Dear J.T. & Dale: Must you include every career job you’ve ever had on your resume? I have been doing so, with dates of employment listed. I am wondering if this could be hindering the callbacks I get based on the fact that I have been in the work world for more than 20 years. – Dan

J.T.: As a career coach, I prefer to see every job (with dates) on my client’s resumes. As a former human-resources executive, I would get frustrated when we brought a person in and found out their resume didn’t accurately reflect their work history.

Dale: But there’s a difference between accurately reflecting their work history and administering visual anesthesia. I’d say to list your recent positions, the past five or 10 years, then give a summary of “Additional Experience.”

I think we all need to accept and embrace our history, it’s how we grow professionally. So here’s another option: Put an “Experience Summary” at the top of the resume. This is a section where you list all the transferable skill sets you’ve developed and the number of years experience in each. For example, you can list something like, “10+ years Managing Employees, 20+ years Sales” and so on, putting them centered at the top of the page, just below your name. It will serve to validate all of the jobs listed below.