I have a question about those who have been in their field for 10+ years and have been looking for full-time opportunities. Are you having luck finding a role with a resume that shows you've been at this for a while now? Or have you been omitting years on your resume?

Currently, my resume reads that I've been freelancing for 15 years but a lot of that time I freelanced alongside having a full-time gig. I can't figure out if it's just my location, fighting ATS, or seen as "too experienced."

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I have been in the business for longer, and I don’t omit experiences based on dates. I do edit my résumé based on relevance. If I see that an experience in my resume is not relevant to determine place I’m trying to apply, then I’ll omit it. But I am 54 years old and I cannot hide my age anymore.

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It's less about wanting to hide my age, at least not past the resume stage. I want to be more on the operations side so I know experience is key but it feels like people with lesser experience get the interviews.

Which I guess you could argue has always been the case. *sighs*

Nope. Got laid off in summer 2023 from my copywriting job. Since then, I’ve submitted 2000+ resumes and have gotten zero full-time offers.

But in creative marketing, having 10+ years of experience screams “I’M OLD” from the mountaintops of one of the most ageist industries in existence.

But full-time creative jobs are going the way of the dodo bird anyway thanks to AI and offshoring. Why pay an SEO writer 100K a year when somebody in India or Nigeria will do it on a freelance basis for $10 a day?

That aside, I’ve been told in countless interviews, “you have a strong portfolio and would be a great fit here,” only to get the “after careful consideration” email 24 hours later. So it’s one of two things:

1 - The hiring manager/team is lying through their teeth about liking my work

Or

2 - They see my face in a video interview and notice I don’t have pink hair or high-waisted baggy jeans, and are instantly repulsed by my gray hair and overall “non-woke” appearance.

It has to be one of those two things. What else could it be?

Either way, I’m about to quit the creative racket because of it.

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What does a non-woke person look like?

Do you have an MBA?

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