RESUME

• Resume


  Provides a summary of your background including your education, work history, and other qualifications for a job, admission to a college or university, or a scholarship grant
• Purpose of a resume

  To interest an employer or a university official enough to call you for an interview
• Types of resumes


  • Chronological
  • Functional
  • Combination
  • Targeted
• Chronological resume


  • Lists each job you held in order, starting with the most recent
  • Works well with several years of relevant experience
  • Highlights stable employment record
  • Employers like to see job titles, level of responsibility, and dates of your work history
  • Easy to prepare
  • Employment gaps may be too obvious
  • Skills can be hard to see unless they are listed in the most recent job
• Functional resume


  • Best when you have too little or too much experience
  • Focuses on skills and strengths significant to employers
  • Lets you to highlight particular strengths and transferable skills which may not be noticeable when outlined in chronological order
  • Work has no detailed history
  • It may seem to lack depth
  • Unpopular for most employers
  • It makes them think you may be trying to conceal your age, employment gaps, lack of appropriate experience
• Combination resume


  • Balances the flexibility and strength of the chronological and functional resumes
  • Indicates strong employment record with increasing mobility
  • Shows how the skills you have used in the past apply to the job you are seeking
  • Highlights transferable skills
  • Usually utilizes two sheets or pages where the work history is often on the employer may not read that far
• Targeted resume


  • Highly focused resume intended for specific job: a "capsule" of work experience
  • Concise, direct, and easy to read
  • May focus too firmly on one specific job or work
  • Content may appear limited