How to write Professional Experience in a Resume

The section of the work experience in your resume is quite an important one. It will either break or make you get the interview. You should be careful about what you are presenting in your resume. It must be relevant to the points that out of the hundred candidates that are applying for the job, you are the best among them and the manager should consider your first amongst all the candidates.

Presenting Professional Experience in Your Resume

You should label the section as “Work Experience”, “Work History”, “Employment Experience” or any other titles that will denote what the content is all about. You should only the experience details for which you were paid. This might include part-time jobs, full-time jobs, internships, self-employment or the projects in which you had a temporary part. However, unpaid work or charitable work will not be taken into accounts. 

However, if you want the manager to know about your unpaid experience then you should label a title as “Other Experience” or “Relevant Experience” and then include the details there in the same which you would write about work experience.

1. What To Include In Your Work History

Below here are few things that you should never forget to mention in the work history section of your resume.

• Name of the organization or company in which you had been working or employed
• State and City of each company or organization
• Titles or Position in which you were elected while working for the organization
• The total duration of work in each of the organization or company
• A brief description of your responsibilities

You can also add about the promotions you had in the organization but do this only when you think your resume is not that long enough. Make sure your resume is of one page only and not more than that because you have put light on important information.

2. Express Everything In Details

One of the significant thing in the work experience part is that you should find a unique best way to describe all the contributions that you have given to the company. Make sure you are very concise and accurate. Highlight or underline the information that is relevant to the post that you are applying for in the company. The first line should be very important as it should catch the hiring manager’s eye and then work on from there.  Don’t write in too long, it should be short and important.

3. Format

There is no such hard and fast rule of formatting your resume but of course, you want it to be catchy and appeals the hiring manager’s eye.

4. Create Unique Histories

Try to edit the section of work history so that it can be relevant to the particular job that you have targeted. You can arrange the details accordingly and add some of the achievement for a particular opening. It will better if you prepare a different version of your resume and present them in the interview accordingly.

So, those were the points that tell you about how to present your professional experience in a resume. Try to structure your resume carefully in order to impress the hiring manager.