You lost me on why you decided on a hidden paragraph, etc.

For the sake of simplicity, I'd just use Normal style for the name of the
company with different text to achieve special visibility:

Octopus corp.  - Dallas, TX

Job title would be Normal as well.

Create a style called "Acc" with whatever indent, bullet, font you want.

When you're finished editing your resume, select one of your last-appearing
accomplishments and create a style called "Acc_last" based on "Acc."

Add whatever trailing space you want after the last line under Paragraph
(Alt-shift-S->Modify->Format).

Now copy that style to all the last appearing accomplishments under each job

Richard

i have the following in my resume for each prior job:

Company Name¶ - Location
Position, Date Range¶
- accomplishment¶
- accomplishment¶

where the accomplishments are bulleted items

i made the Company Name a heading so that it shows up in the
outline...the paragraph after it is hidden so that "- Location" is on
the same line, and there is a carriage return after Location.

so first off, is this the right way to do things?  after 10+ years of
using MS Word, i've just discovered styles...

secondly, what would i do if i want a certain amount of space between
each job?  ideally, i would like to be able to tell word that the whole
group of text is, well, a group, and that there should be space when
two such groups adjoin.

but i can't figure out how to do this... the only way i have been able
to find is to add vertical space (before) to the heading style that
controls Company Name.  however, this is not optimal because the first
entry will have more lead space than i want.  i only want the space in
between the job entries.

suggestions?  thanks!