Year or Month - Year?

I have two variations, with the current resume being in month and year format and the older one being in year-only format.

My main concerns with month and year are when I remember the year but not the month, which is only true of one relatively insignificant position, and space, where I just ended up with a line that has position and date range wrapping to a second line.  That’s going to require reformatting, rephrasing, or changing to year.  That’s to the extent the job may even appear, since this is my master resume and variants are unlikely to include it.

Actually, my other oddity is with XTreme.  Technically, I am with it until we formally dissolve or I officially leave but it still technically exists with the other two partners, which isn’t going to happen.  Technically, my work is not done until I have filed the last 1065 and canceled the sales tax account and such.  Technically, even though there’s not revenue after what’s waiting for me to collect when I get to it, or if I attempt to go after other money for other past work, and even though the effort involved in winding things down will be modest, the end date on that should be “present,” not “October 1997,” which would render saying “1997” actually more accurate.  In an ambiguous sort of way.

I don’t think it would be that odd that, if I leave Stream as multiple positions, those would be:
1997 - 1999
1997
1996 - 1997
1995 - 1996
1994 - 1995

Anyway, thoughts on the display of dates in a resume?

I may have used just years originally to sound better.  Renovator’s Supply was 1990 - 1992 and that made it non-obvious that between it and Tranti Systems, 1993 - 1994, was a year and fourteen days unemployed.  Which is further obfuscated if there’s the Arisia volunteer work and the low level side business that mainly involved doing taxes mentioned in there, bridging years and years.

Which brings me to another thing I’d meant to post about… And which would also make a good LinkedIn question.

1. Earlier in my career I opted for month/year however now I just put the years.  As you noted, one main reason for including both is to demonstrate continuity in holding a job, and conversely just listing the years allows one to hide that fact if there are gaps.  Some employers will require you to fill out an application where they will want the month/year so it is important to know those dates regardless of whether you decide to include those details on your resume.

   Posted by  on  10/24  at  10:43 AM  from  Red Sox Nation
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