I am a marketing communications specialist with nearly 30 years experience.

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September 21,2023 at 1:38AM UTC

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I am a marketing communications specialist with nearly 30 years experience. I have never been a manager. I was laid off in June and am struggling to get work comparable to what I had before. The people in my field tend to be much younger, and I'm worried that my age and lack of management experience is putting potential employers off on my candidacy. Thoughts?

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Joan Williams, Senior Talent Acquisition SpecialistSeptember 21,2023 at 9:35AM UTC
Are you applying for manager positions?
No one should know you have 30 years experience by looking at your resume. It's pretty standard these days that anything older than 10 or 15 years gets lopped off the resume unless you're fairly senior and the experience is absolutely critical to the position you're applying for.
Don't have graduation dates on the resume. Don't start your resume with "30 years experience in....". And please don't use Times New Roman as a font. it's the sweatpants of fonts.

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