Resume template · Updated October 2026
Resume template after a long tenure at one company
Short answer
Catalyst suits a long career at one employer. It opens on work experience with no summary, so your current title and its results come first, and the promotions stack beneath it with their own dates. The fictional sample spent 14 years at one insurer, rising from claims adjuster to claims operations manager, and is now applying elsewhere for the first time.
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Why Catalyst suits a long tenure at one company resume
Catalyst starts straight on work experience and is meant for experienced people whose latest job carries the application. After 14 years at one company, the current manager role is the strongest evidence, and the earlier titles listed under it show the climb with nothing in between.
Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta keeps a summary in a conventional business layout; pick it if you want two sentences on why you are moving after so long.
What goes in each section, in Catalyst's order
Catalyst prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Work Experience. Give each title its own dates, newest first, and spend most of the bullets on the current one. Earlier titles get one or two bullets about what earned the next step. Name the big changes you lived through, such as a new claims platform, since they show you have handled change without changing employers.
- Skills. Long tenure leaves you fluent in internal tools and nicknames nobody outside uses. Translate them into the market's names (Guidewire, Xactimate, Power BI) and drop anything only your employer would recognise.
- Education. Degree, school and year in one line. After 14 years the degree is a fact to confirm, not a section that needs coursework or a GPA.
- Certifications. An industry designation earned along the way shows you kept learning while staying put. Catalyst prints this near the end, so add the designation to the headline too if postings in your field ask for it.
The sample resume as text
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Angela Petrovic
Claims Operations Manager, Property and Casualty, AIC
Des Moines, IA | angela.petrovic@example.com | (515) 555-0115 | linkedin.com/in/sample-angela-petrovic
Experience
Claims Operations Manager, Prairie Mutual Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA (01/2022 to Present)
- Run daily operations for a 38-person auto and property claims unit handling about 1,100 new claims a month.
- Cut average cycle time on auto physical damage claims from 14 to 9 days by routing simple claims to a desk-adjuster queue.
- Led the unit's move to Guidewire ClaimCenter, including training plans for every adjuster.
- Hire and develop team leads; two of the four current leads were promoted from adjuster roles.
Claims Team Lead, Prairie Mutual Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA (03/2017 to 12/2021)
- Led nine adjusters and reviewed every claim over $25,000 before payment.
- Built the onboarding checklist still used for new adjusters.
Claims Adjuster, Prairie Mutual Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA (06/2012 to 02/2017)
- Handled about 120 open auto and homeowners claims at a time.
- Promoted to team lead after leading the unit in quality audit scores two years running.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Raccoon River College (05/2012)
Certifications
- Associate in Claims (AIC), The Institutes (2016)
Skills
Claims operations, Cycle time reduction, Reserve review, Quality audits, Workforce planning, Guidewire ClaimCenter, Xactimate, Excel, Power BI, Coaching team leads, Planning with underwriting and finance
How to make the sample yours
Put the designation next to your title
The line under your name is the only framing on a Catalyst page. "Claims Operations Manager, AIC" tells a recruiter your level and your credential before the first bullet.
Give each promotion a reason
A bullet such as "Promoted to team lead after leading the unit in quality audit scores" explains why you moved up. Three titles with no reasons can look like seniority earned by waiting.
Read your bullets as an outsider would
Every long-standing company has its own names for teams, reports and queues. Replace each internal term with the industry one, and ask a friend at another company to flag anything unclear.
Shrink the earliest title
The adjuster years matter, but two bullets are enough. A reader hiring a manager wants the last five to eight years in detail.
Have a forward-looking answer to "why now?"
The resume does not give a reason for leaving, but the first interview will ask. Prepare a sentence or two about what you want next, such as a larger unit or a new line of business.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- claims operations
- property and casualty
- cycle time
- claims adjusting
- team leadership
- quality audits
- reserve review
- Guidewire ClaimCenter
- Xactimate
- workforce planning
- process improvement
- AIC designation
- promoted
- training and onboarding
Mistakes to avoid
- One giant entry covering 14 years with no separate titles. Stacking each role with its dates is what shows growth.
- Bullets full of internal acronyms and team nicknames that mean nothing to a new employer.
- Apologising for staying, or calling the job "comfortable". Long tenure shows reliability; the promotions show you were not standing still.
- Listing every internal training module. Keep external designations and drop the in-house courses.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
Frequently asked questions
How do I show promotions at one company on a resume?
Give each title its own entry and dates, newest first, under the same employer name. The current title gets most of the bullets; each earlier one gets a bullet about what led to the promotion.
Does working at one company for a long time look bad?
Not on its own. Readers look for growth: rising titles, wider scope, new systems learned. A long stay with several promotions reads as reliability and progress.
How far back should I go if all my experience is at one employer?
Show every title there, since it is one story, but keep the oldest ones to a bullet or two. Jobs before it that are more than fifteen years old can be dropped or cut to one line.
How do I make internal experience understandable to other employers?
Swap company jargon for industry terms, give team sizes and volumes, and name standard tools. Then ask someone outside your company to read it and point out anything they do not follow.
Should I say why I am leaving after so many years?
Not on the resume. Keep a short, forward-looking reason for the cover letter or the interview.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Catalyst PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 4 section headings and all 8 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
Guides and templates for this resume
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- Manager and General Manager Resume Example and Writing Guide
- How Far Back Should a Resume Go?
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- How to List Certifications and Licenses on a Resume
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