How many years of work experience should you list on your resume?

Answer 1

It depends on how many jobs you've had. Before I got the job I'm at now, I worked kind of sporatically, so I went all the way back to my teenage years. If you have 5 solid years of work experience, that may be all you need. List your past jobs that pertain to the position you are applying for, no matter when you had them. A chart on your resume (with invisible lines) with headings: position, employer and year should suffice. Employer always like a well thought out cover letter too. Good luck with your work search!

Answer 2

Experience is usually a win-win situation in resume writing. If you think that you have "too much" of it or it does not pertain to your job search, then focus more on work experience that mirrors the requirement of the job you want. Aside from that, there's really no single answer to this question as there really is no cookie-cutter resume, but generally speaking experience is often times the one of the most valuable element of of any resume.

Answer 3

List everything that you have done. Any breaks in dates etc would be questioned anyway. Doing more years work experience than another candidate could make the difference between you getting a job and not

Answer 4

List all of your relevant experience for the position. Though, be aware that employers may interpret positions that you held for less than 3 years as "red flags". Significant gaps in between jobs may also be interpreted as "red flags". Be sure that you can explain these circumstances if they appear on your resume. Good luck!

Answer 5

Include most jobs back to your education, if there are some that are very unimportant you can exclude them. Just make sure you have all of the years covered back to the end of your schooling. No gaps in your time line, that would show you were out of work and it is not impressive.

Answer 6

if you are 70 years old, list last 40 years. if you are 17 years old, list anything worth while.

if you are 30, account for last 10 years at least. employers like to hire dependable people, no one likes to waste time.money training an employee only to have them leave after 6 months.

Answer 7

all the years that u have worked :)

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Answer 8

the actual number of years that you worked. no one wants to hire a liar

Answer 9

its up on u how u convince the interviewer about the mentioned experience