instead.
The twin test and the four-fifths smoke alarmTwo identical resumes, one test posting, and a worked example of the four-fifths rule.
A person at the exit, and a log of what you changedThe weekly human check, the two vendor questions and what the law covers.

Quick win you can do today. This afternoon, list every setting in your hiring software that can reject someone without a person reading the application.

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