Professional Resume Advice and Sample ... - Career Services

A great $100K resume can be built on different foundations, each ofwhich highlights a different aspect of the candidate’s career.• A reverse chronological resume emphasizes yourprofessional experience• A functional resume focuses on your skills and qualifications• A resume might start with a Career Summary or anObjective; it might position Education before ProfessionalExperience or vice versa.Think of the resume structure as the “skeleton” that supports theresume’s content and design. Select the right structure that will bestpresent your content to your intended audience and position yourself foryour next opportunity.It would be great if there were a single resume format best for job seekerA versus job seeker B, but each format carries its own implications. We’lladdress many of them in this chapter as we review the following sevenFormat Tools at length:Format Tool #1Prominently Position Your Contact InformationFormat Tool #2Pay Special Attention to the First Half of theFirst PageFormat Tool #3Use a Reverse Chronological Resume FormatMost of the TimeFormat Tool #4Use a Functional Format Only If …CHAPTER 3 : Formatting theProfessional’s Resume48