Quintessential Careers Press:
Surefire Resumes for New Graduates and Other Entry-Level Candidates
Chapter 7: Strive for Readability
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See some samples of chronological resumes:
Functional Resumes
The resume format preferred by job-seekers with a limited job history, a
checkered job history, or a job history in a different career field, is the functional
resume.
Job-seekers who take a functional approach organize their resumes by skills and functions clusters. In a purely functional resume, company names, employment dates, and position titles are intentionally omitted. The purely functional resume has very limited uses but can be an excellent marketing tool if well done, as in these two samples:
This resume format is the least common and least preferred by employers -- and most Internet job boards do not accept this resume format.
Combination (Chrono-Functional, Hybrid) Resumes
Because the purely functional format has become the subject of employer
backlash in recent years, some job-seekers have learned to structure their
resumes in a mostly functional format but to also include a bare-bones work
history in reverse chronological order, creating what is variously known as a
chrono-functional, hybrid, or combination format.
The work-history section need include only job title, name and location of employer, and dates of employment. You don't need to list what you did in each job because that information already is listed in your functional sections.
The chrono-functional/hybrid/combination resume highlights outstanding skills and achievements that might otherwise be buried within the job-history section while simultaneously presenting, yet deemphasizing, the chronology of jobs. The focus is on clusters of transferable skills and the experiences that are most relevant to the position for which you are applying. If you are open to more than one type of job, you can reconfigure the functional skills clusters to emphasize the skills most relevant to the particular job you seek.
Chrono-functional/hybrid/combination resumes suit a variety of job-seeker needs, such as a those with very diverse experiences that don't add up to a clear-cut career path, college students with minimal experience and/or experience unrelated to their chosen career field, and job-seekers with work experience that is related but not an exact link to desired position.
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