How many years back should you include on a resume?

Answer 1

This is really an individual decision, but generally no more than 10 years in detail. Basically, when designing a resume, you are trying to market yourself to best effect. This means the only rule is: include what makes you look attractive, exclude what doesn't. Of course that sometimes a challenge to figure out, but that's really the key. Louise Fletcher President and CPRW Blue Sky Resumes

depends on what type of job you are looking for. If you have rocky history and the job requires it, give it. eg. If you're a robber and the co. wants one, just tell them how good u have been. Just get the job whatever be the cost.

Additionally, one can avoid the "history" type of resume by instead grouping one's skills. For example,

Compensation Management

* created a new structure for sales incentive programs

a. This involved major changes in the XYZ corporation and the Smith corporation.

* Cut costs and spending

a. Reduced costs by using different vendors at the XYZ corporation...

Answer: Your resume must make the first impression before you get to walk in the door. A recruiter once told me don't bother going back past 15 years. List your skills on your resume and back up with accomplishments. Have you created anything, done anything really signifucant that stood out to your boss? Basically be confident and tell your story on your resume. An excellent book is the Knock Em Dead series. Check it out st the library or buy, you will not regret it. My nephew landed his job reading something over the phone directly from the book and it helped me get two different jobs.

Answer 2

First, there are several ways of spelling the word itself, but if you follow convention, "to resume" is a verb, while a CV would be a "resum饢 or "resumee" if you're short of accents.Second, try to fit it on one single page and make it snappy. Put yourself in the readers position and leave out the fluff. If you're young and have fewer years of work experience, keep high school etc in it. If you run out of space, leave only highest education and most important jobs in it. Be careful though that you don't have major gaps between jobs, employers see that and will ask.Good luck! While I would agree with the last poster to "put yourself in the reader's position", I do believe that we can beef up the answer a bit. Generally speaking, a recruiter does not care about experience gained more than fifteen to twenty years ago. However, as with everything in life, there are exceptions to this rule. If you are going for a position where you firmly believe that the organization is looking for "young" talent, then I would not go back any further than ten years maximum. Five years would probably be more ideal. Flip side is if you have a company who is looking for a real industry veteran, then you would want to list most, if not all of your experience. I have worked with some clients whose experience spans back into the 60's. While we would all love to believe that there is no longer the threat of age discrimination, it would be naive to believe that there aren't still folks out there who are going to say "Too old, probably going to retire on me." Do not give recruiters/hiring managers that chance! Do not list the date you graduated HS, and unless you graduated college very recently, I encourage my clients to leave off the dates on education. Bottom line-do your research! Do not be one of those posters who only clicks apply online without doing a little leg work in advance. Good luck!

Answer 3

Go as far back as necassary, maybe to jobs you had during your higher education, or maybe during highschool, but don't use random jobs cause they probably arn't relevant to the job you are applying for

Answer 4

A criminal background check includes your entire conviction history, unless the conviction was expunged, sealed, or otherwise prevented by a court or by law (some states limit criminal background checks to 7 years) from appearing on your record. Arrest records and civil suit results only show for 7 years.

A credit check typically goes back 7 years for debt collections, though it may go back 10 years for bankruptcy.

Added: NOTE: Your total criminal history is not blocked from some checks even if it was expunged. These include checks conducted by law enforcement - the court system - government agencies - and some private employers authorized to conduct background investigations leading to national security clearances.

Answer 5

Resumes are not really about a specific number of years, they are about relevant experience. Even if you have fifty years of relevant experience, you can list it all. If you only have three months of relevant experience, list that.