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RE: Job market and potential age discrimination?

Subject: RE: Job market and potential age discrimination?
From: Martha J Davidson <editrix -at- nemasys -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:57:01 -0700


At 10:30 AM 9/26/2002 -0700, Gilger.John wrote:

I have faced obvious age discrimination in past job searches and dropped the first 20 years off my resume.

Though I am not actively looking right now, I have chosen in the past to
leave all 20+ years of experience on my resume, because in my earliest jobs
I was a software engineer. This experience has helped me emphasize to
interviewers that I understand software and can address the audience of
developer tools in terms they understand.

I am trying to draft a good functional resume that emphasizes what I can DO rather than what I have done ;)

After a layoff in 1999, I restructured my resume so that the first page is
a summary of my accomplishments, in functional resume style, followed
by a chronological listing of experience. By using FrameMaker conditional
text, I have created a single-source resume that can be either two or
three pages long (with varying degrees of detail in the Experience section).
So far, this format has worked for me. I haven't encountered any age
discrimination that I've been aware of...

martha
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