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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like age discrimination and devaluation of experience for you to disregard any work experience from more than 15 years ago.

I am not currently looking.  But I have been caught up in corporate layoffs before.

I also recently got a new job in my company where the resume pool was about 200, the top 20 were reviewed, 3 internals and 1 external were interviewed.  And I came in 2nd.  I didn't get that job but another opening came up within a month and they tapped me.  I felt bad for the external person because they were up against dozens of internals with relevant experience.

Inside my F500, with thousands of employees, every week-long posting tends to get 100s of internal applicants unless it's hyper-specific.  And that's been true since at least the 2010s.[/quote]

You don’t have interpret my advice literally. If you have relevant experience to the posted role from 20 years ago go for it and add it back in. MOST candidates though do NOT have relevant experience from 20 years ago. They were in retail or a call center or event planning and that has nothing to do with their now Senior Director of Global Infrastructure and Technology title that they hold today.  And when I see their golf course assistant manager stuff from 1999 it actually DETRACTS from the story that they are trying to say which is that they are a masterful VP of Digital Media. Your resume is you communicating a story, your brand, so control the narrative. Everything and the kitchen sink is not an effective story. 
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