​Professional Experience
Next comes the professional experience section which relays what you have done in your career thus for. Here you’ll have a listing for each of your experiences with bullet points going into further detail. Have a section for each job that puts the company name in bold, where the job was located, the job title and the working dates at the top. The sections should be ordered reverse chronologically, meaning the first will be your current job, and the last your first job right out of college. Many people will only include the experience from their most recent three jobs or the last 10-15 years. Don’t do this. Employers and recruiters want to know the whole story. If your career spans decades, go into greater detail on your most recent experiences and those older than 10-15 years can be reduced to one line, but be sure you do include them. If you held multiple positions within an employer, how you display that will depend on what you want to communicate. If you want to communicate the overall accomplishments you can combine the experience by putting all the job titles together. If you want to show that you have a wide array of job experiences and show advancement, list each job title separately with its own bullet points under the company name. Just be sure that you do list all of your job titles out in some manner to show your progression and development.
Under each position, use succinct and direct bullet points to discuss your accomplishments, achievements, and contributions. If the company you work for is not well known, use the first bullet or a short sentence next to the job title to describe what the company does and its products or services. Whoever is reading your resume will be able to much better understand your experience if they know this. The rest of your bullets should paint a picture of why you were a valuable employee. Don’t simply write a job description of what you were expected to do. Rather, use words such as created, organized, managed, delivered, developed, prevented to tell what actions you took in your position. If you make a claim, you should be able to support that claim, so be sure to include key metrics that define what you accomplished.  Show how you helped improved the company’s bottom line If you saved costs somewhere or improved a design, write it down specifically and quantify it. Include things such as created X which saved the company Y, over the past Z or years.  Once you have done all this and your resume gives a comprehensive review of what you accomplished in each position, take the key elements to write the summary.