Makes me wonder if he knows why and just isn't saying. Small town? Too far from major cities? Wages that are an insufficient draw for the type/location/work schedule?
The salary and benefits are competitive though ($65-70K/yr is what a mid-level software engineer makes), which is probably why a lot of people fire off an email.
You are comparing rural Ohio to the Arctic circle, which, if you are from Ohio makes for a funny side note.
The ad [1] also doesn't mention relocation support, so it's presumably up to the worker to self-finance a $10k or more move. And before anybody complains about the price, have you recently priced a move with a grownup life, including real furniture -- beds, couches, dressers, a lease to be broken or a house to be sold, job search expenses for the spouse, etc.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?...
It is an obvious remark to older male, unemployed, married or divorced, and hungry for work.
That said, there was at least one explicit age reference fairly early on. It put me on edge. But not a lot more was made of it in the article, and I had some sense that a fair number of the candidates invited for interviews were at least middle-aged.
"Dad" was reject because: "The last guy was 15 minutes late, full of himself, and he wants the moon. I’m not asking him back."