Conflicted lifestyle?

aibarr
Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:44:35 +0000

…How are they going to know how old you are? It’s illegal for them to ask you during the interview process, and “looking thirty” (unlike “looking sixty,” for example) isn’t unequivocally different from “looking twenty-three”. Don’t lie on your resume, obviously, just don’t put when you graduated from high school. Is your experience pre-college relevant to your career goals? If it isn’t, don’t put that down, either. Problem solved.

On the other hand, if you’ve got experience that would benefit you in your job search and you want to put it down on your resume, then spin it as just that-- experience. The petroleum company would have the advantage of hiring someone who maybe has less engineering experience but more real-life experience. That real-life experience may make you more valuable in terms of dealing with clients, dealing with coworkers, learning things with a more mature mind and a different perspective, etc.