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Multiple Positions at the Same Company on a Resume

Two scenarios — a promotion and a sideways move — shown as separate dated entries, with the date and duplication mistakes that make them read as confusing.

When you have held several roles at one company, show when each role began and what changed. The move may have been a promotion, a transfer, or a change in function.

One entry per position, each with the employer and its own dates, is a straightforward format. A grouped company heading can also work; the important check is whether the roles and dates stay clear.

First, work out which of the two situations you are in — the writing differs.

Scenario A: a promotion

The situation: you moved up. Same function, more scope, a different title.

Fictional example: Dana was a Support Specialist at Halvard Logistics from March 2020, promoted to Support Team Lead in September 2022, and is still there.

The entries:

Support Team Lead — Halvard Logistics · Sep 2022 – Present

  • Leads a team of five across two shifts, covering second-level support for enterprise accounts
  • Rebuilt the escalation process with engineering, cutting the number of tickets that reach it
  • Runs onboarding for new support hires

Support Specialist — Halvard Logistics · Mar 2020 – Aug 2022

  • Handled second-level tickets for enterprise accounts across email and phone
  • Wrote the internal troubleshooting documentation the team still uses

What the writing has to do here. Dana still works with enterprise accounts, but now leads the team and its processes. The earlier entry describes her own ticket handling and documentation work. Keeping those responsibilities under the relevant title makes the promotion clear.

What to avoid. Repeating unchanged bullets under both titles. Keep shared responsibilities where useful, but make new leadership or process work visible in the role where it began.

Scenario B: a sideways move

The situation: the function changed. Same company, different work, and the second role is not “more senior” so much as different.

Fictional example: Tomás joined Bergwald Media as a Data Analyst in 2019 and moved into a Product Analyst role in 2022 when the company restructured.

The entries:

Product Analyst — Bergwald Media · Apr 2022 – Present

  • Owns the analytics for two subscription products, from event instrumentation through to reporting
  • Works with product managers on experiment design and reads out results
  • Built the retention dashboards the product team uses weekly

Data Analyst — Bergwald Media · Jun 2019 – Mar 2022

  • Built and maintained the reporting pipeline in SQL and Python for finance and operations
  • Automated the monthly close reporting, replacing a manual spreadsheet process

What the writing has to do here. Describe the work in each function. Some responsibilities may continue across the move, but the employer name alone does not explain which ones. If you are applying for a product analytics role, the more recent entry gets more lines, and the earlier one gets enough to show the technical foundation.

What to avoid. Merging them into one entry titled “Data / Product Analyst, 2019–Present.” It hides the transition, and the reader cannot tell which skills belong to which period.

The mistakes that make either version confusing

Dates adjusted for appearance. Use the actual dates. In Dana’s example the specialist role ended in August. If a different candidate moved during September, both entries may legitimately show September. Don’t change a month to remove an apparent overlap; explain concurrent responsibilities if needed.

A gap between the two. Same problem in reverse. Consecutive internal roles should be contiguous unless there really was a break, in which case say so.

Total tenure hard to see. If the continuous history matters, state the dates directly: “At Halvard Logistics since March 2020; promoted to team lead in September 2022.” That avoids an experience total becoming stale.

An achievement repeated without context. Put the original project under the role where it happened. Describe later maintenance separately only when that responsibility matters to the application.

Mismatched titles. Use the actual title for each position. If it needs translation or a brief explanation, add that without changing the seniority. Check which profile facts move to the resume unchanged before editing titles.

About the stacked layout

There is a widely-used alternative where the company name appears once as a heading, with the titles and date ranges nested underneath it:

Halvard Logistics · Mar 2020 – Present Support Team Lead · Sep 2022 – Present Support Specialist · Mar 2020 – Aug 2022

The grouped heading saves repetition and shows total tenure. ExportMyResume uses a separate dated entry for each role and has no grouped-company layout switch. To use a shared company heading, arrange the entries in a word processor.

Whichever layout you choose, copy the exported text into a plain-text editor. Check that each title stays beside its employer and dates, with the right bullets underneath it.

Checking it after import

A LinkedIn profile groups roles at one employer under the company, so the import has to flatten that into separate entries. Open the editor and confirm:

  • Both roles are present. Not merged, not one missing.
  • Each has its own company name. Restore the employer if it is missing.
  • The dates match your records, including real gaps, shared transition months, or concurrent roles.
  • The bullets differ between the two entries.

If a role is missing entirely, check the import first: LinkedIn loads long lists in chunks and an import can stop short, which the import walkthrough covers.

Then look at the exported file, not just the editor. Two entries for one company can land either side of a page break, which visually separates them and makes the sequence hard to follow. Moving a page break means adjusting the content above it. There is no manual page-break control to insert one. PDF and Word exports sit behind Pro. Free for now during the launch offer: sign in to download PDF or Word without a subscription. Plain text is also free, and signing in enables PNG without a watermark.