How to List Multiple Positions at the Same Company on a CV

Staying with one employer can give you plenty to show on a CV: promotions, broader responsibilities and experience across different teams. The difficulty is presenting that history without repeating yourself or making several years of progress look like one long, unchanged job. Listing multiple positions at the same company on a CV works best when the layout reflects how your work actually changed. This guide explains when to group roles, when to separate them and how to handle dates, achievements and internal moves. You will also find examples you can adapt without inventing results or overstating your seniority.

1. Choose a layout for multiple positions at the same company on a CV

Start with the relationship between your roles, rather than how much space you want to save. A promotion with similar duties needs a different treatment from a move into another department.

There are three useful approaches:

Your situation	Suitable layout	Why it helps
Different titles, but largely similar work	One employer heading, separate dated titles and shared bullets	Shows progression without repeating duties
Substantially different responsibilities	One employer heading, with bullets beneath each dated role	Makes the scope of each position clear
Separate periods of employment or unrelated roles needing extra clarity	Standalone entries that repeat the employer name	Keeps each job and its dates easy to identify

Whichever layout you choose, put your most recent position first. Give each role its own dates so readers do not have to guess when you moved or how long you held a title.

Do not stretch your latest title across your entire employment period. If you spent three years as an assistant before becoming a manager, showing the management title against all four years would misrepresent your experience.

2. Group similar roles without hiding your promotion

Stacked job titles work well when your role developed gradually. Perhaps you moved from administrator to senior administrator while continuing to support the same team and systems.

List the employer once, place each dated title beneath it and then add a shared set of relevant bullets. Make clear that those bullets describe your progression across the roles, not just the earliest position.

Example: similar work with increasing responsibility

The following is an illustrative layout, not a real candidate's history:

[Employer name] — Leeds
Senior Administrator | September 2023–Present
Administrator | June 2021–August 2023

Selected contributions across both roles:

• Coordinated appointment bookings and maintained customer records for the service team.
• Created a shared handover checklist to make outstanding requests easier to track.
• Took responsibility for training new administrators after promotion to the senior role.

This approach avoids two nearly identical descriptions. The final bullet also shows what changed after the promotion, rather than leaving the reader to infer it from the title.

Use shared bullets only when their timing is clear or does not materially change their meaning. If most achievements belong to your latest role, place them underneath that role instead.

A promotion is worth recording, but it is not a substitute for evidence. Explain the added responsibility: reviewing work, handling complex cases, coordinating delivery or supporting colleagues. Avoid phrases such as “promoted for exceptional performance” unless you can genuinely support that explanation.

3. Separate roles when the work changed substantially

A move from customer support into account management deserves more than a second title above a shared list. Separate descriptions let you show the skills and outcomes associated with each position.

You can still use one employer heading. Under it, give every role a title, dates and its own bullets, with the strongest detail reserved for experience relevant to your next job.

Example: an internal move into a different function

[Employer name] — Manchester

Account Manager | February 2024–Present

• Manage customer onboarding, agreeing responsibilities and next steps with client contacts.
• Coordinate renewal preparation with the sales and service teams.
• Maintain account notes so colleagues can follow outstanding commitments.

Customer Support Adviser | July 2021–January 2024

• Resolved customer queries by email and telephone, escalating technical issues with clear case notes.
• Documented recurring questions for the team's internal knowledge base.

These sample bullets describe responsibilities rather than claiming impressive results. Replace them with your own evidence, including achievements where you have them. For help finding that evidence, see how to write achievements on a CV without inventing numbers.

For a lateral move, describe the new scope without calling it a promotion. Moving departments can demonstrate useful breadth even when your grade or seniority stayed the same.

If you are applying for another account management role, expand the recent position and shorten the support entry. If the vacancy centres on customer service, keep the earlier evidence that best matches its requirements.

4. Handle dates, acting roles and employer changes accurately

Complicated employment histories do not need complicated formatting. They need short explanations placed where a reader might otherwise become confused.

Returning to a previous employer

If you left and later returned, use separate employment entries in reverse chronological order. Do not present the whole period as continuous service.

For example, a role held from March 2024 onwards should appear separately from a previous stint ending in October 2021. Keep any intervening employment in its correct place.

Acting positions and secondments

Label temporary appointments honestly, using wording such as “Acting Team Leader” or “Project Coordinator — Internal Secondment”. Give the actual dates and explain overlapping responsibilities if necessary.

If you retained your substantive position during a secondment, a short note can clarify that relationship. Avoid a layout that accidentally suggests two simultaneous full-time jobs.

Employer rebrands or acquisitions

Where the organisation changed its name but your employment continued, a heading such as “[Current name], formerly [Previous name]” may provide enough context. You rarely need a paragraph about the company's history.

Older positions with limited relevance

Keep older roles brief, but retain titles and dates when they help explain your progression. You can remove outdated duty lists without erasing the steps that led to your current position.

Use a consistent month-and-year format throughout. Where dates genuinely overlap, explain why rather than changing them to make the layout look tidier.

5. Where Pitanga Labs fits

Once your career timeline is accurate, the next task is deciding what to emphasise for a particular vacancy. That is where AI support can help organise your material, rather than inventing a more impressive history.

The Pitanga Labs AI CV Writer creates an ATS-ready CV in Word, with ten recruiter-tested templates. A Word document gives you an editable starting point for checking that each title, date range and achievement sits in the right place.

Before using an AI tool, prepare a plain-text outline of your employment history. Separate the employer name, each role, its dates and the evidence belonging to it. Clear source information makes it easier to review the resulting draft for mistakes.

Treat “ATS-ready” as a formatting aid, not a guarantee of selection or flawless parsing. Different recruitment systems handle documents differently; the guide to how ATS CV screening works explains the broader process.

Use this final review checklist:

1. Confirm that every title matches the role you actually held.
2. Check that promotions, transfers and temporary appointments have accurate dates.
3. Make sure each achievement belongs to the correct position.
4. Remove repeated duties that do not add useful information.
5. Check any application form's imported work history before submitting it.

If a form merges your roles incorrectly, correct the fields manually where possible. Your CV layout and the employer's application form do not have to look identical, but they should tell the same factual story.

Conclusion

Multiple roles at one employer should make your progression clearer, not harder to understand. Group closely related positions, separate roles with different responsibilities and keep every title tied to its actual dates. Give the most space to evidence relevant to the job you want next. Start by writing a simple role-by-role timeline today, then use the Pitanga Labs AI CV Writer if you want help turning that material into an editable CV. Review the finished version for accuracy before sending it.

FAQ

Should I list the same company twice on my CV?

You can. Repeat the employer name when you had separate periods of employment or when standalone entries make your roles clearer. For continuous employment, one employer heading with individually dated positions is often easier to scan.

How do I show a promotion on my CV?

List your newer title above your previous title, with dates for both. Add bullets that show the increased responsibility. Do not apply the promoted title to the time before you held it.

Can I combine several roles into one CV entry?

Yes, particularly when the duties were similar. Keep each title and its dates visible, then use shared bullets carefully. Separate the descriptions when combining them would obscure different responsibilities or make achievements difficult to attribute.