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<blockquote data-quote="George Maxwell" data-source="post: 101243" data-attributes="member: 17165">Hi [USER=17355]@TCinpipeline[/USER],Thank you for confirming.Just tagging [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] as I think she will have a more informed idea of what and what not to do.However, I am happy to provide my thoughts too.I am basing the following on my understanding that recruiters ask for work experience to gain information about a candidate (at the time that they are applying) and the skills that they can bring to a role. I also think that people change less over time as an adult than as young person/student.In light of this, I think for mature applicants, such as yourself, it would be appropriate to provide work experience from 5+ years ago. Students providing the equivalent would be speaking about work completed when they were early/mid teens (if not before). They are likely to have changed significantly since. This is less useful from a recruitment perspective than more recent work experience (I think) because work performed as a child or early teenager is not necessarily informative about who the person in question is now. This does not apply in the same way to work done as an adult. Obviously this is a general rule and does not apply to everyone! But, generally speaking, I think that this is the case.I hope this reasoning is clear.As I said, this might be wrong and the emphasis on providing recent work experience might be for entirely different reasons. Speaking as someone in their mid-20s, I know that I am a very different person to I was 5+ years ago (in a way that you may not be!).I hope that helps! As I said, Jessica might disagree though!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="George Maxwell, post: 101243, member: 17165"] Hi [USER=17355]@TCinpipeline[/USER], Thank you for confirming. Just tagging [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] as I think she will have a more informed idea of what and what not to do. However, I am happy to provide my thoughts too. I am basing the following on my understanding that recruiters ask for work experience to gain information about a candidate (at the time that they are applying) and the skills that they can bring to a role. I also think that people change less over time as an adult than as young person/student. In light of this, I think for mature applicants, such as yourself, it[B] [/B][I]would be[/I][B] [/B]appropriate to provide work experience from 5+ years ago. Students providing the equivalent would be speaking about work completed when they were early/mid teens (if not before). They are [I]likely[/I] to have changed significantly since. This is less useful from a recruitment perspective than more recent work experience (I think) because work performed as a child or early teenager is not necessarily informative about who the person in question is [I]now[/I]. This does not apply in the same way to work done as an adult. Obviously this is a general rule and does not apply to everyone! But, generally speaking, I think that this is the case. I hope this reasoning is clear. As I said, this might be wrong and the emphasis on providing [I]recent [/I]work experience might be for entirely different reasons. Speaking as someone in their mid-20s, I know that I am a very different person to I was 5+ years ago (in a way that you may not be!). I hope that helps! As I said, Jessica might disagree though! [/QUOTE]

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