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I just finished school for my undergrad and I am looking for work. What's making it a bit weird for me is that I'm 32 years old. I worked as a customer service rep at an insurance company for about 5 years, moved to CT, worked as a paralegal for 3 years. Then I started going to school while working part time as a paralegal for a couple years before going to school full time for 2 years to finish my degree. I am currently applying to paralegal positions in NYC. My qualifications as a paralegal are pretty good, and I have lots of things to work with there. My work at the financial company is not particularly relevant to paralegal positions. Also, I feel that it ages me. It makes it more obvious that I'm in my early 30s. I already have a middle-eastern name, and I don't need anything else working against me. My main fear is that I'm going to date myself by putting in work experience from 2001-2005. I would rather look about 5 years younger based on my resume by avoiding listing the experience. Also, there is a gap in employment from August 2005 to February 2007 as I worked various small or temp jobs and was changing states. Should I just avoid mentioning my work at the insurance company and just have my education and paralegal experience listed? I feel I should, but my wife disagrees with me. Edit: Is there a major downside to not mentioning prior experience? Would an employer think you are dishonest if the job shows up on a background check? walruscat fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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I got a connection request (which I accepted) from a recruiter who works for a firm I really want to work for and who has previously posted jobs similar to what I'm interested in, but he has not sent me a message. Would it be improper to message him and tell him I would be very interested in applying for any suitable openings he has? Just to be clear he requested a connection early yesterday.
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