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I've got about 14 years of development experience and I also leave off some of my earlier experience on my resume. I do it not to conceal my age, but because th

• caymanjim 8y ago
  It does with me, but I'm less picky about traditional experience than most people. I'd prefer a list of technologies that someone knows, a list of things they want to work on, and a blurb about how they might fit in to the role I'm hiring for. The cover letter seems to have fallen out of fashion, but I find a couple paragraphs of prose far more revealing about a person's abilities than a resume. Of course it's also more work to craft one for every position you're interested in, and doesn't help much if you're looking to put yourself into a database for recruiters (e.g. LinkedIn or any other job site), where they force you to iterate your experience in chronological order and list technologies with no context. I think it's important to leave off things you're not interested in. I did Perl for years but there is no amount of money that would get me to do it again, so I minimize or eliminate its presence on my resume, and put extra emphasis on the technologies I want to work with now.
• fhbdukfrh 8y ago
  I have a business and tech background, I massage and prune experience and roles based on what type of position I'm applying for. Example my early years in sales and marketing are pretty irrelevant as a developer, my webGL experience does little to promote me as a business analyst