atw: Re: CV and interview advice

Janice said:
> As you can imagine, in the US this would get the company sued
> faster than you can blink. Don't know what the rules are here
> but that seems really inappropriate for an HR person to say.
You could interpret this as "You come from the wrong culture and we don't hire your sort," but I doubt it was meant that way.
They could have meant, "You're old and the rest of the team is uncomfortable around old people." This probably is actionable, but hard to prove.
It could be that they meant just what they said. They like to think they have a particular culture and they believe Peter's personality wouldn't fit in with it. I think employers are allowed to do this? E.g. if they'd assembled a team of grinning enthusiastic types who were expected to hang out on blogs and mailing lists and evangelise at trade shows, and the applicant spent the entire interview whispering glumly at his shoelaces.
It's common to see a lot of waffle in job ads (you know--enthusiastic, driven, goal-oriented, well-rounded, high-achieving team-players with a great sense of humour). To this extent I guess an interviewer can look for 'cultural fit', as long as the culture isn't based around hard-drinking misogynists or similar. 

Stuart
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