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How many years of experience do you keep on your resume? I've been keeping 20, but it seems the bay area startups can smell that I'm old. (I've not met age di

• vonmoltke 12y ago
  Interesting idea. I had never considered "aging off" experience. It might be doubly useful in my case, because my first and oldest job was almost pure EE.
  • hga 12y ago
    Indeed. Your resume is just a tool to get your foot in the door, to get that first conversation with a hiring manager or an interview. Extraneous things, like irrelevant experience, get in the way of that. Note this will depend on such things as having enough experience to show you're a generically good employee. If you were a new graduate I'd look favorably on e.g. in high school starting out at entry level in a fast food restaurant and working your way up to, say, shift manager (if you could make it that far, very favorably).
• hga 12y ago
  Roughly a dozen years, under the heading "Recent Relevant Experience". But I went more by the oldest jobs that looked really good on my resume, like being the VP of tech or being directly or indirectly responsible for most of my company's revenue, and including figures. Even better than developing software that you claim works is having people buying it and proving it works.
  • danielweber 12y ago
    My first post-college job I created a piece of security software and I still run into people that say "you wrote that? We use that!" But I've also noticed the people who love talking with me about that are not hiring me. It seems they bring me in to reminisce about the old days, and then go hire someone else. As nice as it feels for my ego, I might drop it.