Make a list of all your education/training since high school. Write the list in reverse order from most recent. Include all on-the-job training, personal classes, online training, college classes, and in-service training which you have successfully completed.
Then make a list of all jobs you have had since high school. If you are a recent high school or college graduate, include summer jobs.
For time lapses in which you were not employed, consider the following options for explanation on the resume:
1. If you have recently dropped out or taken time off from college for any reason, consider something along these lines:
- One-year (or one-semester or whatever time length is appropriate) sabbatical due to family responsibilities (or financial responsibilities or work responsibilities or whatever seems most appropriate)
2. If you have been out of the work force for a number of years, there are several different ways to handle this on a resume.
- If the unemployment time was between other employment, simply omit those years and write down employment in the years before and after. This is often the case with homemakers who have taken years off to be at home with young children, then have returned to work and are now looking for a change of job.
-The other situation is when the unemployment time has been very recent and this is the first time since then that you are seeking employment. In this case, you may either omit or write the years followed by "Family Responsibilities" or "Travel" or whatever is most appropriate under the circumstances.
List your employment and education information in the PROPER format.
