Resume question...

[Kev]

If your company is acquired by another company, how do you reflect that on your resume?

Do you write 2 separate experience entries? Or do you just write both company names for the same time frame? I had essentially the same job under both companies.

 

[spidey07]

Put the current company as the section heading and then mention the other company was purchased in the body.

 

[MechJinx]

I would be interested to see what others have done as well here. I have this same situation. In some cases, I have listed both companies. In others, I listed both together. But, it would be interesting to see what a general consensus is about this situation.

 

[imported_Imp]

I'm formatting company resumes at work, and the company I'm with has bought many places out.

Here's what I'm told to do:

2008 - to date
Current Company Name, location, position

XXXX - 2008
Old Company Name, location, position

The positions should be the same to better reflect the aquisition.

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Put the current company as the section heading and then mention the other company was purchased in the body.

that seems misleading because i have been with the old one for several years but the new one for several months

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: Imp
I'm formatting company resumes at work, and the company I'm with has bought many places out.

Here's what I'm told to do:

2008 - to date
Current Company Name, location, position

XXXX - 2008
Old Company Name, location, position

The positions should be the same to better reflect the aquisition.

So is that the header, and then under that you write the experience?

 

[Tiamat]

For example on my resume it is listed as: Procter & Gamble: The Gillette Company.

More specifically:

Procter & Gamble: The Gillette Company

Shaving Test Laboratories (Dates worked)
Descriptions...

Research and Development (Dates worked)
Descriptions...

 

[AreaCode7O7]

Company A (formerly Company B)

 

[pontifex]

My company was bought out by another one last year. We still kept our name, but became a division of the parent company, so it's like "company a, a division of big company"

on my resume, i just put company a\big corporation. in the body of that entry, i made not that i helped integrate company a into big corp's network. i explained this during the interview also.

i don't know if thats the "right" way to do it or not.