Any functional resume has to be enticing to the prospective employer. This is because there are very many resumes that such an employer receives and only a limited number of people are being sought and will eventually be enlisted for the particular position.
Things to avoid for a functional resume
One thing you should avoid when working on a resume sample is the negatives portrayed by your career history. Try as much as possible to avoid showing the employer the instabilities in jobs that may be shown by changing jobs within short periods of time. It is better to write the most relevant occupations that go in line with that particular job opportunity. Also, never seem to seek for pity in your resume or try to write of your misfortunes with the past job experiences. This will surely disqualify you from the job contention.
Samples vary with the type of individual's occupational experience.
A resume sample varies as per what type of occupation an individual holds. It should therefore not stress you that your resume seems to contain less than the next persons. The idea is to be genuine as possible and forgetting the negatives that may be a limitation to your job search.
This should be taken into account since the different occupations require different levels of experience which need to be accounted for in the resume. There are people ranked to be of entry level and these includes the people with not more than two years experience and happen to be on a career transition. Their resumes should be strategically set to showcase their points of strengths in that particular field and also write more on the desire to advance and grow professionally. An employer seeks this group of people knowing that they do not have substantial experience but need to be inducted in the job and more skills imparted on the for later use.
The other group consists of professionals. These are the people who hold more than two years in a particular field of expertise. They are the people involved in changing careers or wishing for a better rank in the same career. For this group the main aim of a resume is to help in advancing to the next level in a particular field. It also helps at getting a higher rank and increasing the level of your earnings. This resume should therefore be very clear in terms of what you can do best and prove in no doubt that you have such great levels of knowledge not forgetting how it can be implemented in the field you are seeking for.
There next level is the student's resume. This resume is not as complicated as the others. It is all about selling more of the academic experience and what the academic background can help you in majoring in that specific field of expertise. It should be in your mind that with the kind of job being given to the students the employer does not need any job experience, and he or she knows what to expect from interviewees and that is the knowledge learnt from class and its relevance to the particular field. Therefore with experience or not make a point of writing the form of resumes which entirely suit your career.
David Couper is a career coach and writer who for the last twenty years has worked in Europe, Asia, and in the USA with major organizations including the BBC, Fuji Television, Mattel, Sony, and Warner Bros.
He has successfully coached individuals at all levels including CEOs of major companies wanting a new challenge, frustrated souls wanting to make their dream come true, and front-line employees laid off and desperate to get a job.
David has published seven books. His works on interpersonal skills, counseling in the workplace, and management issues (published by Connaught, Gower, HRD Press, Longman, Macmillan/Pearson Publishing, Oxford University Press) have been translated into Swedish, Polish, and Danish, and published in the UK and the USA.
David has a degree in Communication, a postgraduate qualification in education, is certified in a number of training technologies, and has a Masters in Psychology. He is a member of the American Society of Training and Development, Society of Human Resources Professional, Writers Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television.
He has dual US/UK citizenship and speaks French and Japanese.
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