Every resume you make will include your work history. Your employment history will include four main details that provide crucial information to the prospective employer.

How you order these items on your resume is up to you, but keep in mind which item in your professional life is more impressive. Try to think like a recruiter; What do you want employers to notice and what do you want them to ignore?

Company Name

The first item on the resume work history checklist is the names of the companies you have worked for. If you’ve worked for a company that has strong brand recognition or just a good reputation in the industry, you may want to emphasize the company’s name on your employment history.

Be thorough if you have to when including the company name. I have asked job seekers when the job search background matches the name of the parent company instead of the one on their resume.

dates worked

The next item we want to cover on our resume work history checklist is the dates you worked for a company. The more stable your employment history, the more you’ll want to emphasize this section on your resume.

Depending on how specific you want to be, there are several ways to include dates on your resume.

• September 2010 – August 2014
• 8/9/2008 to 10/15/2013
• 1998-2013

You can certainly manage gaps better depending on how you include date information on your resume. However, no matter how hard you try to hide this information, the three or more applications you’ll fill out will eventually ask for specific dates.

I think it’s best to be honest and open about your shortcomings. Just detail how you’ve improved.

To lease

The third item on your resume’s work history checklist is the location of the job you worked at. This usually appears as the city and state (Hollywood, CA, for example).

Fairly simple information, but make sure this information is 100% accurate according to the company as it will make the background check process go more smoothly.

Job title

The last item of information on your resume’s work history checklist is your job title. Depending on your previous employers, you may or may not have had an official job title. If you did, stay with him. Even if it’s not the most glorious-sounding job title, it makes things easier when employers call your previous jobs.

If your job title was more up in the air, there’s no reason not to assign yourself an appropriate job title that corresponds with your duties. If you managed others, use manager in your job title. If you managed teams of people and staff, use the job title of director.

The most important thing is to be able to explain these job titles by referring to your duties and responsibilities, so make sure they match.

Organize your work history

With those four points in mind, there are several ways you can list your past employment. Again, as you look at these examples, keep in mind what you want to emphasize and what you’re trying to gloss over.

Company Name – Hollywood, Calif. August 2011 – September 2014

Customer Service Representative

JOB TITLE | Company Name 8/2011 to 9/2014

Hollywood, Calif.

Company name | Job title 2011 – 2014

Hollywood, Calif.

There are many different ways you can organize your information. No matter how you put together the work history section of your resume, make sure all of your information is correct and consistent. The recruiter should be able to easily identify each piece of information in your work history just by glancing at your resume.