Is there any way I can make myself seem younger on my resume? I'm in my 40s and starting to think my age is keeping me from getting interviews.

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I know a lot of people are removing dates from their résumé. Like dates of graduation. You can also remove some of the oldest job experiences from your résumé.

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Leave off your first job or two. It's likely irrelevant to what you do today anyway.

Never have graduation dates.

I do have on my resume that I'm a distance runner/ultramarathoner. People tend to think that at least I have some energy despite my advanced age (I'm 66, and when I was 65 I completed a 50K race). That may or may not be frowned on as ableist.

Most important, make sure your resume focuses on your *accomplishments,* not your tasks. I see far too many resumes that are nothing more than a copy-and-paste of job descriptions with no indication of how *good* you were at those tasks and what the positive outcomes were.

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