How do you de-age a CV?

[DesparatePragmatist]

Ever since the ageism at work thread (linked below) I've been mulling this over. 50s, senior, and wanting to move into a new role - and conscious that many competitors will be 15-20 years younger. In all previous applications I've featured my years of experience as a positive, but now I'm wondering if this is playing against me. The suggestion on the ageism thread was to make it less obvious that you might be decades older than other applicants. So, wise Mumsnetters, how do you de-age a CV? Just stripping dates off my qualifications and career history looks odd and raises questions, surely?

Ageism thread here for ref:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/work/5131924-back-to-workageism-is-it-the-last-acceptable-form-of-discrimination

Strip off dates for education and start your work exp history from later

I wouldn't take dates off the work history, it would look like maybe you were hiding a lot of short lived roles.

I'd be more likely to consider removing older parts of my CV - if you're in your fifties, is it necessary to put roles from your twenties on there? Are they adding anything that isn't also demonstrated by more recent roles?
Then just remove education dates, I've never put dates on my degree I don't think.

I only have the last 6 or 7 years of work experience with dates. I've then just listed a few former roles that are relevant in a "also previously done following" type section.
My degree doesn't have a date.

Realistically a future employer is only going to be interested in last few years' experience.

I'm 41 and haven't included dates on my CV for a long time. Not because of ageism but it looks better. I only include the last 8 years career history which covers my current and two previous roles. That's enough to showcase my skills and experience.

This is very helpful, thank you.

Each of my roles builds on the previous, so leaving one out might weaken the whole - but I could separate the experience section into a focus on current and previous roles, and a 'career history' summary which just lists the older posts without much detail. Will definitely remove the qualification dates.