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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an early 50s employee, one level down from VP at my Fortune 500. I’ve had 4-5 roles in my 20 years at this company, progressing steadily every 2-3 years.

I also had roles at 2-3 other well known, Fortune 500 companies, but that was 20+ years ago.

If I limit my resume to only 10-15 years, I look much more limited in terms of my work experience.

What do you recommend for someone like me who looks like a dinosaur for staying at a company for so long? I feel like I’m one layoff away from a long stint of unemployment. [/quote]

Your progression every 3 years probably looks amazing. The title changes are really good and I’m guessing you’ve had different bosses also. So the question of ‘why did this person stay at xyz so long’ is answered: bc there were varied opportunities inside the company and they picked her/him for them. (Ie S/he was talented enough to be promoted - many times).

For your resume, I would have a section Previous Roles or Other Experience. Simply List the 
Title, Company, Years
Title, Company, Years
Title, Company, Years
(follow the format you used in the earlier section) 
I don’t need more job tasks, duties, outcomes explained in these. I will know what those jobs are by title. In this section I want to see that you did work elsewhere - that you have seen other work cultures. So keep it Brief and decide when to truncate it.

Somewhere above I noted that 50 is old in some F500 so if you are sensing it it is probably true. This is advice you didn’t ask but I will give it anyway. You are unlikely to land a VP job at a F500. There are already VP level candidates in our application funnel. A Director or Sr Director role yes, you’d be an easy pick. But also look at smaller companies with say 1-5k employees. They WANT your expertise and there are many with your profile in them in the executive levels. You have to be willing to work in the chaos as opposed to a well oiled machine though so it is a culture change for sure. 
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PP.  So basically age discrimination. Brutal truth.  If you aren't at X-level in your F500 career, you're not going to level up at another.  The big corporations accept the value judgments placed on you by the talent-grinding-up machine at the place you came from.

I am watching some humorous things happen at my big company.  They laid off an already pension-eligible well-known professional with 39 years of service.  And his complaint about their inhumanity went viral at a national level.  1 year later, his carefully-developed skills are available to companies that never could have afforded to develop them internally.   I'm also watching our cross-town rival keep hiring the major players from real VP (CEO direct report) on down that my company keeps voting off the island.  Let's just say that now they know which of the company's moves were luck, crazy, or crazy like a fox.  This was a lifetime loyalty kind of industry but management decided that had no value.  We will see how the FAFO'ing ends up.[/quote]

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