That’s better?

Who told you that? I’m sure it wasn’t someone at the company you were applying to. Was it a recruiter? If you don’t include dates, do you include the amount of time employeed at least?

Really? How come you have been a member of the SGI for some 26 years and you are just a background actor? How come Orlando Bloom hasn’t been in the SGI for nearly that long and he is a big actor and gets a private audience with your sensei?
Why don’t you write a letter to your sensei and ask him to hook you up with Mr Bloom? Maybe he could hire you as his private valet?

I know this is a late reply but I cannot stand your stubbornness. If you were not there then you do not know what she was told! My mother was actually told the same thing by 2 different people one being a manager of a company she applied to as a “suggestion”. So stop being “I’m right and everyone else is wrong” because you do not know everything.

I’ve gone on jobs with and without interviews and/or dates on my resume. It was all in who I had networked with. So, ultimately it is not what you know but who you know. I found that out first hand and on more than one job in public sector, private, government, entertainment etc. I’ve worked in all venues.

The resume needs to say and describe your experience and skills. Dates are not experience or skills.

Are you proficient at using Windows 95 or just Windows? The 95 doesn’t matter.

And is your college education going to go sour after thirty years? No, of course not.

The only time I’ve been asked for dates is after an initial interview has been requested or done. The HR folks need it for their system. But by that time they’ve already pretty much hired me.

It’s not who you know or what you know, but what you’ve done.

The people who know ‘the right people’ know them because they are also the right people. They work with the right people.

It’s more important that you do a good job and then the relationships will take care of themselves.

You don’t get jobs without interviews.

It does prove that but so what? Being a steady employee is not the sole criterion that employers use to employ. They also take into account age, obviously, that is the point. You’re supposed to leave off the dates as per the advice.

Nothing he said was rude so why have you got your knickers in a twist? That there is age discrimination is irrelevant to what he said- he was discrediting that a company would be explicit about it, not that it exists. Perhaps read what was written as per your own advice? And age discrimination is world wide.