Resume Advice

About7Narwhal

Hey all,

I think it is about time I work on my resume and I need a little bit of help. Here is the situation:

• I have worked for the same company for almost 3 years
• I have officially changed titles once:
  • Job Title A
  • Job Title B
• Within Job Title B I have taken two high level responsibility changes:
  • Job Title B
  • Job Title B + Lead for Responsibility A
  • Job Title B + Lead for Responsibility A + Lead for Responsibility B

With those responsibility changes, I maintain my Job Title responsibilities. The lead responsibility is generally primary support for a specific department/location and is considered a large responsibility within my company.

Here is the question:
What is the best way to list these changes? Job Title A and Job Title B can be separate entries because they are totally different jobs, but Responsibilities within the Title B do not come with any change in official title.

My Current Resume Experience layout is as follows:

Company Name, Location (Date aligned to the right of the page)
Job Title
1-3 sentence summary of the job (summary of my responsibilities)
1-5 bullet points on the position (key points of my position)

Any advice would be helpful.

About7Narwhal

bump... sure is lonely in here.

paul78

To me - 2 different titles/roles means 2 different jobs so I would do this:

Company Name, Location (Date aligned to the right of the page)
Job Title 2
1-3 sentence summary of the job (summary of my responsibilities)
1-5 bullet points on the position (key points of my position)
Job Title 1
1-3 sentence summary of the job (summary of my responsibilities)
1-5 bullet points on the position (key points of my position)

Reason for this format is that it demonstrates progression within the company.

techfiend

As someone dealing with the same thing, separating them makes sense to show progression.

About7Narwhal

I agree that separate titles should roll under a single company to show progression OR they should be broken into two completely different entries. The problem is that these responsibilities I undertook in addition to my normal job duties did not change my title. I guess I could add those responsibilities as bullet points for the position.

So it would be like this:

Company, loc, date
Job Title
Summary of position
bullet point indicating special assignment (Responsibility A)
bullet point indicating special assignment (Responsibility

If I do that though, it seems like I should drop the bullet points for my other jobs as I did not have any special assignments.

Alternatively, I could put the Job Title: Lead for Responsibility A but then I would have 3 entries within the single company showing their start date to present.

Let me know if my explanation has been unclear.

paul78

I think I understand the explanation. My short response would be that if your title did not formally change, you shouldn't list it as a separate job entry.

About7Narwhal

That works. I will list all jobs within the same company under the same company heading, but break out the official title changes into sub-groups. I will list the responsibility additions as extra bullet points within the position in question. I'll probably post something up before I start using it. We will see.

Thanks for the input.