I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
This can be inferred anyway, by your list of jobs going back 45 years or your most recent bullet point being about your school project, but there's no need.
What school you attended. The only way this could benefit or harm you is if it has a particular reputation or your interviewer went there too, and that can come up in conversation if you want.
I'm a fan of keeping things clear, so if you say you did a degree in Computer Science in 2004, then that's the info that's important, not whether you got a bare pass or where it was.
I don't know that I agree about leaving off school. Some employers will want to check, and may also be on the lookout for known degree-mill scams, a la "Alameda University". I'm always a little wary of claims of degree with no school mentioned, the same as I would be if someone said "senior software engineer at a major company" and refused to say which one.
But definitely omit the age, and the GPA unless it's something really noteworthy like "4.0 GPA, Dean's List 2013-2016" or what have you.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I guess I'd leave the school in if it was your first job application or if you had less than a year or two's "industry" experience. After that, I don't think it should matter, and I've definitely seen people who discounted applicants for having earned their degree somewhere they didn't like.
Oh yeah, all good points. This was the root of reason for my comment above about "Just the last ~5-10 years plus a note that you have more and can discuss if interested..."
I wasn't being hyperbolic above about resumes that are 20+ pages. After ~2-3 pages I'm not going to read any of that stuff anyway. ðĪŠ
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Your age.
This can be inferred anyway, by your list of jobs going back 45 years or your most recent bullet point being about your school project, but there's no need.
What school you attended. The only way this could benefit or harm you is if it has a particular reputation or your interviewer went there too, and that can come up in conversation if you want.
I'm a fan of keeping things clear, so if you say you did a degree in Computer Science in 2004, then that's the info that's important, not whether you got a bare pass or where it was.
I don't know that I agree about leaving off school. Some employers will want to check, and may also be on the lookout for known degree-mill scams, a la "Alameda University". I'm always a little wary of claims of degree with no school mentioned, the same as I would be if someone said "senior software engineer at a major company" and refused to say which one.
But definitely omit the age, and the GPA unless it's something really noteworthy like "4.0 GPA, Dean's List 2013-2016" or what have you.
I guess I'd leave the school in if it was your first job application or if you had less than a year or two's "industry" experience. After that, I don't think it should matter, and I've definitely seen people who discounted applicants for having earned their degree somewhere they didn't like.
Oh yeah, all good points. This was the root of reason for my comment above about "Just the last ~5-10 years plus a note that you have more and can discuss if interested..."
I wasn't being hyperbolic above about resumes that are 20+ pages. After ~2-3 pages I'm not going to read any of that stuff anyway. ðĪŠ