In the light of the new legislation which came into force last October, a prospective employer is no longer allowed to demand to be given details of your age.

So should you include your date of birth in your CV?   The simple answer is that, as with all CV writing, there are no hard and fast rules, so it is entirely up to you.   By all means include it if you think it wold be helpful to either the prospective employer or your application.   There are bound to be other dates in your CV so it would probably be fairly easy to work out your age from other information supplied, but if you want to leave out reference to your date of birth, that’s perfectly OK.

For a long time now age has never been included in US style Resumes so It is inevitable that with the passage of time it will become increasingly less fashionable to include date of birth.   Eventually I am convinced that we shall follow the US market as we always do.  

Peter 

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