Dates on resume

[Anonymous]

Do you round up dates on your resume? Ie: June 27 end date rounded up to July?

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

You do not need actual dates. Years are sufficient for a resume.

Trinket Builder, Toys R Us 2012-2014


For education, I do not put dates at all because it helps to weed out older candidates.

University of Virginia, Masters of Science Trinket Building



I only provide firm dates for background checks, after I've interviewed, and am getting ready for an offer.

[Anonymous]

I would round, but not up if that makes sense. So with June 27, 2024 end date, I'd have:

August 2021 -- June 2024

Not August 14, 2021 -- June 27, 2024 and (to answer your question) not August 2021 -- July 2024

I would not want to mislead someone that I had been at a job longer than I had. I'm a lawyer and need to be precise and guard against misleading in everything I do, so I tend have some scruples others don't. I'll add that I have reviewed quite a few resumes in my day and someone rounding to July probably wouldn't bother me if I found out about it. But for things like clearances, you don't want to do that, it will matter.

[Anonymous]

If you have 10+ years experience and tenure in each role, years are fine. 2009-2012; 2012-2018.....

Also if you've moved around a lot,
2023 - 2024 looks better than
October 2023 - May 2024

Whichever format you use, be consistent

[Anonymous]

Do people really use just years? That would theoretically mean you could have had a 22 month gap in employment (say you stopped working in January 2023 and started a job in December 2024).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people really use just years? That would theoretically mean you could have had a 22 month gap in employment (say you stopped working in January 2023 and started a job in December 2024).

That's when you lie and say you worked for a temp agency during that gap. Temp agencies have super high turnover with their employees and terrible record keeping. I have both worked at one and with several as a temp. I have also used temp agencies to fill in gaps. I had an employment gap due to a kid's illness and wasn't getting bites. I filled in with a temp agency after seeing that hint on Reddit and sure enough, when I resubmitted my resume to the same jobs, I got bites. Companies only seem to care that you were consistently working and don't care WHY you may have had an 8 month+ gap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You do not need actual dates. Years are sufficient for a resume.

Trinket Builder, Toys R Us 2012-2014


For education, I do not put dates at all because it helps to weed out older candidates.

University of Virginia, Masters of Science Trinket Building



I only provide firm dates for background checks, after I've interviewed, and am getting ready for an offer.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do people really use just years? That would theoretically mean you could have had a 22 month gap in employment (say you stopped working in January 2023 and started a job in December 2024).

Yes, people really do this.

And hiring folks will weed them out if they have other good options. It doesn't fool anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people really use just years? That would theoretically mean you could have had a 22 month gap in employment (say you stopped working in January 2023 and started a job in December 2024).

Yes, people really do this.

And hiring folks will weed them out if they have other good options. It doesn't fool anyone.

I've never been weeded out. My resume stands for itself, and I have a very high interview to application rate.

No gap would generally look like

Job A 2020-2022
Job B 2022-current

Of course you could start a new job in January, but there is nothing wrong with a short gap. Everything is explainable, you are just trying to get an interview.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would round, but not up if that makes sense. So with June 27, 2024 end date, I'd have:

August 2021 -- June 2024

Not August 14, 2021 -- June 27, 2024 and (to answer your question) not August 2021 -- July 2024

I would not want to mislead someone that I had been at a job longer than I had. I'm a lawyer and need to be precise and guard against misleading in everything I do, so I tend have some scruples others don't. I'll add that I have reviewed quite a few resumes in my day and someone rounding to July probably wouldn't bother me if I found out about it. But for things like clearances, you don't want to do that, it will matter.

Yeah but for your background form you need to put in everything very precisely. It’s not just like you submit a resume.