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Whether you list your education or employment first is a strategic more than a stylistic decision. If you have a standard, finish-school- or-training-and-then-get-a-job type career, then your default might be to put the education first, because it makes sense chronologically. But people go in and out of school and jobs so much these days, that model seldom applies.

One client was seeking to enter a search marketing profession with limited experience but a relatively recent business degree from a well-respected university.  For her, putting the education first was a no-brainer.  If, on the other hand,  she had had fresh, relevant  job experience but had received a college degree in an unrelated discipline ten years ago, we might have done otherwise, but it is really a very personal, very strategic decision, influenced heavily by the strength of the credential and the job you are seeking.