How far back can we list our work history accomplishments one agency advised leave
out my graduation dates and no more than 15 to 20 years I had great seed work in 2005 to 2008
and my 42 beats per minute pulse just went up to about 150 because this this is what makes
my skin crawl not your question Steve I love the question and I love you for being a boot camper
the other day I was talking about there is no number there is no number
okay I'm 56 I'm putting all 34 years of my work experience on my resume because
it markets me best so the the answer to your question is how far back should you go
whatever markets you best if you're telling me that 2005 to 2008 starts a 16-year run or 17-year
run of What markets you best then you do that if you tell me that in 2000 or 1998 you did something
awesome that makes sense and that if people see it you become a more attractive candidate you go
back to 1998. I don't know how many years that is it doesn't make any difference it's not 10
it's not 15 it's not 20. I don't care if you go back 40 and you can take your graduation date
off that's no problem I have no problem with that but once you start the chronology once
you start your time period once you decide I'm going to go back on my resume to 2005.
then what I want you to do is I want you to start wherever you want to start I'm going to start 1988
okay so once you do that then you run continuously meaning your chronology does not exclude any jobs
so if 2005 to 2008 was great and then you had like 2009 and then six months you crept out and
then you had another one you need to put that because the background check is going to show
it and what's going to happen is if they look at your resume and say well hang on a second you got
this job here that came up on the background check and you're not showing this on your resume then
you're gonna have to explain that now you're now you're in Liar mode like that's how they'll think
however hand let me show you another let me let me talk about another quick technique here
let's say let's say you start 2005. and you run up 16 17 years okay then between 2000
and 2004 that was a crappy job had nothing to do with whatever in 1998 you had something you loved
and it went to 2000 or whatever and then in 1990 to 1992 that was also cool so 90 to 92 96 to 98
what you do is you stop at 2005. and then you put additional experience or additional professional
experience or whatever the heck you want to call it and then you give them a summary with no dates
of the relevant experience that supports or markets you best based on where you want to go
so you could say additional professional experience held senior financial analyst
positions for prominent Banks including blah and blah to perform the leave it that's it
okay and you don't have to put the years or anything in your cherry-picked because that
was relevant okay so that works and that's cool because but once you start your chronology don't
stop stay continuous I once did a a resume review of a woman who had this loan Pro she
was in California and she wanted to get back to loan processing and she had been like a paralegal
and had done a bunch of stuff it was totally different and but early in her career she had
um like three banks that she worked for where she did this and she went back and she got some she
re-educated herself and got some certifications or whatever the heck credentials she needed and
she's like I want to break back but I'm not I'm not having any luck because her resume looked
like almost long ago she did this even though schooling was recent so I'm gonna stop all that
and change your career profile we're gonna talk about your loan stuff we're gonna change your
highlights we're gonna talk about your loan stuff we're gonna put your education below your career
profile and above your career highlights and then what we're going to do is we're gonna we're gonna
give you all big addition experience section and we're gonna we're gonna talk about all
these other things you did and we're gonna take the dates off and this and then two weeks later
she's got a chat and exactly what she wanted so career changer back to something she used to do
and had struggled for months and then got in the boot camp and went through and she's like Annie
I'm just not sure what to do can we can we have a coaching session and can we talk about my resume I
said sure it was pretty it was pretty worth it and bang bang we were done two weeks she got her job