| A lot of people find themselves in a dilemma when it | | | | On the flip side, if your work experience far outweighs |
| comes to formatting the content on their resumes. Is it | | | | your education, it's probably best to include this first, but |
| better to list your education first or your professional | | | | it's entirely up to you to decide. It's important to keep |
| experience? Like most answers, the answer to this | | | | the job you're applying for in mind when deciding how |
| question depends entirely on you. | | | | to construct your resume. Are you applying for a |
| People who list education first on their resumes | | | | position as a marketing director, for example, and you |
| typically have little to no work experience or are | | | | have 15 years of experience in a similar position? If so, |
| recent graduates, and this is usually the proper way to | | | | this should be one of the first things a hiring manager |
| formulate your resume. Education will never hurt you | | | | sees on your resume. |
| on a resume, so if you're applying for a job and have | | | | The most important thing to remember, however, is |
| little to no work experience, it's probably best that you | | | | that both education and professional experience are |
| include your education first. You can further boost your | | | | equally valuable in their own right. If you're concerned |
| resume by including any educational awards you've | | | | about which to list first on your resume, you can |
| received and you can also list courses you've | | | | include both of them in your objective statement to |
| completed that are relevant to the job you're applying | | | | make sure that they are both noticed straight away. |
| for. | | | | |