The United States has laws against age discrimination. However, we know it exists. Job applications often require graduation dates. It's easy to calculate approximately how old a person is from those dates. My question is how can we within the first few lines of a resume/cover letter or the first 30 seconds of an interview, how to convince the hiring manager an older adult is worthy of consideration? Ageism isn't just in the USA. Below is a United Nations article on this issue https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/09/pandemic-exposes-ageism-and-age-discrimination-society-says-un-expert