Include any work experience you have had, whether you were paid for it or not. If you completed the work as an intern, volunteer, or teacher’s assistant, include that information if it is relevant to the job for which you are applying. To properly list your experience, you should include three components, your employer, your position, and the time period during which you held that position. For example:
IBM, Database Administrator, June 2001 – present
Database Administrator, IBM, June 2001 – present
If your job title was significantly more impressive than the employer’s name in the industry, list your title ahead of your employer’s name. If your company is as impressive as—or more impressive than—your title, lead with the company name.
If you held different positions within the same company, use the company as a heading and list your positions below. For example:
IBMSenior Database Administrator, June 1999-present
Database Administrator, June 1998-June 1999
Standing Out From the Crowd: Positioning Your Experience
As much as any other step in your job search, positioning is incredibly important when drafting and perfecting your résumé. As you learned in How to Stand Out From the Crowd, positioning yourself is a five-step process.
1. Take the research you have done about the company for whom you’d like to work and use it to determine what the company needs from you.
2. Take the research and contemplation you have done about yourself and identify the skills that you have that the company needs.
3. By understanding both the company’s needs and the skills and traits you can offer, you can compare the two and determine how you, as a potential employee, can most help the company.
4. Explain and demonstrate to the company’s representatives how your skills will benefit them by citing specific examples of how you’ve applied your skills in the past.
5. Lastly, be sure to show the company how your soft-skills complement and compound your technical skills, making you an even more valuable potential employee.
PAR
A widely used and very good technique for positioning your skills and experience within a résumé is commonly referred to as PAR (Problem, Action and Results). Use the PAR approach when citing past work experiences and accomplishments to explain your value to your potential new employer. PAR statements, in essence, answer the following questions in the following order:
1. Problem – What problem did I solve for my employer?
2. Action – What action did I take to solve the problem for my employer?
3. Results – What were the beneficial results of my action?
Consider using the PAR structure when detailing your prior employment experience. For example, a PAR statement on your résumé would read:
Reduced cost of purchased network systems by over $35,000 by finding and negotiating with alternative suppliers.
Implemented standardized configuration control standard to streamline helpdesk operation and increase calls handled per hour by over 23%.
RECOGNITION AND AWARDS
Make sure your résumé highlights outstanding recognition you have received for past accomplishments. Such recognition and awards might include:
* GILD Certifications
* Customer recognition for an achievement
* Co-worker recognition for an achievement
* Manager recognition for an achievement
* A promotion
* A company award
* A productivity bonus
* Being selected to assume greater, special professional responsibilities
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