Structuring your professional experience

Summary

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  For each role list: job title, company, location, dates, then 3 to 5 achievement-focused bullets.

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  Start bullets with strong action verbs (led, built, managed, launched), not “was responsible for.”

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  Always use month and year, not years alone. Year-only dates can distort tenure or look like you’re hiding something.

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  Put most relevant / recent roles first with the most detail. Older roles can shrink to one or two lines.

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  Goal: make it easy to see what you did, where, and how well, quickly.