15 Years or Less - Anything Older is Usually Outdated and Irrelevant to Your Current Career Path

When you’re applying for a senior level job, it may seem tempting to list all your career achievements. However, restrain the impulse to “tell all” and confine your resume to what’s been going on in your professional life for the last fifteen years, max.

The reason for this is that, as Bobby Dylan sang lo these many years ago, the “times they are a changin’”. In fact, they’ve changed so dramatically over the past few years, that including your experience beyond that point in history is undoubtedly going to be irrelevant to your current career path.

Where were you fifteen years ago? Twenty years ago? What were you doing? When you answer these questions, how much of your answers do you think would apply to the job for which you are applying?

Probably not very much. So, keep your resume listing to fifteen years or less and you’ll stand a much better chance of having your resume be on target for the job you want!

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