FYI below are 2 articles to help you complete the 2nd CYATC OPE/SER class assignment to send me your resume. First article discusses information you should include in your resume. The second article discusses differences between chronological and functional resumes. Please read and submit via email what you already have or use info below to put together as much info as possible Resume Template From Alison Doyle, Your Guide to Job Searching. FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! How to Use a Resume Template The following resume template lists the information you need to include on your resume. Use the resume template to generate a list of information to include on your resume, then compile the details from the resume template to format your resume into a customized resume to send to employers. Resume Template Contact Information The first section of your resume should include information on how the employer can contact you. First Last Name Street Address City, State, Zip Phone (Cell/Home) Email Address _object_ive (optional) What do you want to do? If you include this section it should be a sentence or two about your employment goals. A customized _object_ive that describes why you are the perfect candidate for the job can help your resume stand out from the competition. Career Highlights / Qualifications (optional) A customized section of your resume that lists key achievements, skills, traits, and experience relevant to the position for which you are applying can serve dual purposes. It highlights your relevant experience and lets the prospective employer know that you have taken the time to create a resume that shows how you are qualified for the job. Experience This section of your resume includes your work history. List the companies you worked for, dates of employment, the positions you held and a bulleted list of responsibilities and achievements. Company #1 City, State Dates Worked Job _title_ Responsibilities / Achievements Responsibilities / Achievements Company #2 City, State Dates Worked Job _title_ Responsibilities / Achievements Responsibilities / Achievements Education In the education section of your resume, list the colleges you attended, the degrees you attained, and any special awards and honors you earned. College, Degree Awards, Honors Skills Include skills related to the position / career field that you are applying for i.e. computer skills, language skills. References available upon request There is no need to include references on your resume. Rather, have a separate list of references to give to employers upon request. Resume Format Review resume format for writing your resume. Review Resume Samples Review sample resumes so you can incorporate your resume template information into an appropriate format. 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Among jobseekers who should consider a functional format: 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. Career-changers who wish to enter a field very different from what all their previous experience points to. Those with gaps in their work history, such as homemakers who took time to raise and family and now wish to return to the workplace. For them, a chronological format can draw undue attention to those gaps, while a functional resume enables them to portray transferable skills attained through such activities as domestic management and volunteer work. Military transitioners entering a different field from the work they did in the military. Job-seekers whose predominate or most relevant experience has been unpaid, such as volunteer work or college activities (coursework, class projects, extracurricular organizations, and sports). Those who performed very similar activities throughout their past jobs who want to avoid repeating those activities in a chronological job listing. Job-seekers looking for a position for which a chronological listing would make them look overqualified. Older workers seeking to deemphasize a lengthy job history. [Also see our a handy chart on who should use a chronological and who should use a functional format.] If you can look at a chronological resume without a stated career _object_ive and know exactly what field the jobseeker is headed toward and would be good at, then the chronological format probably is working just fine. But if you can't guess what the jobseeker wants to do and would be good at by looking at the chronology of past jobs, a functional format may be indicated. In another article (Strategic Portrayal of Transferable Skills is a Vital Job-search Technique), we talked about a job-changer who wanted to break out of clerical work and get into sales. On her old resume, her skills were listed reverse chronologically, focusing on clerical/secretarial/server aspects. But on her new resume, her experience was arranged around skills clusters related to the new sales career she sought to enter - interpersonal and teamwork skills; customer-service and sales skills; management and supervisory skills; quantitative skills; and computer skills. Click here for another sample of a functional resume. The functional format also can work well for college students because it allows skills attained from experiences other than paid employment to be listed within the skills clusters. For example, one student chose leadership as one of her skills clusters, and she listed the following supporting experiences, none of them paid employment: Leadership Selected as president-elect of Omicron Delta Kappa honorary and vice president of Phi Eta Sigma honorary Acquainted new students with campus as orientation leader Serve as president of residence hall on Residence Hall Council Function as vice president for intellectual development and assistant recruitment chair for social sorority It's true that functional formats have been the subject of some employer backlash is recent years. Some employers are unaccustomed to the functional format, and they may become confused or even irritated by functional resumes. Recruiters/headhunters particularly disdain functional formats, so this approach should never be used if you are primarily targeting recruiters with your job search. Employers in conservative fields, such as banking, finance, and law are not big fans of functional formats, nor are international employers. Functional formats also are not acceptable on many online job boards. Some employers like to know what you did in each job. One solution is to structure your resume in a mostly functional format but include a bare-bones work history in reverse chronological order, creating what is variously known as a chrono-functional, hybrid, or combination format. Such a 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 section. To make your functional resume as reader-friendly as possible for employers, include as much context as you can within each functional de_script_ion. That way, the employer has a better idea of which skill aligns with which job. In the above leadership-skills example, for instance, the student tells where she demonstrated each skill, thus making helping the employer connect her skills with the experience that produced those skills. If you're unsure whether a functional resume is right for you, try it both ways and show the two formats to people in the field you wish to enter. See which one they feel presents your skills more effectively. Questions about some of the terminology used in this article? Get more information (definitions and _link_s) on key college, career, and job-search terms by going to our Job-Seeker's Glossary of Job-Hunting Terms. Katharine Hansen, credentialed career master, is a former speechwriter and college instructor who provides content for Quintessential Careers, edits QuintZine, an electronic newsletter for jobseekers, and prepares job-search correspondence as chief writer for Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters. 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