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I received some advice to omit the first 5-ish years positions from my resume and “reword” the line referring to my 20 years of industry experience. I'm older t
by shove 9y ago
I received some advice to omit the first 5-ish years positions from my resume and “reword” the line referring to my 20 years of industry experience. I'm older than my boss and it's definitely a bit scary. YMMV
- Myrmornis 9y agoWhat was the relationship between you and the person who gave that advice?
- shove 9y agoI was laid off and one of the severance benefits was a job placement / interview coaching service
- kvonhorn 9y agoI recently created a custom resume for a recruiter who wanted me to remove my pre-2006 experience from my resume before he would submit me for a contract. Boasting wide and deep experience in this industry is a liability for an employee, not an asset.
- shove 9y agoYep, I did some “filtering” as well
- amigoingtodie 9y agoThis is funny to me because it means 10 years of experience is the maximum any candidate should have.
- robteix 9y agoI did this recently. I removed the details of older experience and replaced them with a section “Other projects” where I quickly listed interesting and relevant things I did before but with no dates. I also removed the dates of my degrees. Coincidence or not, I started receiving more contacts from recruiters and recently got a great new job.
- humanrebar 9y agoAs someone who does a lot of resume screening and interviewing, I will say I don't really care when you got your degree, so that's fine with me. Though I can only really speak for myself.