Job seekers are using ‘résumé Botox’ to seem younger. They say it helped them land interviews

Where cosmetic Botox softens wrinkles, so-called “résumé Botox” does the same for job seekers’ applications, making them appear younger to prospective employers. That might mean removing or editing graduation years, early jobs, senior titles, and profile photos, all in the service of obscuring an applicant’s real age. The practice is more common than you might think. A new survey suggests that nearly half of job seekers are manipulating their résumés to seem younger—and many of them are using...