Career Help and Advice

I don't know how much it can combat age discrimination, but at a certain point it just helps facilitate the interview process. Technologies come and go. No one needs to know what you did with systems or tools that are no longer used.

I leave off all my internships, brief stints, and even my fresh outta college jobs. They just don't mean squat.

Generalize your earlier experience and trim it till it looks significant to fresh eyes. Focus on your latest and most relevant work and hope the interviewer has the integrity to do so as well.

Also, if you're interviewing with a younger manager, do what you can to put them at ease. A component of age discrimination is age intimidation--older workers know what they're doing and how to stick up for themselves and that can be a challenge for a green manager.