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Bad news, older tech workers: Job advert language works against you

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Re: Anon CVs

> How does that work with listing previous experience and education?

The (work, not academic) CV is just a tool to make first contact. For me, the ideal CV is one with a couple of sentences explaining roughly what you can do for us and showing that you understand both our needs and your capabilities.

Though I can't stop people from sticking to their old habits and many do, personally I don't expect to see dates listed along with your academic achievements¹ and we ask people to indicate their level of experience in general terms with anything over six years being "experienced".

¹ Some people take it a bit too literally and at least one guy omitted any mention of his academic qualifications altogether… including his PhD.

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