should your resume list the city/state for each job?

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This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager.

A reader writes:

As resume advice continues to evolve with the times (e.g., not including your street address on your resume), I’m wondering how important the location of each job is. Do employers really care if I worked in San Francisco, California, or in Dayton, Ohio? Would it be better to include in-person, hybrid, or remote?

Yes, you should still list the city and state of each employer.

Including the employer’s location helps verify that those companies actually exist. That doesn’t matter so much when the company is nationally known or when all your employers are local to the area you’re applying in, but otherwise it matters and will signal “this company is real and verifiable.”

Also, the location of an employer can add useful context. For example, for some jobs it would be helpful to know that you’ve dealt with the issues of a large city versus a small community, or that you have experience with a particular market.

If you were working remotely from a different location, you should still list the location of the company but put “(remote)” next to it.

You can format it like this:

Llama Grooming Inc., Providence, RI        January 2018 – November 2022
Llama Midwife
* accomplishment
* accomplishment
* accomplishment

Or like this:

Llama Grooming Inc., Providence, RI
Llama Midwife, December 2022 – present
Llama Assistant Midwife, January 2018 – November 2022
* accomplishment
* accomplishment
* accomplishment

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