How to List a Promotion at the Same Company on Your Resume

The most common and easiest-to-read format puts the company name on one line and lists each title underneath, newest first, with its own dates. Each title gets its own bullets. A reader can see the whole timeline at a glance. Here is how it looks: Brightway Home Health, Columbus, OH Shift Supervisor, March 2022 – Present • Lead a team of 14 caregivers across two shifts and build the weekly schedule • Handle family complaints and resolve most of them without escalating to the director Caregiver, June 2019 – March 2022 • Provided daily care for up to 8 clients and kept accurate visit notes • Trained 6 new hires on the company's documentation system This makes it obvious that you stayed three-plus years and moved up. Keep the date format the same on every line (for example, "March 2022" throughout) so nothing looks off. If you need a refresher on the rest of the entry, see our guide on how to list work experience.

If your roles were close together, or you were promoted several times and space is tight, you can show the titles on a single line with one overall date range: Brightway Home Health, Columbus, OH | June 2019 – Present Caregiver, promoted to Shift Supervisor Then write one set of bullets that covers both. This saves room, but it hides when you moved up and which results came from which role. It works best when the two jobs overlapped a lot or the earlier one was short. A good rule: if the new role has different duties, use stacked titles with separate bullets. If it was mostly the same work with a bigger title, one combined entry is fine. Don't list the company twice as if you had changed employers. A recruiter skimming quickly may count it as two short jobs, and an applicant tracking system may read it that way too.

The promotion should show in your bullets as well as your titles. Each role should read as a step up, not a copy of the one below it. Give the older role bullets about doing the work. Give the newer role bullets about owning, leading, or deciding. For example, someone promoted from sales associate to assistant store manager might write: Assistant Store Manager, Jan 2023 – Present • Open or close the store 4 days a week and manage a team of 11 • Cut weekly overtime hours by adjusting the schedule around peak traffic • Handle cash audits and sign off on end-of-day deposits Sales Associate, Aug 2020 – Jan 2023 • Helped about 60 customers a day in the electronics department • Met or beat the monthly sales goal in 9 of 12 months in 2022 • Trained new hires on the point-of-sale system Notice that none of the bullets repeat. If you have real numbers, use them, but only the ones you can back up. For help finding them, read how to quantify achievements. For stronger phrasing, see how to write resume bullet points.

Not every move up fits neatly. Here are the common ones. Several promotions in a few years: List each title, but give the older ones just one to three bullets. Put most of your space on the current role and the one right before it. Employers care most about your recent work. A title change with no real promotion: If you only got a new title, such as a company renaming "Clerk" to "Associate," you can list both titles, or just use the newest one. Don't present it as a promotion if it wasn't one. Acting or interim roles: Say so honestly, like "Acting Department Lead (interim), Oct 2023 – Mar 2024." If you did the job but never got the title, you can describe the duties in your bullets without claiming the title. A move to a different department: This still counts. Put the company once and list each title with its dates. Your bullets will show the change in focus. A title that means little outside your company: If your official title is something internal like "Associate III," you can add a plain-language version, such as "Associate III (Customer Support Team Lead)." Make sure it describes what you actually did and would hold up if someone checked.

A few things trip people up. Don't give the promotion its own separate company entry. Don't leave out the earlier title just because it was lower; the growth is the point. Don't stretch dates to make the timeline look longer, since employers verify them. And don't copy the same bullets under both titles. Before you send the resume, check these points: the company appears once; titles run newest to oldest; every date uses the same format; each role has bullets that fit its level; and your summary, if you have one, mentions the growth, such as "Promoted twice in four years." If you're not sure which of your old documents have the right dates and titles, check old offer letters, performance reviews, or pay stubs. aNewJob can also build your resume from documents you already have, and its short interview helps you sort out which duties belong to which role.