Should I keep old roles on my resume?
Dropping older roles lets you highlight continuous recent experience and keeps the resume simple if you haven't written one in a while. However, it leaves a large gap, making it hard to decide whether to just stick to recent work or add older jobs back in.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Keeping the formatting simple
- 2Removing the professional summary to save space
- 3Using a skills section to fill the page
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/Accounting2 people · September 2026 – October 2026