How Do I List Jobs Within the Experience Section?

• Job listing should be in reverse chronological order (that is, your most recent job is listed first.)
• Listing must include name of company, city and state. Do not list street addresses, supervisors, telephone numbers or reason for leaving.
• Dates of employment are required. Be sure to include month (or term) and year, i.e., Fall 2004 or June 2003-present.
• There is no rule about which jobs you must include. Use your discretion and include everything needed for the employer to make a good decision about whether or not to interview you. You might list every job you've ever held or you might just list your last 3 positions.
• Another approach might be to only include the relevant positions you've had and name the section Related Experience or Relevant Work History or something similar.
• Another option is to isolate the related experience (including internships) in one section (titled Related Experience or Internships or ??) then follow with the unrelated (but still valuable) experience in a Work History section.
• List a job title so the employer has an idea of the work you performed. If you didn't have an official title, choose one that best describes what you actually did at this job.
• Typically job duties should not be included here unless they are highly relevant to your objective. Even then do not include duties which are implied by your job title or alluded to in the Summary of Qualifications or Profile section. However, job accomplishments SHOULD be listed as bullet statements under each position as applicable. This is where you get to use the information identified as "results" from the Job Duty/Task Analysis worksheet (there it is again.)

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