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In many cases you can just go back 10 years.
Unless the sun rises in the West, I say go back a maximum of 25 years.

You always want to say you have "20 plus" years of experience.

Don't put an education graduation year down unless you graduated at age 50 in which case put the year down just to drive HR crazy guessing your age.

To many employers age is a benefit and not a handicap. Unless and till dementia sets in a person’s wisdom, knowledge, vocabulary size, and mental ability continues to increase with no known termination (till a few years ago we thought it started to decline slowly at age 70). An 80 something truly has more in the "gray matter" area than does a 20 something. At one time the IQ scale was 18 and over. I have seen an IQ scale that required better performance for those over age 55. The test performance that gives a 25 year old an IQ score of 115 will only give a 60 year old an IQ of, maybe, 112.

Your vision, reaction time and ability to play NFL football is less than for the 20 something.

Children born in 2008 are expected to have a work career life till age 100 and 15 different jobs/careers. . The career life of children born in 2008 is expected to be till age 100. If they graduate from college at age 24 they have 16 years to work before they are part of the protected majority and 60 more years working after they became a protected majority.

Be sure to thank your grandchildren and those just entering the job market for being so willing to contribute to a Ponzi Scheme so you can collect Social Security while the Ponzi Scheme will fall apart on them leaving them with a bone dry well.
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I'd like some input on this. My resume ends with my earliest job experience which was 12 years at IBM as an SE. The problem is that since the dates on that are 1969 - 1981, a potential employer can easily calculate my age range and decide, sight unseen, that I'm too old. (I'm wiser and more intellectually energetic now than I was at 40, by the way.)
Do we think that maybe I should start my resume job history in, say, 1981 (making me appear to be a lad of 40+) and forget about all that good experience at Big Blue (at least until I get the prospective job)?
Thanks.
AJ Marino


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