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26 August 2011
The employer/client for most positions request that we qualify you in terms of your past international development assignments/projects, length of assignments, positions held, type of project, employer & donor organizations, and country where you worked. Therefore, it is for this reason that I write you today to request that you revise your resume. It is also advisable to keep this information permanently in a resume that you submit to any other international development sector organization. Chronological format resumes are requested.
To fairly evaluate you we need, at minimum, this basic information on your past international development projects or work projects:
- Dates/Length of Assignment ---this can be exact dates or more simply: Jan 09-June 09 or 2009 (6 mos). Please do not use single year only like 2009 which does not tell us how long you were on assignment in a given country or region.
- Title--- Any title used while on assignment which may be an official or unofficial title.
- Project name---refers to name of donor funded project. This is helpful in showing us what type of project you worked on.
- Employer --- Consulting firm, company or international NGO (usually a contractor to a Donor organization) that hired, monitored and paid you.
- Donor (if applicable) --- organization that provided funds to your employer for the project. Examples: USAID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, EU, DFID.
- Country location. Please provide the name of the country where you worked and resided while on assignment for a given project. If you were in more than one country, please do separate work/experience entries by location. (Please do not provide the address of your employer, we can find this on the internet and it could be confused with your country location.)
This very critical information should be in the main line of each professional work entry in your resume. To help you further, a sample resume showing a variety of entries is available and intended to give ideas on how to present the vast experience you have. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write or call.