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

No it doesn't. It sounds like OP gave us their honest opinion on how things work in the real world. Would you prefer she/he had given a well-scrubbed corporately correct answer (let me guess:  "Age is just a number. All applicants are looked at equally, regardless of age, or font!") or that they, as they were asked to do, provided their honest assessment of the sausage-making process.[/quote]

That was my post and the recruiter's response indicates to me that the menu of jobs  for which the recruiter hires are targeted at highly mobile and younger-age skewing roles.  If you are hiring for a senior expert or executive, you'd want to know how they built their career.  I believe the advice given is specific to that recruiter's world.  And maybe not for Gen-X DCUM mid-career wonks.

My company's ATS includes 7 job blocks. There are people who go shallow so could cover 7 blocks in 14 years.  But with a 4-6 year product life cycle, in my industry, that would mean dangerously shallow experience.  Having never stuck around to a project's completion.

One thing that is consistent is that readers don't read carefully or have patience at the resume stage.  Heck, people don't even interview carefully.  So shorter is usually always better.[/quote]

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