A Tale of Two Resumes

About This Episode

After months of rejections, a 58-year-old man decides to test the system. He submits two nearly identical job applications to the same company—one with his real work history and graduation year, the other carefully scrubbed of any age clues. One gets an immediate rejection. The other gets a callback. What starts as a quiet experiment to beat the algorithm quickly turns into something much darker once he lands a job inside the company. There, he discovers how the hiring software actually works—and who it’s designed to keep out. A tense, true-story-style account of one man’s collision with AI-powered age discrimination in today’s job market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices