Age and your job search

4. Add dates to all or select areas of your Professional Experience section. As mentioned above, you must add some dates back into your résumé. As this section appears on page two, it isn’t as potentially disqualifying as if those dates appeared on page one. You can date just the most recent and not the earliest of your experiences if that paints a better picture. Just be sure to add a subheading of “Foundational Experience” before you break format and omit earlier dates.

Take a look at the résumé I have included this week (view on www.ladybug-design.com/blog). While this résumé represents a seasoned candidate, dates are only included back to 1998 with foundational experiences bylined with key highlights and dates strategically omitted. Utilize this approach when you want to include strong early experience without the context of exactly when it occurred.

Best of luck for success.