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mikejeff
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Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 01:30 \| IP Logged

I've seen threads with 40-plus-year-old people complaining about age discrimination in starting an accounting career and posts that deem a 26-year-old starting auditor as ancient. Should late-20s people consider age an issue for big four recruiting?

Al Bundy
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Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 02:50 \| IP Logged

That's pretty depressing if that is true. I feel old enough as it is. Now I'm ancient...

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Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 06:42 \| IP Logged

Please don't take my post as authoritative or anything, Al Bundy. It's second- and third-hand at best. The only person with established credibility from whom I've heard about still relatively young ages being an issue with the Big 4 is a professor who was trying to talk me and a 30-year-old classmate into instead concentrating in internal audit.

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Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 08:09 \| IP Logged

I'm 28 and just starting at a Big 4... and I'm not the youngest in the group of new hires.

If you're a good candidate, you're a good candidate, I don't think it will affect your chances of getting hired.

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Posted: 22 Sep 2009 at 12:04 \| IP Logged

SPL81 wrote:

I'm 28 and just starting at a Big 4... and I'm not the youngest in the group of new hires.

If you're a good candidate, you're a good candidate, I don't think it will affect your chances of getting hired.

Congrats on your new job! Did you get recruited through school?

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