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The one problem might be education on your resume. People can infer age from that generally. If you leave dates off it might also be seen that you are hiding th

The one problem might be education on your resume. People can infer age from that generally. If you leave dates off it might also be seen that you are hiding the dates because of your age.

vkou 6y ago
Have the work section chronological (And omit everything >10 years old), and the education section styled a bit differently, as a bunch of bullet points without dates. It might be a bit weird, but I doubt it'll fail the HR filters. You can even do something like call it 'Education and Skills', in which case dates don't even make any sense to include. (Nobody ever says which year they've learned C#.)
- ghaff 6y ago
  A bit weird may be ~= failing HR filters. I don't really have a strong opinion though. When I last switched jobs a number of years back a friend of mine strongly advocated for obfuscating age as much as possible. I don't even remember how much I did but it didn't really matter because I knew the person running things and a number of the other people involved in the process. So this wasn't really an HR filtering thing.
  - vkou 6y ago
    I don't work in HR, but I have a hard time imagining that any HR department has a bullet-point checklist they expect from resumes, that includes 'MUST SPECIFY EDUCATION DATES'. ('MUST SPECIFY EDUCATION' is certainly on there.) [1] And unless these things are explicitly checked for, your resume won't look that weird. [1] If they do, they should stop, because this sort of thing is great evidence for an age discrimination lawsuit, even if you don't engage in age discrimination.
    - dkdk8283 6y ago
      I don’t specify education because I never even completed high school. I get significantly less recruiter spam vs friends with an education section on their linkedin.
cableshaft 6y ago
Or do what I did, and drop out of college and go back to finish it several years later, and just put the year I graduated on there. My education makes me seem younger than I actually am for the people that judge by that.

The one problem might be education on your resume. People can infer age from that generally. If you leave dates off it might also be seen that you are hiding the dates because of your age.

vkou 6y ago

Have the work section chronological (And omit everything >10 years old), and the education section styled a bit differently, as a bunch of bullet points without dates. It might be a bit weird, but I doubt it'll fail the HR filters. You can even do something like call it 'Education and Skills', in which case dates don't even make any sense to include. (Nobody ever says which year they've learned C#.)

ghaff 6y ago
A bit weird may be ~= failing HR filters. I don't really have a strong opinion though. When I last switched jobs a number of years back a friend of mine strongly advocated for obfuscating age as much as possible. I don't even remember how much I did but it didn't really matter because I knew the person running things and a number of the other people involved in the process. So this wasn't really an HR filtering thing.
- vkou 6y ago
  I don't work in HR, but I have a hard time imagining that any HR department has a bullet-point checklist they expect from resumes, that includes 'MUST SPECIFY EDUCATION DATES'. ('MUST SPECIFY EDUCATION' is certainly on there.) [1] And unless these things are explicitly checked for, your resume won't look that weird. [1] If they do, they should stop, because this sort of thing is great evidence for an age discrimination lawsuit, even if you don't engage in age discrimination.
  - dkdk8283 6y ago
    I don’t specify education because I never even completed high school. I get significantly less recruiter spam vs friends with an education section on their linkedin.

cableshaft 6y ago

Or do what I did, and drop out of college and go back to finish it several years later, and just put the year I graduated on there. My education makes me seem younger than I actually am for the people that judge by that.