23: Why You Shouldn't Drop Dates and Experience from Your LinkedIn Profile and Resume

Career Narratives with Doug Lester

If you're in your 40s or 50s, have you ever been advised to drop the dates from your education entries and remove a few of the earlier roles from your LinkedIn profile and resume? Trying to soft-pedal or hide your age and level of experience can actually work against you getting the aspirational senior roles that might be the best fit at this point in your career. Host Doug Lester shares his experience as a coach to MBA alumni and a former executive recruiter to make the case.

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Chapters

1. 23: Why You Shouldn't Drop Dates and Experience from Your LinkedIn Profile and Resume (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:01:41)

3. The challenge of ageism in recruiting (00:02:12)

4. Does removing dates and job entries work? (00:02:43)

5. A case study (00:03:58)

6. The importance of a strong network (00:05:06)

7. The value of experience and perspective (00:05:44)

8. The importance of openness and trust (00:06:11)

9. Setting yourself up for disappointment or failure (00:06:44)

10. Don't make yourself an exception (00:07:38)

11. Work with people who value your experience and perspective (00:08:16)

12. A personal perspective based on experience (00:09:00)

13. Case study revisited (00:09:20)

14. Accept that some opportunities won't be a good fit (00:10:41)

15. Own your experience and perspective (00:11:13)

16. Conclusion (00:11:44)