Your resume is a selling document highlighting your best features. Decide what’s most impressive in your work experience and use it to sell your skills and achievements. For example, there’s little point in listing or expanding on your role as a trainee accountant for 18 months 15 years ago if you are applying for the post of Chief Accounting Officer for a major corporation. Limit yourself to the work of the past ten years or the past four or five positions you have held. If you feel you must list all your positions, list them in descending order with the most recent first. Expand on the most recent achievements in your most recent positions. Then place the date and job title for less important or earlier career positions, without any more details. Better still, write a short summary sentence covering your earlier career such as: Accountant with 25 years’ experience working with Boeing Corporation. This will force the reader to concentrate on your more recent and most relevant work experience.