Exxon Asking Job Applicants Their Age (U.S.)

Exxon is inquiring about the age of job applicants for positions posted in the U.S. They’re doing this by asking about the citizenship of the applicant (irrelevant to the posted requisition), then asking what year citizenship was acquired, instructing the applicant to fill in their birth date if they were born in the country where the requisition is posted, in this case the U.S.

It looks like they’re using this to pick and choose applicants based on their age, otherwise known as age discrimination.

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@1dhh Nobody benefits from ageism.

If they can discriminate against one age group, they can discriminate against any other (including yours).

Simple reason. Exxon does not want to hire the boomers that are not helping anyone. Boomers need to go. They had their chance, now step aside and let us clean up your mess. This is our time. Get rid of the boomers who created all the worlds problems.

It is a sad sack indeed who would apply to work for this company.
The questionnaire should ask: 'Do you have any serious psychological issues?'

They’ve been doing the age thing in round about ways for a long time. Don’t they ask which year you graduated high school in the online applications. You would be able to get a good approximate of someone’s age in most cases this way.

LOL you did it, caught the company doing illegal things! They've been getting away with illegal hiring practices for decades now until you stepped up to the plate. Thank you for cracking the case Sherlock Holmes.

Firstly, there are not a lot of places you can get a real job without telling your employer how old you are. Companies tend to strive for a uniform distribution of employee ages. Historically the number of employees has followed the oil bo-m and bust cycle and getting experienced hires has been one way to smooth out the bumps in the distribution.

Lol do you really think a giant corporation would do anything illegal when recruiting? Close your google tabs bud and don’t stress too much on finding the bad in everything this place does (it’s a lot but take care of yourself)

Sorry bud but it’s legal. You do realize XOM has lawyers just focused on hiring and staying compliant with anti-discrimination laws?

Older people with experience will often work for lower salaries so are better value.

Report it to the EEOC. maybe that’s allowable, maybe it’s not, but it’s worth a shot.

Funny enough - based on the conversations I’ve had around recruiting and current attrition with management we are likely to start shifting more attention to experienced hiring to fill the gaps. This (along with more experience on the resume) would probably be used to find more experienced people going forward.

Agree with OP and response. Have seen these on about 2/3 of all job postings on Indeed. Annoying and should be illegal. It’s very obvious why they’re asking. I finally landed at a company that did not ask and in
which I look around and see plenty of people my age. This is rare though. Sad that ageism seems to be left out of “DEI” in most companies.

A lot of companies do that too when they ask your date of graduation from school/college and do background checks. Unfortunately, cannot get around that.

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