Acceptable to put work experience in non-chronological order?

I'm trying to apply to PE, but I worked at a sales job at a big bank after my M&A internship. Aside from making the IB section larger to emphasize it, or leaving out the sales job entirely...would it be acceptable to list them in non chronological order to have IB be first, sales second, and so on? (or any other suggesitons?)

Thank you

 

That doesn't even make sense, like you said you could leave the sales job out. But people immediately look at dates on resumes and yours would end up in the trash if the dates weren't in chrono order.

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 

looks about right

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John Xi:
Hey guys, I am a bit confused about the ordering for the resume. First of all is it chronolgical or reverse-chronological for IBD? Secondly, my dates are a bit confusing and was wondering how exactly I should order it. My experiences have the dates:

June 2011-August 2012 February 2011- Present October 2011- November 2011 March 2012- May 2012

Thanks in advance.

February 2011- Present June 2011-August 2012 March 2012- May 2012 October 2011- November 2011

 

Depending on how lesser the experience is you can remove it.

Example 1: if you end up literally flipping burgers = exclude

Example 2: you work as a clerk at a finance firm = still likely smarter to exclude

Example 3: You work a temp position somewhat related to running screens on finance companies = include

More likely than not in that short time frame it will be tough to get something relevant to your future jobs.

 

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