Subj : Age visible on resume? (was: Resume questions, how convey? ...)
To   : comp.lang.lisp,comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer
From : rem642b
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 08:58 pm

> From: g...@best.cut.here.com
> I have heard varying opinions on whether one should put something on
> their resume that indicates their age, such as the year they graduated
> from college.

I've decided to go with this advice:
  http://www.quintcareers.com/resume_mistakes.html
  don't provide the date of your college graduation if it was more than
  about 10 years ago.

> In some interviews I've had, questions were asked about things I'd
> done in the 1980s that were pertinent to the work the company was
> currently doing.  In other interviews, no one cared about anything
> that I'd done prior to the early 1990s.  I think it behooves someone
> to put things on their resume that are pertinent to the work the
> company is doing, even if the work was done more than five or so
> years ago.

There are two different issues here: Writing a single general resume to
post on a Web site, where you don't know who might look at it, and
writing a custom resume for just one individual job. Your advice
applies only to the latter, whereas the former is the topic we're
discussing here.

Here's a quote from a resume-advice Web site:
  The rule of thumb for someone at the senior level is to list about 15
  years worth of jobs.
I'm not sure how to apply that in my case.

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