They Know Youre Old The Second They See Your Resume

They Know Youre Old The Second They See Your Resume They Know Youre Old The Second They See Your Resume INBOX: “Jewel, Can you take a look at my detailed resume? It’s 5 pages long and goes back to 1988, but there’s some really important experience on there.” In a word, “No!” Age discrimination is a real thing. It victimizes people every day. However, sometimes candidates victimize themselves. If you’re in corporate America, literally no one will be willing to take a look at a 5-page resume. And it’s important to avoid some other key mistakes that will also have them trashing your resume the very 1st second. Your Resume Is A Dissertation I know this is hard. I know this emotional. I know this is your professional life story. For all those reasons, it’s hard to part with information. But it has to be deleted. It simply must. 20 years is the absolute longest you can present. There is no job ad that even calls for that much experience. You have to shorten the story and deliver the highest impact 1st in order to move through the process. Here’s the way to think about this: what’s your ultimate goal? To express your details from 1990, or to get your resume read in the 1st place? In my professional opinion, your 1st and only objective is to make sure the person on the receiving end wants to open your file. They won’t open it if it’s 5 MB â€" remember: everybody’s reading everything on their phones now. You’re Presenting A Job From 30 Years Ago, Because It Shows Something “Different” About You Once you do get them to open your resume, don’t wave the red flag that you’re old. Sometimes that happens in an effort to present different facets of your experience from different times in your professional trajectory. However, sometimes efforts to show experience simply add up to “old.” For example, I recently had an attorney who today is a law firm partner, but started off as a teacher. His teaching job was 38 years ago. It’s important to adopt the recruiter’s perspective here: what is he really learning about you? It’s unlikely the person is saying to himself, “Oh, look at that, well, he has this teaching experience in his background!” It’s must more likely the recruiter is thinking, “OK, let me do some quick math here.” Your LinkedIn Profile URL Is Missing This is either because you’re not on LinkedIn (which is a HUGE mistake that’s killing your job search) or you simply didn’t present your LinkedIn profile URL. However, this is critical information that cannot be skipped. When a person receives your resume, before they pick up the phone, they look up your LinkedIn profile. If you cause any barriers to that, they’re going to move past you to the next person. You can’t claim to be tech savvy or comfortable with technology, but have a missing LinkedIn URL. Similarly, you can’t claim to be familiar with social media and have a bare bones LinkedIn profile. The millennials you’re competing with are firmly planted on LinkedIn. More importantly, the millennials making the hiring decision are searching LinkedIn to fill open positions. Making sure your resume is set up properly so you can fight ageism is step 1. Step 2 is knowing where to find the right opportunities, and step 3 centers on talking to the right people, so you don’t have to deal with your resume just getting sucked into the Internet black hole. Learn how to do this the right way so you don’t waste time. We walk you through it in our free presentation, “How To Get Hired In HALF The Time Without Getting Ghosted Because Of Age Discrimination!” And we give you the exact language to say when the millennial HR manager tells you that you’re overqualified. Click here to register now.