Hi Lisa,
I would recommend NOT putting your contract work into another category
from other employment because you'll lose the benefit of having things
in reverse-chronological order. If you work as an independent contractor
for a few years, you don't want people to get the impression that you
weren't working at all during that time. Below are a couple of
suggestions for how to include contract positions or self-employment
chronologically among your other jobs.
Option 1 -- If you have done multiple, back-to-back jobs for one
contract company (including a company of your own):
Technical Writer, Contract Company Name
- Contracted to ABC (dates)--Spell out your job
responsibilities as part of a bulleted list.
- Contracted to XYZ (dates)--Spell out your job
responsibilities as part of a bulleted list.
Option 2 -- If you want to emphasize the company you did the work for
(but without lying about being an employee) and de-emphasize the
contract company:
Technical Writer, ABC Company (dates)--As a contract
employee, ... (or As an independent contractor, ...)
Option 3 -- If you want to lump together assorted contract/consultant
jobs (works for odd jobs that took up time but didn't contribute to your
career path):
Self-Employed Technical Writer (dates)--Performed
technical writing, editing, and desktop publishing
for several companies, including ABC Company and
XYZ Company.
I tend to use Option 2 because I can't remember any more which contract
houses I used for which contract positions (four jobs through three
companies back in the 1990s). Some of the contract houses don't exist
any more, so listing them would be useless anyway. No one has ever asked
about which contract house I billed through.
Regarding your question about the "e" after the hyphen. Capitalize it!
:-)
Best regards,
Donna
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