I recently received a couple of questions about the most appropriate resume format, and whether a friend's comment is true that all experience older than 10 years should be left off the resume. Here is my response:
1) You need to put your resume in "reverse chronological order", meaning most recent experience first, because that is what hiring mangers are used to seeing. Try something different and they will either a) not take the time to figure out your format (given the
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Work experience too “dated” for your resume? It depends.
January 16, 2011 by Robert Hellmann • Resume, LinkedIn, self-promo
I recently received a couple of questions about the most appropriate resume format, and whether a friend's comment is true that all experience older than 10 years should be left off the resume. Here is my response:
1) You need to put your resume in "reverse chronological order", meaning most recent experience first, because that is what hiring mangers are used to seeing. Try something different and they will either a) not take the time to figure out your format (given the