Resume
Style
Basic Resume Styles/Formats
There are two basic resume styles,
or also called resume formats:
- Chronological Resume
- Functional Resume
Chronological Resume
The chronological
resume is designed to present your career information
by dates, beginning with your present or most recent position.
This resume style stresses the positions
you have held and the companies where you have worked. The
chronological resume format is most appropriate
for people who can show a long labor history with no large
gaps between jobs; also when you are not changing drastically
your career direction.
Functional Resume
The skill-based
or functional resume style allows you to play down gaps
in your experience since it emphasizes your abilities
and accomplishments
without providing detailed background information on where
and when you acquired these skills.
This resume format is especially suitable,
among other situations, for students
entering the job market for the first time, recent graduates
with little work experience,
people who are going back to the job market, and job seekers
in the middle of a career
change who want to emphasize their transferable skills.
These skills may have been gained through
paid employment, volunteer work, and hobbies.
The Right Resume Style
for You
Choosing among the different resume
styles, the right one can be a difficult task, nevertheless
it could be the deciding factor that will gain you an interview
and possibly the job you want.
Selecting one resume style or another will
depend on your personal situation. EasyJob
will help you to define your own situation and propose the
right resume style according
to the option you made.
Once you define your own situation and start
to write, EasyJob, by means of its “guru
at your beck and call” help system, will also help
you describe your duties,
detail your achievements
in an impressive way and, identify
skills you acquired and label those skills according to
the skills headings used in want ads and job descriptions.
For this purpose the application provides
you with hundreds of skill headings
examples and “skill-finding” techniques that
allow you to more effectively present the work you did and
the skills you gained.
What’s more? With EasyJob
write your resume using a functional or chronological
style is as easy as click on the right button
option of the program: chronological or functional. No matter
your personal situation, EasyJob Resume Builder
will take care of both the format & the content of your
resume as professionally as the best professional resume writer
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