To show a promotion on a resume, list the company name once, then stack both job titles under it, newest first, each with its own date range and its own bullets. This shows clear upward progress and stays ATS-safe. Do not split the roles into two fully separate company entries, which makes one employer look like two and can read as job hopping.
You earned a promotion, which is the good news, and now you are stuck wondering how to put two job titles from one company on your resume without it looking like you bounced between jobs. It is a surprisingly fiddly formatting question, and getting it wrong either hides your growth or confuses an ATS. The fix is one specific format, and below you get the stacked layout, a worked example, and the explicit answer on which version applicant tracking software reads correctly.
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The Two Ways to Show a Promotion, and Why One Wins
There are two formats people use for a promotion. The stacked format keeps one company name with both titles grouped under it. The separated format creates two independent job entries, repeating the company name twice as if they were different employers.
The stacked format wins for almost everyone. It tells the true story at a glance, you joined a company, did well, and moved up, and that progression is itself a selling point. The separated format buries that story. It repeats the employer, makes your history look longer and choppier than it is, and to a fast-scanning recruiter it can read like two short jobs instead of one promotion. Use stacked unless your two roles were so unrelated that grouping them would confuse the reader.
Stacked vs Separated: Side by Side
Here is the exact difference, using a marketing professional promoted from coordinator to manager. Most pages describe these formats. This shows them.
Marketing Manager, 2023 to 2026
Led a team of 6 and grew qualified leads by 47%.
Marketing Coordinator, 2021 to 2023
Ran 14 campaigns and cut cost per lead by 31%.
Led a team of 6 and grew qualified leads by 47%.
Marketing Coordinator, Hartwell Media, 2021 to 2023
Ran 14 campaigns and cut cost per lead by 31%.
Same employer appears twice, which reads as two jobs.
Both contain the same facts. The stacked version reads as one strong 5-year run with a promotion in it. The separated version reads as two shorter stints. Same career, two very different impressions.
The ATS Question Nobody Answers Clearly
Here is the part competitor pages skip entirely: does an ATS read stacked titles correctly? The honest answer is yes, most modern applicant tracking systems parse stacked titles correctly, but only if you format them so each role is unmistakably its own position.
The rule is one title per line, one date range per line, for every role. Give each title its own clear line directly above its own date line. The mistake that breaks ATS parsing is cramming two titles onto a single line, like "Marketing Coordinator / Marketing Manager, 2021 to 2026." A parser sees that as one job with a garbled title and loses your manager-level dates entirely. Keep the roles on separate lines and the ATS records both.
Company Name, City, State, total date span
[blank line]
Most Recent Title
Date range
Bullet, bullet, bullet
[blank line]
Earlier Title
Date range
Bullet, bullet
Should You Repeat Bullets or Combine Them
A real follow-up question that no top result addresses: do you write separate bullets for each title, or one combined list? Write separate bullets under each title. The point of showing a promotion is to show you operated at two levels, and shared bullets erase that. Under your senior title, put the work that proves the bigger scope, team leadership, budget, strategy. Under the earlier title, keep the strong execution-level results. If a role is more than 7 or 8 years old, 1 to 2 bullets is enough, but each title still gets its own.
Two or More Promotions at One Company
If you were promoted twice, the same rule scales. Keep one company entry, then stack three titles newest first, each with its own dates and bullets. Three stacked titles under one employer is one of the strongest things a resume can show, because it is visible, undeniable proof that the people who knew your work best kept betting on you. Do not break it into three separate entries and lose that effect.
Show Your Promotion the Right Way in Minutes
Stacking titles, splitting dates, and writing level-appropriate bullets for each role is exactly the kind of formatting that eats an evening. QuickResumeAI structures multiple roles at one company in a clean, ATS-safe stacked layout and helps turn each title's work into specific result bullets. Try QuickResumeAI.
For more on structuring experience, see our guides on how many bullet points per job and the best resume format for ATS.
