Resume Advice

About7Narwhal · May 2015

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 · May 2015

bump... sure is lonely in here.

paul78 · May 2015

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 · May 2015

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

About7Narwhal · May 2015

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 · May 2015

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 · May 2015

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.

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