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Hiring or promoting? OK to discount experience if it’s trumped by other factors

01/09/2013

When an employee or applicant claims she was passed over for a job because of discrimination, she generally has to show that she was clearly the best-qualified candidate for the position. Some will argue that cumulative years of experience trump other factors. That’s not always true.

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