The study, published in 2005 by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, found that younger women were 40 percent more likely to receive an offer of a job interview than women over 50; a woman over 50 in Boston would have to send in 27 résumés just to get one job interview, where a younger woman would have to send in only 19, the study said.
[ Nice Resume. Have you considered Botox?, from the New York Times ]
I didn’t realize even young women needed to send off 19 resumes per one interview. I’d thought the number would be somewhere closer to three. Suddenly I feel much better about my finding-a-job experiences.
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