I worked at a company for 4 years. In the first 3.5, I was an individual contributor (IC). In the last 0.5 year I was 50% IC and 50% leading few junior ICs.
In my resume, I want to have two sections: one for work experience and one for leadership experience. For the former, when I list my IC role, is it OK to put 4 years for the date, and for the latter, put 0.5 years for the date? I am not sure if this may sound misleading as the dates for the two "positions" would be overlapping...
If you have leadership results in the 1st 3.5 years feel free to put that under the IC role.
It's unclear to me whether you're planning on putting down dates or duration in your resume but I think splitting up your work experience into separate individual contribution and leadership sections would be confusing even without the overlap.
You can include the fact that you lead junior co-workers for half a year as a bullet point (or points, depending on what you want to say) under your role at that company.
If you want to talk more about your experience leading a small team of juniors in your job application, a cover letter is a good place to do that.
Recruiter here!! :)
I would add the two experiences under the same company and not overthink it :)
Like this:
Company XYZ - 2010-2014
Leadership role - responsibilities...
Individual contributor - responsibilities...
Recruiters and employers don't care about dates that much... the content of the resume is truly what matters :)
