orchestral resume help

[rascaljim]

Hi all

I'm currently trying to get a finalized version of my resume to send out to Cleveland and Milwaukee, and I'm trying to get some advice. I have had a few different people look at my resume and everyone seems to make drastic formatting changes and there's also a rather large dispute on whether or not you should put dates for everything on a musical resume.

My musical helper says no dates and put the largest section of stuff (which should be orchestral experience) on top and work your way down, whereas my business world contact says dates are a must and you need to have stuff stand out in the resume like specific phrases in bold and things like that.

So basically I'm not sure where to go next. Both people have valid reasons for telling me what they do, but I just can't seem to get to a place where everyone's happy.

What ideas do youall have for helping me improve my resume

Thanks
Jim Langenberg

[vmi5198]

The best advice for this kind of thing would be to read the Doug Yeo articles on making a Music Resume. He has helpes a lot of people over the years, and is a really nice guy!

Chech out his webpage at http://www.yeodoug.com/

[leehipp]

I would suggest you put dates by all of the groups you have performed with.

Having looked over tons of resumes for positions with the San Antonio Symphony it is very helpful to know at which point in a candidates past or present they performed with an ensemble.

This should read from your most current work then going back from that point. It's always a good idea to keep it to one page as well.