I've been out of school for over 10 years btw

Job-Genie treats a decade-old degree as a credential footnote, not a headline. After 10+ years in the workforce, recruiters are shortlisting on evidence of impact, not academic history. Education moves to the bottom of the CV — your career record becomes the primary signal.

Why This Matters for Your Recruiter-Fit Gap

The Recruiter-Fit Matrix assesses how a candidate presents against what a specialist recruiter actually needs to place them. For candidates 10+ years post-graduation, leading with education is a structural misalignment — it signals inexperience rather than seniority. This inflates the Recruiter-Fit Gap and directly raises the Application Silence Score, because recruiters scanning for mid-to-senior talent skip profiles that read like graduate entries.

What Job-Genie Does Differently

Through the Truth Layer, Job-Genie restructures the CV so that:

- Education appears at the bottom, typically in a single concise line (degree, institution, year)
- Professional achievements, scope of responsibility, and sector-specific language occupy the prime real-estate at the top
- Recency and relevance drive the narrative, not chronological academic history

If your degree is from a recognised institution or is specifically required in your field (law, medicine, engineering), Job-Genie retains it — but positions it correctly as a qualifier, not a differentiator.

The Recruiter-Ready Brief

The Recruiter-Ready Brief produced alongside your rewritten CV also omits academic framing unless directly relevant. Specialist recruiters operating in the hidden job market are matching candidates to live — often unlisted — briefs. They need to hear seniority, sector fit, and value delivered. "Graduated from X in 2013" does not move a shortlisting conversation forward.

Bottom Line

Being 10+ years out of school is not a weakness — misrepresenting where you are in your career by over-indexing on education is. Job-Genie corrects that structural error so the CV reflects the professional you actually are, not the graduate you once were.