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> So, have any of you ever been in the same situation and do you have any advice on how should I overcome this?

I haven't, but a good friend had a very similar experience. He worked in telco, stayed at the same company for almost 20 years and then wanted to move on.

The problem wasn't him, it was the company he worked for. They had (still have) a reputation for being bad on the technical side, using age old technology and an even older management style, never updating anything to contemporary standards. Sub-par products.

Potential employers didn't want him because they were afraid he was representative of his old companies' culture. Half his resume was just the different positions he filled at that one company.

The solution he eventually found was to dissociate himself from the company as much as possible on paper. He also picked up 2 modern technologies that he had never used and mentioned them in the applications, as a form of showing he was ready to learn new stuff. It worked.