After you leave employment, it is important to maintain prior employment information for your personal records and future opportunities such as:

• It is important to keep your employment history up to date
• Make sure you keep a record of everything and place it somewhere where you can easily access it.
• Keeping these records helps you to better keep track of your work experience so when you apply for jobs, it will be easy to refer back to previous jobs

Employment History Sample

Job # 1
Employer: City of San Jose, Department of Parks and Recreation
Address: 200 East Santa Clara St., San Jose, CA  95113
Phone: 408 535 0000
Job Title: Intern
Salary: $10 hour 
Job Duties: Help to engage students in after school programs.  Organize games and activities, encourage students to participate, demonstrate how to play games or do activities, maintain attendance records of all students attending, clean up recreation area at the end of the day
Supervisor's Name: Sally Jones
Supervisor's Phone: 408 535 0000
Start Date: September 1, 2008 to present
Reason for Leaving: 

Job # 2
Employer:  Togos
Address:   18 N San Pedro St, San Jose, CA 95113
Phone: 408 280 6585
Job Title:   Server
Salary: $8 hour 
Job Duties: Prepare meals based on customer requests, clean area, stock food, conduct inventory
Supervisor's Name:  Bill Jones
Supervisor's Phone: 408 280 6585
Start Date: September 1, 2007 to August 1, 2008
Reason for Leaving: Better opportunity