Are you experienced?
As if being laid off isn’t humiliating enough, there’s a new wrinkle that I have never encountered before.
Apparently, experience can be a millstone around your neck. Who knew?
Here’s how I came by this knowledge -- I saw an article about looking for work after age 50.
Since this is my first time doing that, I read it. And here’s what it said:
- It’s going to be much, much harder than you realize.
- It’s going to take much longer than you realize (50+ weeks compared to 28 weeks for those under 50)
- Recruiters may consider you overqualified.
- In order to get noticed, you need to eradicate any reference to your age from your resume. No dates attending college, no dates on past experience, no one cares what you did more than 10 years ago, so don’t put it on your resume unless it’s directly relevant to the position for which you’re applying.
Woah.
Is this for real?
