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50ish here. If I'm ever looking for a new job again [hopefully never!], I'll be sure to dye my hair and drop dates from my job history.
by glonq 3y ago
50ish here. If I'm ever looking for a new job again [hopefully never!], I'll be sure to dye my hair and drop dates from my job history.
- JohnFen 3y agoI'm late 50s, and a couple of decades ago I stopped giving a complete job history for the most part. I did this because my full job history is lengthy and I don't want to have a CV that spans so many pages. Instead, I include my job history over the last 10-15 years, and include select items that are older than that if they are particularly relevant to the position I'm applying for. I don't try to hide my age -- my age/experience is a significant advantage I have over most other applicants. Age discrimination is a real thing, of course, but is very far from being a universal issue. If a company doesn't want to hire me because I'm too old, I count that as dodging the bullet of getting hired by a sketchy company.
- halJordan 3y agoLoved that episode of the office
- Mountain_Skies 3y agoUnfortunately many companies make use of their ATS mandatory when applying for a job and those systems usually require start and end dates for all but your current job. Even if ATS doesn't requirement, HR likely will when they do employment verification.
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- rufus_foreman 3y agoYou mean they're going to make me put on a resume that I bagged groceries at Food Lizard in the mid 1980's? No. No they're not.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoAt 48, I don’t think my experience at McDonald’s is relevant anymore.