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Certainly, I defer to your expertise in Human Resources. I'm sure you've hired thousands while disqualifying thousands over the years. My experiences are, of course, based on my own personal ones: As someone that started their work career as of age 11 to present, and as an entrepreneur/manager and having hired approximately one hundred fifty persons over my career in "small" to medium sized businesses. And trust me, I'm not the type to ruminate over or long for "the good old days". There's enough wrong to go around then and now. And it's not like we've really advanced dramatically simply because the internet makes us more organized either. When I would go apply for a job as a young person (whether teen or older) I wouldn't always get a call back after submitting an application, but if I wanted the job bad enough I would be in the business daily talking with the "gate keepers" to have an opportunity to interview with the decision maker/s. And I was usually always successful in getting that interview, even if I wasn't "fully qualified". Not saying that I always got the job of course, but it was a little easier then to get past the front lines. If you were to do that now you just might get the police called on you or at the very least escorted out by security if you even made it past them in the first place. And now with the internet, it's become just another wall to confront before you get to stage 2, 3 or whatever the jargon is, in your pursuit of the job. Again, not saying you operate this way, but it can easily become a barrier to the job seeking individual and be abused by the person/s in charge of hiring. I can say proudly, over my career owning businesses, that anyone that wanted an interview, I'd at the very least call back, and interview by phone if not in person. And if they weren't qualified I'd advise the prospective job seeker as to what steps to take to qualify. Now though, if I were currently in some of my past management jobs run by "large" corporations, the job seeker might just get held up in a queue somewhere until their frustration and urgency causes them to seek a position elsewhere.

 

This was just bad wording on my part. If your career is less than 7 years old, you'll typically put the whole thing down. If it's 7 or more, you put down the last 7.

Obviously, it's an imperfect thing. If you've been at your current job for 7 years you might still need or want to reference the one before it as well. If you've been at your current employer for 30 years, you don't cut off the last 23 years.

I pretty regularly receive resumes that exceed 5 pages and go back into the 80's, however.

To my own awkward wording, however, I'd also say that if you're career is less than 7 years you'll do well to fill up that page with meaningful and relevant things (even if not jobs) to make it look like this isn't your first job out of the gate (even if it is).

 

In our days the change is constant.
So in 7 years, a lot can happen. If I look at my job, my team moved from one organization to another within the enterprise.
There were a number of reorganizations and consolidation and role modifications.
Interesting projects etc. Last shift a few years back was as if I got a new job.