1. Resume and Profile Strategies
The speaker explains: remove your graduation date and trim older positions to keep your resume concise, while ensuring your LinkedIn profile projects a casual programmer image.
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Do This To Avoid Ageism As A Developer In Your 30s, 40s or 50s
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2. Avoiding Incompatible Startups
The speaker explains: avoid startups run by very young CEOs who may lack boundaries and disregard work-life balance.
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If you are a developer in your 30s or 40s or even 50s, looking for a new position, then remove your graduation date from your resume, or get some new training and you can use that graduation date. Even if they claim the opposite, recruiters are very discriminatory and your graduation date, it's used as a filter in probably most positions. Also avoid startups that are ran by 25 year old CEOs. Most of them are too young to run a company.
They won't respect lifetime balance, they won't respect any boundaries. Next, as I already said, always aim to look 35 in your resume, if you have a very long resume, you might want to cut some of the positions out. Your LinkedIn profile, very important. Look casual, look like a programmer, etc. Also,