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Pilots should list FAA certificates and ratings, including any aircraft type ratings, with total and pilot-in-command hours. Mariners should give their Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Credential and its endorsements, plus STCW and TWIC where they apply.

Next, show you're safe and dependable in numbers: miles or years without a preventable accident, on-time delivery rate, stops or loads per day, clean roadside inspections, or sea time and flight hours by vessel or aircraft type. Name the equipment you've handled, from tankers and flatbeds to a specific airframe or vessel class.

For example: "Logged 310,000 miles over three years on regional refrigerated routes with no preventable accidents and a 98% on-time rate." If your work came as contract or seasonal runs, group them under one heading with combined dates so the timeline holds together.

• What format works for a pilot resume?

  One page, with three blocks at the top: certificates and ratings, a flight-time table and your medical class. List certificates highest first. The usual order earned, per Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, is student, private, instrument rating, commercial, multi-engine rating and airline transport pilot (ATP).

  In the table, split total time into pilot in command, multi-engine, turbine, instrument, night and cross-country, matching your logbook. Those figures map to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) minimums, such as the 1,500 hours of total time an airplane ATP generally requires under 14 CFR 61.159. Experience and education follow, with the aircraft you flew named in each job.

• How do I list my CDL on a resume?

  Copy it the way the license reads: class, issuing state, endorsement codes and any restriction codes, as in "Class A CDL, Ohio; endorsements N, T; restriction E." Federal rules define the codes, so a recruiter reads E as no manual-transmission vehicles, L as no air-brake vehicles and K as no driving across state lines, and matches them to the equipment you'd drive.

  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's entry-level driver training rules cover a first Class A or B license, a B-to-A upgrade and a first H, P or S endorsement issued from February 7, 2022 on. If yours came under them, name your training provider and the date you finished.

• How do I put Uber or delivery driving on a resume?

  List it as self-employed work, such as "Independent driver, Uber and DoorDash," with your city and dates, and group several apps under that one heading. Then give numbers you can back up from your app history: trips or deliveries completed, your rating, any on-time or acceptance rate the app shows, and hours a week.

  Add your vehicle type and a clean driving record if you have one. Applying for a company role such as Non-Emergency Transportation Driver or Water Delivery Driver? Put safety and customer service first.

• Where does sea time go on a mariner's resume?

  Put it in each job entry: the vessel type, its tonnage, your rank and the days aboard, with a sea-time total near the top. Mariners need that time to move up: the BLS says a U.S. marine oiler needs at least 3 years of experience to become a third engineer, then more to become a second engineer, and that maritime academy graduates earn part of it in school.

  U.S. credentials call the first officer rungs third mate and third assistant engineer; many fleets use other names. On deck: Deck Cadet, Third Officer, Master Mariner. In the engine room: Engine Cadet, Trainee Marine Engineer, Fourth Engineer, Third Marine Engineer, Second Engineer.