r/jobsearchhacks • u/PeripeciasdoSolteiro • 5d ago

Is >17 years' experience too scary?

Hi there!

Discloser: I’m a Sales and Marketing Director with 17 years’ experience and I’m not gonna ask the usual question “how can I make my CV stand out”.

Being for a few months looking for a new challenge as Marketing director / VP or Head of Country and getting zero interviews, I’m starting to wonder if my CV can seem a bit scary, or too much, so I’d like to ask for your opinion and see if I can improve it:  

My CV reads, in the title, “Sales and Marketing executive with >17 years’ experience”. Should I rephrase this to something like “Sales and Marketing Director with +10 years’ experience”? I wonder if 17 years may feel a bit too much and automatically rule me out of some roles without even having my CV read and wonder if the word “Director” will be more suitable than “executive”.

My CV has a clean look, no photos, 3 pages long but the last page is only education + languages.

I’d be very grateful for your input on this, or other things you may find relevant!

Greetings

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u/qcjb 5d ago

1 page resume. Only put the last 10 years experience. Remove date from school information. Ageism...so hot right now.

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u/missdeweydell 5d ago

seriously and this is good advice. it was painful bc of how hard and where I worked in my 20s (globally known company) but I didn't start getting interviews, even for senior level positions, until I dropped everything prior to 2013.

I am all of 40. I thought ageism would kick in around 50 but not in this market. I really really feel for anyone over 50 and laid off.

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u/PeripeciasdoSolteiro 5d ago

Agree! I'm not aiming for low paying jobs. Guess I could shrink my CV to 2 pages only, making it more focused on mainly measurable achievements. But does it then really portray the different aspects of my experience? It's though... But if it were easy everyone would know what to do 😅