[AdAge] Aging in Adland: The Gray-Hair Phobia That’s Hindering Older Execs

[56 year old] Mr. Shea has built websites and filled them with content. He has created online games. He has devised TV, print and radio ads working for agencies big and small — and won awards along the way. Witty, quick and pleasantly self-deprecating, he carries a conversation.

Yet time and again during his job search he received polite rejection letters explaining that his background, while estimable, simply didn’t fit the profile of someone who is, as more than one recruiter put it, “cutting-edge.”

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(Source: adage.com)